Restaurant Clients

Food & Drink Resources (FDR) collaborates with many of the nation’s top restaurant chains on recipe development, menu development, and restaurant concept development. We also work with leading contract management and lodging companies as well as food services for the airline and cruise industries in recipe and menu development.

  • 99 Restaurant Group
  • AMC Theatres
  • Applebee’s
  • Arby’s
  • Au Bon Pain
  • Bertucci’s
  • Bad Ass Coffee of Hawaii
  • Bad Daddy Burger
  • Bibibop
  • Bob Evans
  • Bonanza Steakhouse
  • Bonefish Grill
  • Boston Market
  • Brinker
  • Buffalo Wild Wings
  • Burger Monger
  • Cadence Kitchen
  • California Pizza Kitchen
  • Captain D’s
  • Caribou Coffee
  • Carinos Italian
  • Carraba’s
  • Cedars Wood Fire Grill
  • Champps Americana
  • Checkers Drive-In
  • Chuck E. Cheese
  • Charleys
  • Cicis Pizza
  • Coco’s
  • Consumer Capital Group
  • Corner Bakery Café
  • Costco
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
  • CTI
  • Culvers
  • Custom Fit Meals
  • Darden
  • Dave & Buster’s
  • Denny’s
  • Dicky’s
  • Dream Dinners
  • Fajita Pete’s Franchising
  • Fazoli’s
  • First Watch
  • Fox N Hounds
  • Freebirds World Burrito
  • Friendly’s
  • Frisch’s Big Boy
  • Garbanzo Med. Grill
  • Genghis Grill
  • Ground Round
  • Houlihan’s
  • Ignite Restaurant Group
  • IHG
  • IHOP
  • Jack In The Box
  • Lennys
  • Logan’s Roadhouse
  • Lone Star Steakhouse
  • Long John Silvers
  • Lou Malnati’s
  • Luna Grill
  • Main Event Management
  • Merzi
  • Mimi’s Cafe
  • Morning Story
  • Next Bite
  • Norm’s Restaurants
  • Not Your Average Joe’s
  • O’Charleys
  • Olga’s
  • On The Border
  • Panera
  • Pei Wei
  • Peter Piper Pizza
  • Pizza Inn – Pie Five
  • Planet Hollywood
  • Ponderosa Steakhouse
  • Quiznos
  • Razoo’s Cajun Café
  • Red Robin
  • Rock Bottom Restaurants
  • Rock n Roll Sushi
  • Romano’s Macaroni Grill
  • Ruby Tuesday
  • Schlotzsky’s
  • Scratch Kitchen
  • Shari’s
  • Shoney’s
  • Snooze AM Eatery
  • Stan’s Tacos
  • Starbucks
  • TSFR Apple Ventures
  • Taco John’s
  • Taco Mac
  • TGI Fridays
  • The Den
  • The Egg & I
  • Tokyo Joe’s
  • Tony Romas
  • Tricky Fish
  • Uncle Julio’s
  • Uno’s Pizzeria
  • Untamed Brands
  • Wing Stop
  • Whataburger
  • V DTLA
  • Z’Tejas

C-Store Clients

In addition to working with multi-location restaurant brands, FDR has a strong relationship with several convenience store chains. While working with c-stores, we develop extraordinary and workable foodservice solutions that elevate the chain’s current offerings to make individual retail locations a culinary destination.

  • 7-Eleven
  • Casey’s
  • Circle K
  • Kwik Trip
  • Sheetz
  • Thorntons
  • Wawa

Consumer Research Clients

FDR conducts consumer research at the FDR Innovation Center in Denver, Colorado. In our 10,000-square-foot space, we have two test kitchens, a test bar, conference rooms of various sizes, plus focus group rooms, and CLT booths. FDR is fully equipped to complete chef-driven recipe development, product/menu development, brand positioning, and consumer research. Here you’ll see a shortlist of some brands who have used the FDR space to complete consumer research.

  • 7-Eleven
  • Brookdale
  • Caribou Coffee
  • Circle K
  • Field Work
  • High Plains Bison
  • IHOP® Breakfast
  • Jack & Annie’s
  • McCain Foods
  • Noodles & Company
  • Phillips Foods
  • Qdoba
  • Taco John’s
  • Thorntons
  • Tricky Fish
  • Vitamix

Food and Drink Manufacturing Clients

Food and drink manufacturers trust FDR to innovate, prove, and sell products. We work with our manufacturing partners on consumer research in our commercial test kitchen, product development, and manufactured food product sales.

  • Andros
  • Aryzta
  • Bakery Cos
  • BackerHaus
  • Barilla
  • Bel Brands
  • Beso Del Sol Sangria
  • Buddy’s Fruits
  • Bush’s Best
  • Cadence Gourmet
  • Carla’s Pasta
  • Clearwater
  • Cloverdale Foods
  • Coast Seafood USA
  • Colorado Premium
  • Crestone Group
  • Culinary Focus
  • Cuisine Solutions
  • Cusano’s Baking Company
  • Custom Foods
  • Custom Foods of America
  • Damascus
  • Darifair
  • Dean Foods
  • Deen Meat + Cooked Foods
  • Del Monte Foods
  • Dianne’s Fine Desserts
  • Direct Food Service
  • Dole Packaged Foods
  • Donna Italia
  • Duchess
  • E. Formella & Sons, Inc.
  • Encore Foods
  • Epicurian Butter
  • Fairmont Foods
  • Flower Foods
  • Fresh Food Group
  • Fry Foods
  • Gator Pears
  • Girard’s Dressing & Plochmans Mustards
  • Golden Cannoli Shell Co.
  • Golding Farms
  • Great Lakes Grilling Co.
  • Grecian Delight
  • HappiFoodi
  • High Plains Bison
  • Highliner Foods
  • J&J Snacks
  • JMH
  • JSL Foods Inc.
  • Just Quality International
  • Kashi
  • Katz
  • Kontos
  • Le Bakery France
  • Lotus Energy Drinks
  • Maple Leaf Foods
  • Michael’s Bakery Products
  • Milkadamia
  • Nate’s Fine Foods
  • National Deli
  • National Food & Beverage
  • National Steak + Poultry
  • Nutrition53
  • Oatly
  • Passport Food Group
  • Pepsi
  • Pernod Ricard USA
  • Phillip Foods
  • Pirouline
  • Pittman Seafoods
  • Plush Puffs
  • Polidori Sausage
  • Precise Food Ingredients
  • Ready Foods
  • RTE
  • Sadlers BBQ
  • Saputo Foodservice
  • Samazon
  • Sargento
  • Sartori
  • Seascape
  • Schuman Cheese
  • Skotidakis
  • Smithfield
  • Smoke House Jerky
  • Southern Belle
  • Sun Orchard
  • Sun Rich Fresh Foods
  • Sunny Sky Products
  • Sure Lean Foods
  • SupHerb
  • Sweet Ballz
  • Syracuse Sausage Company
  • TNT Breads
  • Tattoo Sauces
  • Tender Belly
  • Tenzo Matcha
  • Tipiak
  • Torani
  • Traiteur de Paris
  • Turano
  • Wald Family Foods
  • Wenner Bread Products
  • White Toque Frozen Food
  • Whole Fresh Food

Food Board and Commission Clients

Our culinary team can support food boards and commissions in a variety of ways including recipe development and chef ambassadorships.

  • California Strawberry Commission
  • Cranberry Marketing Committee
  • Hass Avocado Board
  • National Mango Board
  • National Onion Association
  • The Idaho Potato Commission
  • Watermelon Board

Nutritional Analysis Clients

FDR works with manufacturers and restaurants to complete nutritional analysis for use on menus and menu boards.

Packaging, Personal Protective Equipment, and Technology Clients

  • Cecilia Tech Inc
  • Zorzees