MYA’s pioneering approach goes beyond the normal client brief, challenging traditional ideas and concepts. We work with our clients to achieve a vision and design that delivers a real ‘wow’ factor and creates long-lasting partnerships.
Andrew Rolfe, Domestic Bursar, Corpus Christi College
I have found MYA to be highly professional having delivered new kitchen projects, staffing and structural assessments and assessments of purchasing and pricing tasks.
The staff and management of MYA are highly professional, committed and dedicated to any task they take on. They have worked through some unpopular (to staff) programmes which have come out of the change programme extremely well. Almost everything suggested by MYA worked and worked well.
The rare occasion when a suggestion was seen not to work was met with great flexibility by MYA who worked with staff to produce an alternative workable solution.
If you need a catering consultant MYA would be my call of choice on every occasion.
Philip Waddy, Partner, West Waddy ADP
I have worked with MYA Consulting on two projects for Our Lady’s Senior School Abingdon, the first being a reimagining of the main catering facility for the full school to enable an expanding school roll and the other an alternative café-style offer for senior students and staff.
The spatial constraints on the school’s main kitchen and dining facilities were considerable and MYA used creativity and experience to create additional seating capacity while at the same time reducing the space requirements of the catering equipment and back of house facilities. The school had originally considered a significant and costly extension to generate sufficient space for the increased student cohort. MYA Consulting were able to demonstrate that by re-configuring the catering offer, including a separate café-style opportunity for senior staff, the entire remodelling could be undertaken within the footprint of the existing building.
The first phase of delivery is now complete with the café-bar facility located within the main school reception area having proved a roaring success, so much so that it has been possible to defer the remodelling of the main kitchen facilities for a year or two.
MYA offer imagination and creativity in catering design and will bring a critical eye to a catering project, open challenging established ways of thinking to generate new, more productive and more cost-efficient solutions.
Penny Arnold, Commercial & Operations Director, Fusion Lifestyle
We appointed MYA in 2014 to help us run a competitive tender to outsource fifteen of our catering operations.
The professional approach taken by MYA Consulting, as well as their high levels of attention to detail was a significant factor in attracting quality companies to bid for the opportunity. During the negotiation process, Carla’s knowledge and expertise enabled our company to achieve a very strong commercial outcome, and some significant savings were yielded from the exercise.
In the latter part of 2014, we commissioned MYA Consulting to create a healthy food offer and café brand for our operations.
The MYA team worked hard to develop a brand which reflected our London roots, demonstrating high levels of creativity, alongside a sound commercial proposition. We opened the first cafés in January 2015, and they were well regarded by customers and staff alike. MYA continue to work with us to develop the food offers for our brand, and to train and inspire our staff.
Martin Halsall, Bursar, The Oratory Schools Association
I have worked with MYA and with Margaret Young on 2 separate but similar sized school accounts. In both cases I have found MYA to be subject matter experts. I needed them to provide the scrutiny in the specialised area of catering for which my own working knowledge was inadequate. I wanted a company that could be robust in dealing with the contractor, but also pragmatic. On all counts they have delivered.
I have been delighted with the service that MYA has provided and I believe that the catering services have been delivered more cost-effectively and in a more innovative and attractive way as a result of MYA’s involvement.