Boutique Recruitment & Operations Services
Bespoke expertise tailored to the hospitality industry.
Recruitment, operations, admin, management accounting + boundless enthusiasm.
Beginning in the post-lockdown uncertainties of 2021, Yellowbird.London’s mission to help restaurateurs and food business owners fill tummies with goodness began in earnest.
We offer fully tailored, inexpensive recruitment and HR solutions as well as menu costing/stock management practices, sales planning and reporting, plus love, optimism and friendly support.
We’ve quickly proved ourselves useful to our select principle clients, please see our testimonials below. Our continually expanding team are actively consolidating our early successes and are here to help. Please get in touch and let’s see if we can make your worry pile slightly lighter.
Current Clients
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Kanada-Ya
Kanada-Ya is an award winning chain of Ramen bars bringing authentic Japanese flavours to the Capital. They serve mind blowing bowls (I am getting hungry just typing this!)
Our Services:
• Recruited staff of all levels from Kitchen Porter to General Manager. We have so far hired over 40 team members in a highly competitive market.
• Custom sales reporting and Management Accounting.
• Menu costing and planning.
• Set up and administration of MarketMan stock control system.
• Website design, admin and copywriting.
• Design of internal documentation and training materials.
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Machiya
Machiya is a Japanese restaurant near Piccadilly Circus serving some of the finest Asian dishes outside of the motherland. They do crazy things with aubergines that will make you drool!
Our Services:
• Front and Back of House recruitment, we’ve helped them to assemble strong kitchen and waiting teams.
• We worked closely with the Executive Chef to accurately cost all dishes on the menu and identify savings.
• Custom sales reporting and Management Accounting.
• Set up and administration of MarketMan stock control system.
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Fatty Foodie
This group of companies runs several food led operations, including two Kanada-Ya locations under franchise. For the launch of their flagship Westfield location we assembled a brand new team for them, oversaw staff training and development and helped to deliver a successful launch at this premier location.
We also provided much needed logistical support pre and post launch, co-ordinating with steakholders, suppliers, corporate landlords together with building and engineering teams.
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Mao Pao Mini Hot Pot
Firey, authentic Chinese bowls at their first dine in location at Elephant & Castle.
IT network and equipment installation and set up.
POS set up and troubleshooting.
Basic document design.
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Bao!
Bao! is a pre-launch street food stall with a mouth watering menu of steamed pan-Asian delights. We’re pretty sure you’ll be seeing their katsu sliders on socials really soon!
Our Services:
• Supply chain research, planning and negotiation.
• Proof reading of business plan and other documentation.
• Menu costing and portion control.
• Sales forecasting and custom reporting.
• Setting up of Deliveroo, UberEats and JustEat accounts.
• Ad hoc admin tasks.
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Pizzacat
Soon to launch new delivery brand, logo tbc!
As well as bakers of the finest ‘zza, their foCATccia is also amazing!
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Novel
Premium podcast producers boasting many global hits and hundreds of hours of fantastic content.
Our Services:
Video Editing.
Adobe After Effects
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Friends Of Dalmain
Friends Of Dalmain is a South East London charity raising funds to support a local primary school. It’s a wonderful community of parents, carers, school staff and pupils working together to better the lives of families in the area.
Our Services:
• Events planning and hosting.
• Monetising their food offerings at events and fundraisers.
• General administrative support.
• Overseeing the design and installation of a brand new library area of the school.
Testimonials
“We have been working with Yellowbird.London for just under 2 years and have been consistently impressed with Phil’s work across a number of projects.
Like most businesses within the hospitality sector, we faced huge challenges recruiting and retaining quality employees post-Covid. As a result of Phil's dynamism and his ability to adapt to constantly changing market conditions, Kanada Ya was able to build up a full team of high quality, motivated team members whilst many competitors continued to struggle and where others (including large, costly agencies) failed to deliver. As such, I can't recommend Phil and Yellowbird.London highly enough and would encourage any business owner or operator to discuss how they can help your business.”
— Aaron Burgess-Smith, Director of Kanada-Ya UK Ltd.
“The team at Yellowbird.London have been super helpful in getting our first food endeavour off the ground! Lots of great advice about where and how to sell our products, honest opinions and some nifty industry tips! They are always keen to run through new ideas and knock up a helpful spreadsheet along the way. What ever your ideas, this organisation can really help you go for it!”
— Deborah Christophers, Co-Owner of Bao!.
“Phil and his team have been in charge of food offerings at our flagship school fundraising events for several years now. They have taken full ownership of planning and preparing hot food for several hundred visitors, turning tasty dishes around in a short amount of time. They have also created shift rotas as well as managed and briefed volunteers to deliver an excellent experience to our customers. Phil's amazing efforts and budgeting skills helped us to raise much needed funds for Dalmain Primary school. The whole team are enthusiastic, are great planners and organisers and are a pleasure to work with. They are extremely professional and work well under pressure, a much-needed skill when managing a busy kitchen during a big event. I highly recommend Yellowbird.London, he's a great person to work with. Thanks for everything, Phil!”
— Daniela Schichor, Co-Chair, Friends Of Dalmain.
Let’s Chat.
We look forward to learning about you and your business.