Phoenix3 Collective
Culinary & Experience  ·  Nutrition  ·  Operational Excellence  ·  Activation
The Pass · Phoenix3 Collective

One operating model.
Four workstreams.
One Collective.

The hub creates the programs, standards, tools, training, and measurement. Every Phoenix3 Collective brand delivers them every day. CrossCheck verifies independently.

This is the single source of truth for the enterprise Culinary & Experience organization across every Phoenix3 Collective brand, including Restaura, Culinour, Infuse, and QCS. Choose a workstream to find its standards, programs, documents, and the person to call.

Scratch-MadeFood as MedicineResponsibly SourcedDignified HospitalityMeasured · Verified · Proven
New QCS joins The Pass·Quality Culinary Solutions is now a live Brand Culinary Experience for self-operated senior living, and Food Safety SOP pages now cover all four brands: Restaura, Culinour, Infuse, and QCS. Open
Why we call it
The Pass
“Go to the Pass.”

The Pass is the kitchen operations station where every plate crosses. It symbolizes central authority, a quality checkpoint, and the integration of culinary, operations, consumer experience, and nutrition flowing through one gateway.

Nothing leaves a great kitchen without crossing the pass, and nothing reaches our diners without crossing this one: every standard, program, document, and training. When a team member needs an answer, the direction is always the same. Go to the Pass.

Choose your workstream

Four departments. One standard.

Each door opens to the workstream's mission, its programs, its document library, and its owner.

Workstream 01

Culinary & Experience

Where the brand promise becomes a plate.

Culinary standards and innovation, and the B2C experience portfolio: Provisions TO GO, promotions and LTOs, restaurant rotation, observance programming, showcases, and the Consumer Experience function.

Culinary standards and innovationProvisions TO GO and retail merchandisingLTO and promotional planningRestaurant rotation
Patrick FordPete RukuleGreg ReevesCXPatrick Ford · Pete Rukule · Greg Reeves · Director of CX (open)
Enter
Workstream 02

Nutrition, Health & Wellbeing

Clinical credibility that protects every diner.

Clinical nutrition standards, menu nutritional governance, IDDSI and The Dignified Plate, food-as-medicine programming, teaching kitchens and RD pop-ups.

Clinical nutrition standardsMenu nutritional governanceIDDSI and The Dignified Plate clinical frameworkFood-as-medicine programming
Camille Finn, MS RD LDNCamille Finn
Enter
Workstream 03

Operational Excellence

One closed loop: standards, assessment, correction, coaching.

Menu management and platform governance, standards and playbooks, audit and continuous improvement, food-cost discipline, and the food safety program.

Menu management and platform governanceStandards and playbooksAudit and continuous improvementFood-cost discipline
Elliott SoomreElliott Soomre
Enter
Workstream 04

Activation

From award to the day-90 exit, on a countdown.

Openings and mobilizations run as a gated lifecycle from award through a day-90 handoff to operations.

New · Communication NetworkOpenings and mobilizationsThe gated lifecycle: award to day-90 exitTransferred-team onboardingMenu continuity through opening
John SidorakisJohn Sidorakis
Enter
Always on

Phoenix3 Academy

Talent is the compounding asset.

Training, certification, and culinary development for every brand: the Galley Training Center, Menu Planning 101, and Kosher 101 are live now, with the credential ladder and brand immersion rolling out behind them.

Enter
The promise chain

Who does what, in one line

Marketing
defines and communicates the brand promise
Culinary & Experience
designs the experience and the standards behind it
Operations
delivers it, every meal, every day
CrossCheck
verifies it independently

When an experience is not delivered at an account, accountability is unambiguous: the account team and its brand leadership own the delivery failure and the fix; the hub owns whether the standard, tool, training, and measurement were sufficient; CrossCheck's independent audit tells us which of the two it was.

The Enterprise Experience Scoreboard

Six KPIs decide. Department metrics diagnose.

The hub is accountable for the instrument, the standard, and the support; the operating-company adoption leader is accountable for the result in their business.

KPI 01
Diner satisfaction
Enterprise diner satisfaction / NPS through one voice-of-diner platform; journey-level, not touchpoint
KPI 02
Participation
Meals per resident or patient day, venue traffic, program attendance
KPI 03
Retail performance
Provisions TO GO and retail revenue, margin, attachment rate
KPI 04
Program adoption
Share of accounts live on enterprise programs to standard
KPI 05
Service recovery
Resolution time and repeat-issue rate
KPI 06
Experience audit performance
CrossCheck audit scores and corrective-action closure rate
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From the Chief Culinary Officer & EVP Operations Excellence

Why The Pass is built this way

Matthew Thompson, Chief Culinary Officer and EVP Operations Excellence
Matthew Thompson
MBA, WCMC, MWMCS, PCIII, CEC, CCA, GRAE
Chief Culinary Officer & EVP Operations Excellence, Phoenix3 Collective

The Phoenix3 Culinary Framework tells us what we believe: Real Food, Real Hospitality, Real Impact. The Pass is how we make it operationally true. Four departments now carry that work across every brand: Culinary & Experience designs the food and the experience; Nutrition, Health & Wellbeing makes nutrition a differentiator and protects every diner; Operational Excellence makes the standard the easiest thing to do; Activation opens new business so well that day one feels like year three. Every standard here is auditable. Every program has an owner. If you cannot find what you need, the contact on each page is the right first call.

Much Respect! MT
PHOENIX3 COLLECTIVE
Restaura · Culinour · Infuse · QCS
Real Food. Real Hospitality. Real Impact.
The Pass · where every plate crosses. Go to the Pass.