LEADERS IN SPECIALTY FOODS
We’re a hospitality company with decades of experience in retail markets and fast casual restaurants.
We provide consulting services to established brands and start-ups.
We’re entrepreneurs with our own concepts in development.
Meet Matthew Rutledge, Founding Partner
RAISED in his family’s Continental Delicatessen in Aptos, CA in the 1980s.
STUDIED Culinary Arts in Florence, Italy in 2001.
GRADUATED California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, CA in 2004.
MULTI-UNIT Leader, Whole Foods Market Mid Atlantic, led 19 teams in 2014.
CERTIFIED Cheese Professional by the American Cheese Society in 2015.
PROMOTED to Regional Senior Operations Leader, Whole Foods Market Northeast, leading 38 teams in 2017, growing to 52 teams in 2022.
GRADUATED CUNY, Bachelor of Science in Business in 2018.
INDUCTED into the Guild Internationale des Fromagers in 2018.
LAUNCHED Rutledge Continental in 2023.
