Claudia V.

Bilingual Chef Consultant | Kitchen Systems & Operational Clarity

Overview: ➡️ I've worked every kitchen role — line cook, manager, owner, and consultant. Now I help food businesses stop fighting fires and start running on systems — remotely. What I actually do: ✅ Diagnose your real systems — I document how you actually operate, then redesign what's broken. ✅ Standardize recipes (in grams, bilingual, usable) — clear, visual recipe cards in English and Spanish. ✅ Build kitchen SOPs — step-by-step prep flows, assembly guides, and checklists. ✅ Create ingredient, allergen, and nutrition databases — organized and ready to use. ✅ Redesign menus for clarity and profit — structure, pricing, flow, and language. ✅ Troubleshoot recipes — costing issues, consistency problems, scaling failures. ✅ Document systems for scaling, delegation, or sale — operations manuals for growth or exit. ✅ Optimize and audit restaurant POS backend architecture (including Toast, Clover, and Square) to align with inventory costing. My background: 👩🏻‍🍳 Trained chef — culinary school graduate. 👩🏻‍🍳 Worked every kitchen role: line cook → manager → owner → consultant. 👩🏻‍🍳 Owned and operated food businesses in Mexico for 6+ years (custom cakes + Pakistani food dark kitchen). 👩🏻‍🍳 Co-founded NAWAOPS, a restaurant operations consulting firm — including leading the opening of a restaurant in Spain. 👩🏻‍🍳 Co-wrote the "Systems Clarity Guide" for restaurant owners. What I believe: ➡️Your team isn't bad. They just don't have systems that support them. That's not their fault — it's the owner's responsibility to fix. I help you fix it. How I work (remotely): ➡️ You send me your current recipes, videos, or notes. I ask focused questions. I deliver clean, usable documentation — visual, clear, no fluff. This is for you if: ✅ Recipes come out different every time ✅ Your kitchen runs on memory, not systems ✅ You're tired of fighting the same fires every week ✅ You want to scale, delegate, or sell — but don't have documentation ✅ Your team speaks English and Spanish, and things get lost in translation Let's talk. ➡️ Send me a message. In our first 20-minute conversation, I'll identify your biggest system gap and tell you exactly how I'd solve it.