Who We Are

Created By Operators.
Built For Hospitality.

Big Cat Kitchen was created inside The Irons Club — not as a consulting company, not as a food distributor, but as a natural extension of operating a hospitality business every day.

The kitchen already existed. The team already existed. The expertise already existed.

What emerged was an opportunity to help other hospitality businesses solve similar challenges — while creating additional opportunities for our staff and community.

We don't bring a playbook from a corporate consulting background. We bring the experience of having operated a hospitality business in the real world — with all the constraints, surprises, and lessons that come with it.

Chef Raso at The Irons Club — Big Cat Kitchen origin story
The Name

Why Big Cat Kitchen

The name is a subtle nod to the greatest golfer of all time and the roots of The Irons Club.

But names don’t build great kitchens. Discipline does. Execution does. Consistency does.

The focus is not the name. The focus is the work.

Hospitality kitchen — crostini Hospitality kitchen — operator-made dish

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Operator-Led

Every recommendation comes from people who have actually run a hospitality operation — not from a theory about how one should work.

02

Selective

We work with a small number of partners at any given time. This lets us give each engagement the attention it deserves.

03

Collaborative

The best concepts emerge from real partnership. We work with you — not on your behalf from a distance.

We Work With Operators
Who Take Hospitality Seriously