Who We Are
We're Restaurant People
In a time of declining food values, Culinary Guide Shop consults for hotel restaurants and hospitality businesses who want to create a better culinary experience for their guests while maintaining a profitable and healthy bottom line.
The Team
thriving ventures.

Dan Latham

James McFarland
Our Philosophy
We’ve grown restaurant groups from one to many by specializing and providing expert guidance on various aspects in the hotel hospitality industry. We strive to run a practice that aims to deliver value and reliability to hotel restaurant ownership and operators.
We find extreme value in supporting better food systems, connecting kitchens with local produce sourcing and clean animal husbandry. This is a large scale holistic intention reaching far beyond the balance sheet.
With a forensic dive into operations, we’ll develop a deep understanding of the scope and needs of your restaruant operations and present solutions to resolve both culinary and operational challenges.
Finally, we believe there is good work in lasting relationships. Fractional leadership is our ongoing partnership program contoured to enable continued maintenance and support to protect the health of your kitchen. It’s a source of leadership created to provide next level support.
At the end of the day we are educators, counsel, teachers, and healers.
We look forward to working with you.