Dominic Ford
Co-Managing Director
Twenty-five years across the London wine trade, the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, Harvey Nichols and Ford Restaurants Limited.
Professional profiles
The Ford McDonald Consultancy team combines board-level food retail experience with restaurant, hotel and kitchen operations. Select a name to read a full background, or contact us to discuss which of us is right for your project.
The team
Pat McDonald
Co-Managing Director
Food retail strategy, product ranging, own-label development and buying for department store food halls.
Kevin Webley
Food and beverage operations, kitchen planning and restaurant project delivery.
Jason Lynas
Restaurant operations, food retail management and hospitality training programmes.
Adam Van den Bussche
Food service operations, product development and culinary project delivery.
Simon Preston
Retail and Marketing
A Michelin star as General Manager at Juniper, then Harvey Nichols restaurants and food markets in Leeds, Edinburgh, Manchester and Dublin.
How we deploy the team
Engagements are led by a director, with specialists brought in for the parts of the project they know best. A restaurant concept and kitchen project is normally led by our operations and design specialists; a food retail or own-label project is led by our buying and ranging side. Because the team is small and senior, the person who scopes your project is the person who delivers it.
See about us for how the consultancy works, or our services for what we deliver.