Who we are

Welcome to Dinner with Chef, your comprehensive hospitality solution, where quality and innovation meet. Our Team, led by Native Oklahoman Chef Ian Wagner, provides a unique opportunity for anyone looking to enhance their foodservice operation. Our operational and/or menu consulting services are available for your local, independent, or chain restaurant, foodservice operation, or company.

Our clients gain from our Chef’s legacy of excellence in hospitality, spanning over 30 years of experience foodservice operations. This experience, along with strong both marketing and food/retail sales skills, concept ideation and development, operational and menu consulting, menu costing and profitability analysis, professional food and portrait photography, website design, social media, and marketing brings vast resources to your operation.

With professional experience that includes over 2,000 operational and/or menu consultations for foodservice operators in over 40 United States, with over 90% of consultations having been for Oklahoma based operators, Chef Ian has a rich history of helping Oklahoma businesses.

From “Mom & Pop” Restaurants and Cafes, to Single and Multi-Unit Convenience Stores, Pizza Shops, Coffee Houses, Hotels, Catering Companies, Casinos, Food Trucks, Breakfast Diners, Burger Joints, Sushi Bars, Bar and Grill Restaurants, Fine Dining Restaurants, and more…. Chef Ian and our team have 30+ years of high yield, results based, consulting experience.

Chef Ian has over 30 years catering events for numerous events ranging from a single private function for 2, to a corporate event for 25-500 guests or for an elaborate event in excess of 10,000 guests.

Each interaction is carefully designed to showcase our client/partners’ ideas and the distinctive tastes of their selected cuisine or unique concept(s), creating memorable dining experiences and results-driven foodservice consultations for 30+ years. Chef Ian offers professionalism and meticulous attention that turn regular events into remarkable memories.

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I can’t wait to hear from you!

-Chef Ian Wagner