Creating Your Business and Building in its Measured Success

Smile Consulting is a cutting-edge, female-founded, consulting company specializing in restaurant development. Our clients define themselves as unique, forward-thinking, highly individualistic, chef-driven, profit-focused businesses with beautifully crafted food.

After growing up in the restaurant industry and attending Le Cordon Blue in Paris, FR, Caroline’s career has gone on to include starting 21 businesses, 16 restaurants and working in food and beverage for catering, hotels, night clubs, bars, festivals, every type of restaurant, even launching a food tech start-up.

She has worked with many Michelin starred chefs, TV celebrity chefs, James Beard Award winners, and internationally at some of the finest hotels and restaurants in America and Europe. Chefs and Restaurateurs she has worked with include Dominique Crenn, David Chang, Sean Brock, Danny Meyer, Alex Guarnaschelli, Duff Goldman, Bobby Flay, Rick Bayless, Joe Bastianich, Tom Colicchio, Ziggy Marley, Mario Batali, April Bloomfield, Matty Matheson, the list goes on….

Leading the industry, Caroline’s designs have become iconic including railway wine bars, modern speakeasies, experiential and quick-serve dining, sophisticated dining experiences and trendy gastropubs.

Caroline built New York City’s first large scale wine bar, OTTO enoteca pizzeria, America’s first Gastropub, The Spotted Pig, and was a Founding Member, Food Manager and National Chef Liaison of one of the largest food and wine festivals in the country, Charleston Wine + Food for its inaugural five years.

More recently in California she has opened two experiential dining restaurants, a cat cafe, Catmosphere and a ping-pong pizzeria Topspin, and a modern speakeasy and lounge, Scarlet. She is currently opening a juice/açai/coffee bar, Little Juice, in the resort town of Harbor Springs, MI and moving a pop-up Detroit-style pizzeria to a brick and mortar in California.

She has worked in F&B in New Mexico, Virginia, Washington DC, Charleston, Palm Beach, Michigan, New York City, Los Angeles and Orange county and has extensive knowledge of American, Italian, French, Spanish, Australian and New Zealand wines.

What sets her apart:

Your financial success.

Celebrity chef development and liaisons.

Setting design trends in the industry.

Creating highly-rated Michelin starred restaurants.

Knowledge of popular markets, areas, trends and hidden spots.

Sourcing artisan food and makers as well as restaurant-ready recipe development.

Design of experiential environments and experiences.

Building your success every step of the way for your unique brand.

Bringing to market the cutting-edge in hospitality, food and wine.

Smile Consulting has the expertise to work across the board, from first-time owners who need help navigating the ever-changing complexities of getting their ideas to market, to seasoned professionals who want a partner who can help take their business to the next level.