Integrated food and hospitality consulting · India
Core Food Consult brings engineering, product innovation, market development, export compliance and funding advisory under one roof, led by a hospitality and food business strategist and a Chartered Accountant qualified in India and the UAE.
Our core function: one partner across the entire food value chain — we build it, run it, sell it and fund it.
Who we are
Most food businesses juggle separate consultants for setup, licensing, marketing and finance, and lose time and money in the gaps between them. Core Food Consult was built to close those gaps — a specialized, integrated firm helping food manufacturers, exporters, agri-processors, startups and hospitality businesses build sustainable, scalable and globally competitive enterprises.
We bring decades of hands-on experience in food technology, engineering, regulatory compliance, financial strategy and market development under one roof — a true end-to-end solution. Our two founders have spent their careers on opposite sides of the same table: one running hotels and kitchens, the other structuring the finance and compliance behind them.
C·O·R·E is not just a name. It is the structure of the firm.
What we do
Start with any single practice or engage the full bench. Every practice is led by the founders directly.
Practice · Engineering
Plant and kitchen design, machinery selection, layout, capacity planning and commissioning for processing units, cloud kitchens, restaurants and hotels. We design for hygiene compliance and unit economics from day one.
Practice · Innovation
Recipe development, shelf life and packaging, private label creation and sourcing aggregation. We take a product from idea to a shelf-ready SKU with the costing to survive retail margins.
Practice · Markets
Distribution strategy, retail and HoReCa placement, pricing, brand positioning and launch execution across Indian and international markets.
Practice · Compliance
FSSAI licensing, import export code, APEDA registration, labelling standards and complete export documentation so your product clears both Indian and destination-market regulators.
Practice · Capital
Project reports, financial modelling, government scheme and subsidy mapping, bank and investor readiness, led by a Chartered Accountant qualified in India and the UAE.
Why partner with us
The value of one accountable partner across the whole value chain, instead of five disconnected vendors.
One partner for product, operations, finance and market strategy, so nothing falls through the gaps between vendors.
We have built, operated and scaled food and hospitality businesses from the ground up, not just advised on them.
From concept to commercialization, compliance and global market expansion, through every stage in between.
Seamless navigation of FSSAI, GST, income tax, APEDA and international trade law.
Access to funding sources and government schemes to fuel your growth.
Technology and automation
A food business fails in the gaps between its consultants. We removed the gaps.The founding principle of Core Food Consult
Connecting globally
From a unit in Rajasthan to a shelf in Dubai or Frankfurt, with the compliance and partners to get there.
Connecting globally
A note from the directors
Two careers, one conviction: food businesses deserve one accountable partner, not five disconnected vendors.
Co-Founder · Hospitality & Food Business Strategist
My work has been building and running food and hospitality businesses from the ground up — commercial kitchen design and food engineering, product innovation, brand development, operational strategy and market penetration. Along the way I have watched good founders lose money not because their food was wrong, but because their layout, their costing or their compliance was.
Core Food Consult exists so the next founder does not learn those lessons the expensive way. When we take on your project, you get the judgement of an operator who has done the work, not a slide deck.
Pankaj Saxena
Co-Founder · Chartered Accountant (India & UAE)
In chartered practice across India and the UAE, I have seen the same pattern repeat: a strong food product held back by weak paperwork — the subsidy nobody applied for, the export order lost to a missing registration, the loan rejected because the project report was written by someone who had never seen a production floor.
My role at Core Food Consult is to make the numbers and the compliance as strong as the product — direct and indirect taxation, corporate finance, investment advisory and regulatory navigation — so that when a buyer, a bank or an investor arrives, you are ready on paper as well as in the kitchen.
Dinesh Agarwal
How we work
A free conversation to understand your business, stage and goals. No obligation.
We identify the gaps and opportunities and propose a defined scope with clear deliverables.
We work hands-on alongside your team, on the floor and on the paperwork, not from a distance.
Your team is trained to run what we built together, with support that continues after handover.
Industries
Free resources
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Client words
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FAQ
We are an integrated consulting firm for food and hospitality businesses, covering engineering and production setup, product innovation, market development, export and regulatory compliance, and funding advisory. One partner across the entire value chain.
Food processing units, restaurants, cloud kitchens, hotels, FMCG brands, agribusinesses and exporters. We work with first time founders and with established businesses expanding into new products or markets.
Yes. Compliance is one of our five core practices. We handle FSSAI licensing, import export code, APEDA registration and the documentation needed to ship food from India to international markets.
Yes. We prepare project reports and financial models, map government schemes and subsidies, and support conversations with banks and investors. The practice is led by a Chartered Accountant qualified in India and the UAE.
Our head office is in Jaipur, Rajasthan. We serve clients across India and support expansion into the UAE, the wider Middle East, Europe and North America.
With a free discovery call. We understand your business, identify gaps and opportunities, and only then propose a scope of work. There is no obligation attached to the first conversation.
Yes. We build and manage websites, WhatsApp and ordering automation, AI call handling, social media and custom software, scoped specifically for food and agribusiness operations.
Get in touch
Tell us where your business stands. We will tell you honestly whether and how we can help.