About Us

GidsMakers has been building operations systems for food businesses since 2017. We work with independent operators, the cafe, coffee shop, and restaurant owners who run the place themselves and feel every gap in it.

We're not a marketing agency, and we're not a software company. We build the systems underneath the business, the ones that keep service consistent, costs in check, and the place running whether or not you're in the room. Remote or on-site, wherever you are.

The rest is best told by the person who built it.

Hi, I'm Tara Mangan.

I'm an F&B consultant with a product background. Twelve years as a product marketing manager, three as a product manager.

So instead of asking what's wrong with your menu, I ask who your customer is. Why they pick you over the shop next door. What happens between the order, the kitchen, and the payment.

As a PM, I call this product-market fit, go-to-market, customer journey. Many F&B owners don't see their business this way at all.

This thinking has worked like a charm in F&B, and I've been proving it since 2017. It's a different lens, and it changes what you fix first. My job is to make sure your operation is strong enough to deliver what your marketing promises.

15 years inside F&B operations. As an owner. As back-office. As the consultant on the floor and in the kitchen, hands dirty, across corporate restaurant groups and independent cafes, multiple cities, multiple formats.

Certified Excellence in Restaurant Service Management (Boga Group, 2026). Perfect scores in Profit & Loss Management, Strategic Operational, Staffing & Scheduling, and Complaint Handling.

I built GidsMakers because I kept watching good businesses fail. The food was fine. The location was fine. The people were fine. What was missing was the system holding it all together.

When a job needs a specialist I don't keep in-house, I bring in a vetted partner under GidsMakers, so you get the right hands for the work, and you still deal with me.