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THE MISE GROUP

The Mise Group is a uniquely blACK OWNED food, restaurant & chef focused management company specializing in helping small restaurants, chefs & food entrepreneurs get everything in place. Taken from the classic French culinary term mise en place, meaning everything in its place, The Mise Group strives to provide the hands on help, organization & creative ideas that the food industry craves. We specialize in small restaurants, food businesses, food concepts & independent chefs.

WHAT WE DO

 We help you, the buzzing restaurant, the favorite food brand and the independent chef get through your busy day. From editing menus, to updating your website to implementing a corkage fee or brainstorming & naming your new concept, The Mise Group helps get everything in its place. 

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In the end, what’s most meaningful is creating positive, uplifting outcomes for human experiences and human relationships. Business, like life, is all about how you make people feel. It’s that simple, and it’s that hard. .

/  danny meyer, restaurateur and the Ceo of the Union Square Hospitality Group/

I’M CHRISTOPHER.

I have worked in restaurants my entire life. From the uber popular celebrity chef restaurant to the tiny coffee shop on the corner, I have had my hands in a lot of different aspects of driving a business. With the influence of my late grandfather, a former chef and my love for spending my free time in any restaurant, I graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY and worked my way through the ranks to becoming Executive Chef at 25. 

No matter what the job or dining experience, I noticed that all restaurants & chefs are the same in one aspect. There are just never enough hands on staff. Never enough people to change the website, or print menus, or even make sure the restaurants addresses are correct and visible in a search engine. That's where I come in at and also why I created The Mise Group. The Mise Group is here to help the amazingly delicious restaurant and the laser sharp focused chef & creator get everything in place for success.

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"I used to think the skills my mother and grandmother had were small and insignificant, because the world taught me that black food was small and insignificant. But now I realize what we contribute to food in America is vast. Right now that’s all I want to cook, and I want to cook it on a level that resonates with me, beyond whether it tastes good.”"

/  mashama bailey, chef, author & restaurateur,  /

WHAT WE VALUE

helping others. We value people who naturally want to be themselves & create genuinely amazing things, while understanding that there just aren't enough hours in the day.