Research Team

As consultants, Epicurus provides a wide range of services in the area of accountancy. Though we do not serve as any client’s accountants, we provide our clients with the resources needed to structure a sophisticated, efficient and productive financial services division. This affords each client with cost-effective internal accounting services that have the resources to produce maximum financial benefit to the company.

Banks lend funds to credit-worthy individuals and businesses for the development, expansion or acquisition of enterprises as a normal part of their daily operation. However, banks or securities companies rarely have the ability or need to hire in-house analysts able to properly evaluate those enterprises. Because the banks can’t obtain a fair, objective and educated analysis about such operations, the banks are often hesitant to lend to many of those companies. Epicurus can provide banks with an outsourced, independent, confidential third-party review of a business plan for a company of any size and provide the bank with detailed, scored analysis allowing the bank’s underwriters to properly evaluate the applicant company’s ability for success, ensuring that the management has a full understanding of all the nuances of the enterprise.

A well-planned and implemented beverage service is as important as the quality of your foodservice operation and can be your leading profit center. If not properly managed, beverage service may become your biggest loss leader; one that could diminish every aspect of your operation. Utilizing our experience in this key area will result in substantial increases in revenue, profit, customer retention and satisfaction. Establishing a quality beverage operation can also identify your facility as a destination center for all levels of entertaining, catering and successful special events. Through decades of experience we have put together a network of consultants, specializing in different areas of beverage operations. With our network on your team, we can create a customized beverage operation accounting for every aspect of your operations needs. Fruit juices and flavored waters, soft drinks and spirits all demand outstanding flavor systems. For every type of beverage, Epicurus can provide the ideal taste consumers crave.

Epicurus is second to none in our dedication to proper documentation for our clients. From the simplest forms to complex manuals and policy statements, our professionals are prepared to generate serious, quality materials for your business. Our diverse expertise allows us to generate documents in a wide range of subjects. We’ve written on every conceivable subject from accounting to zoology in our three decades of operation.

The real question is whether a client plans to be a success or a statistic. If they\'ve planned anything at all, that is. Most businesses fail because they have no plan. Hardly any of the businesses which fail annually spent the time necessary to write a business plan and conduct essential due diligence to determine the proper path to success.

With an increasing appetite for initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic transactions, CEOs have an opportunity to revisit their business portfolios and consider some lessons from the recent past. Our Corporate Finance practice is highly rated as an adviser to both companies and sponsors on domestic and international equity offerings. We act for companies, individuals, institutions and advisers on private acquisitions and disposals, where our specialists from throughout the firm provide seamless advice.

Shareholder expectations and management performance are measured constantly, making it critical for financial institutions of all kinds to produce improved results quarterly. This pressure on management and staff often produces positive results, but frequently, mistakes are made.

At Epicurus we believe that in the restaurant business, quality must be paramount when it comes to customer service. Any restaurant serving mediocre food will soon find itself on its way to bankruptcy.We are committed to providing our clients with the best possible recipes, using fresh, high-quality ingredients, yet remaining vigilant on the matter of cost.

Rapidly growing companies often experience considerable stress on infrastructure. Redesigning key processes can help sustain growth over the long term, achieving efficiencies, improving cash flow and maintaining profitability. Our business performance improvement services include operations performance improvement, chargeback management services, hour and wage solutions, and merger integration services.

Creating and executing a plan to develop and maintain positive guest relations should always be customized, even within chain properties. Each location, whether a hotel, restaurant or other hospitality enterprise will have it’s own unique attributes and features that you’ll want to feature in building that audience. Planning the program also requires an individual understanding of the property’s audience. Different cultural, ethnic or religious core audiences require special planning.

In today’s complex court cases, attorneys require significant support resources. Our expert witnesses are capable of providing a wide range of services to law firms or prosecutors. With an extensive array of expertise, Epicurus is capable of providing such services as forensic accounting and lab analysis.

Issues of national pride and homeland security are additional challenges facing an industry grappling with deregulation and consolidation. Increasing pressures to perform forcing executives to look at how to achieve scale, define business scopes, and manage increasingly complex global networks.

Frequently, companies will be faced with the inability to directly manage a significant division, unit or subsidiary for lack of the proper manpower or simply because that unit is outside the company’s normal operational focus. In such cases, companies often face several difficult options: whether to sell the unit; to close it; or to engage a management company to run it for them.

Epicurus’ Marketing & Sales Practice draws on global resources to build substantial, profitable growth through superior marketing. We bring highly experienced marketing professionals and state-of-the-art knowledge, both closely connected to Epicurus’ industry and client expertise.

Epicurus is prepared to assist your firm in selecting the most suitable and marketable property for your next project. Whether a full scale hotel, boutique hotel, motel, inn, restaurant, cafe, bistro or retail food shop… or even an Internet café, Epicurus can find the most applicable location with the best market share and the best possible visibility and traffic flow. We can assist from location through full construction and operation of the property. EPICURUS has worked in the past with real estate brokers internationally to identify suitable locations on a global scale for our clientele. We’ve worked with architects around the world to develop properties.

Epicurus maintains relationships with laboratories and research facilities to develop food and beverage products for our clients. Epicurus’ Analytical and Food Chemistry Departments place at your disposal an array of modern analytical equipment and a skilled and dedicated professional staff with extensive experience in the analysis of a broad spectrum of products.

In today’s economy, public relations is an essential component of almost every business. Our Public Relations Group serves our clients in a variety of ways, bringing their message to public forums such as news media, entertainment media and other audience centers.

For guests, the restaurant industry has never looked this good. Food is better than it’s ever been, with an abundance of quality chefs creating spectacular cuisine and an increasing range of products for them to work with. But for restaurateurs, under relentless cost pressures and facing rising demands, the outlook is less than rosy. Entering into, or operating within the restaurant industry today, requires an in-depth knowledge of more than 20,000 varying subjects. It is impossible for one owner, or even the best chefs to know everything required of them. The difference between engaging a qualified consultancy and attempting to do it all yourself is the difference between success and failure, respectively.

Strategic outcomes cannot be predetermined, despite a company’s best intentions. Strategy, instead, is most effective when companies develop a portfolio of initiatives that are coherent and evolve.

The Epicurus Institute handles all our studies and research, providing our clients with comprehensive work that is inevitably helpful to their business or organization.

One of our most critical areas of expertise, the field of economics and research in that subject provide our clients with defined, accurate analysis of financial conditions that can help their business move forward, even in tough times.

Today, even a business operating exclusively on Main Street must be aware of world affairs. In a global marketplace, products sitting on the shelves of American retail shops come from around the globe. Things happening clear around the planet may affect a business on any American Main Street.