Why work with Mouthfull?
Why outsource production?
The old adage of ‘Jack of all trades, king of non’ is as true now as the day it was first uttered. Ultimately outsourcing production to a specialist manufacturer or Central Production Unit (CPUs) allows businesses to truly focus on the key fundamentals that sets them apart from the chasing pack whilst both gaining financially and ensuring consistency.
Focus on fundamentals
Outsourcing production enables food chains to focus on their core strength. For instance, the key focus for a burger chain to set itself apart would be to cook an excellent burger every time and exceptional customer service. By outsourcing the production of their buns to a bakery and their sauces to a sauce manufacturer, the Burger chain is keeping its operation simple and is able to focus on the necessities.
Consistency
Customers demand the same exact meal every time they reorder their favourite menu item. This challenge is hard enough when the same chef is trying to replicate a recipe during a busy Friday night service. The challenge is impossible when trying to ensure consistency across a rapidly expanding national chain. This consistency is a CPUs key focus and is achieved by rigorous staff training, production controls, product testing and advanced manufacturing equipment.
Financial Stability
The biggest creator of cost in a business is complexity. A CPU can easily remove the hassle of making 20+ recipe SKUs from a single restaurant chain. These 20 different recipes can result in well over 100 different ingredients to manage. And this is before you begin to factor in the personnel and equipment required to produce these recipes. By outsourcing this production to CPUs you gain from their scales of economy through bulk purchasing and manufacturing to ultimately end up with a cheaper product before you begin to factor in the costs saved internally.
Technical compliance
Food safety is the absolute priority at Mouthfull and our robust standards of technical compliance are rigorously enforced, monitored and maintained. Mouthfull has both BRC: Start accreditation and EU supplier approval. The standards required for this is monitored and upheld our by both our internal and external food safety management team.
Fundamentals of our Food Safety Protocol are:
Highly qualified internal food safety management team
External food safety experts that constantly challenge and improve our systems
Strict and rigorous control on all suppliers and ingredients entering our supply chain
Fully documented procedures & detailed quality controls at each stage of the manufacturing process
Raw, work-in progress and final product testing and assessment
Regular external laboratory testing on all existing and new product lines.
How we work
1: Menu Brainstorm
The food development and sales team at Mouthfull will work with you to develop ideas and themes for your new ranges and products.
2: Recipe development
The food development team will work from our state-of-the-art recipe development kitchen to develop trial samples.
3: Sampling & initial costings
These initial samples will be shown on site along with draft costings and draft specifications.
4: Final samples
The samples will be reworked as many times as necessary based on feedback from the customer to create the perfect recipe.
5: Sourcing ingredients & final costing
Once samples are approved, the experienced Mouthfull procurement team work tirelessly to secure the best price and quality of product possible from accredited suppliers.
6: Production Trials
Large factory production trials are then conducted and presented to the client for approval.
7: Technical Compliance
Our internal technical team will then produce technical specifications, quality assurance specifications and laboratory tests.
8: Product Launch
Once all the hard work has been done to prepare the product, our fantastic production staff then roll out the product launch under the watchful eye of our recipe development staff and technical teams.