Center for Culinary Development & Innovation (CCDI)

Food and Beverage ServicesMichigan, United States11-50 Employees

The Center for Culinary Development & Innovation (CCDI) operates within the food and beverage services sector, focusing on culinary-inspired product development and innovation. Its offerings help clients identify market opportunities, shape early-stage concepts, and plan portfolios that translate ideas into market-ready products, with processes that span trend analysis, concept ideation, and commercialization guidance. CCDI serves a range of customers including packaged goods companies, restaurants, and the broader food service industry, addressing the need for distinct, chef-informed concepts and practical roadmaps for development, testing, and market entry. Based in Battle Creek, Michigan, CCDI functions as the culinary innovation division of JPG Resources, a network aimed at making ideas viable, scalable, and profitable. The organization describes itself as leveraging a structured Food Vision® approach to uncover whitespace opportunities and to curate horizons-based product roadmaps from inspiration through to prototypes and consumer validations. In recent developments, CCDI announced a partnership with JPG Resources in September 2023 to expand its chef-inspired innovation and commercialization services.

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