AWDAN CONSULT
RESTAURANTS PROFESSIONALS · SINCE 2001
Restaurant & F&B Consulting · Since 2001
Mohamed Alawdan brings more than two decades of hands-on experience across restaurant operations, catering, hospitality, food safety, training, quality and business development, in 10 countries.
157+
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Professional exposure
The restaurant journey
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Consulting solutions
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TGI Fridays, Marriott, Americana, iHORECA and 157+ project experiences.
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MicroMentor · Mentoring Platform
Certified Food & Beverages mentor on the Mentoring Platform, and a speaker at national programmes, including sessions held with the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
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iHORECA
Restaurant setup and management guidance with iHORECA, the hospitality platform, covering how an owner builds and runs a restaurant that holds together.
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IKEA Saudi Arabia
IKEA Food & Beverage (IFB) Manager. The unit was ranked the highest in the country in sales and bottom line, with a team kept current on food hygiene and HACCP, per the official IKEA Saudi Arabia recommendation letter.
Saudi Airlines Catering
Managing food & beverages, food safety and operations across in-flight, remote and industrial catering.
Wataniya Airways · KASCO
Managing the airline catering operation, kitchen art & science, standard recipe manual and SOPs for mass production.
Cleopatra · Cairo Specialized · Queens · King Saud · King Fahd · Abha Central
Hospital catering across Egypt (Cleopatra, Cairo Specialized, Queens) and Saudi Arabia (King Saud Riyadh, King Fahd Dammam, Abha Central), including Ministry of Health food safety training.
Almajal ServiceMaster / G4S
Food Service Coordinator and Quality Controller for industrial and remote-site catering, with ISO 9001 internal quality auditing.
MADO, Turkey
Academy trainings at MADO in Turkey, one of the region’s most recognized dessert and restaurant brands.
IKEA Food, Delft, Netherlands
F&B Manager trainings and the IKEA Food Netherlands food safety diploma at the Concept Center Academy in Delft.
Hotels & Tourism School
First Grade Award (Hotels and Tourism School, Kitchen Sciences, 5 years Higher Diploma), 1997, Dakahlia Governorate.
Credentials
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In their words
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Mohamed Alawdan · Founder & CEO
Mohamed Alawdan is a business-development and F&B professional with a proven track record of driving profit through commercialism, people management, operations and excellence, across restaurants, airlines in-flight catering, retail, hospitals, food safety and quality assurance, catering operations, hotels, restaurant chains and central food production units.
Since 2001 his work has spanned 10 countries. He is a Highfield Level 4 (Distinction) food safety professional, an ISO 9001 internal quality auditor by training, a MicroMentor-certified mentor, and an instructor at MADARIK, IDRAK and SKY Dream academies.
Documented
At the IKEA Food Concept Center in Delft, Netherlands, where Mohamed completed the IKEA Food Netherlands food safety diploma and the F&B Manager programme. The centre welcomes students, guests and colleagues from IKEA markets worldwide, one flag for each of them on the wall behind him.
Milestones
Leadership team
Mohamed Samy
Chef Consultant
20 years in kitchen operations, consulting and teaching culinary arts; menu development.
Ali Mosa
Finance Consultant
15 years in finance, cost planning & estimation, budget management, contract & procurement support.
El Sayed Aref
HR Consultant
15+ years cross-industry HR; HR Manager at Patchi Egypt; AUC HR Diploma, MBA candidate.
Mahmoud Gamal
Chef Consultant
20 years in kitchen operations, consulting and costing; menu development and food safety excellence.
Amal Elbanna
Chef Consultant
Diploma in Culinary Arts (CTC, City & Guilds London); Diploma in Therapeutic Nutrition (Sadat Academy).
AbdelRaof Alawdan
Graphic Designer
Creative artwork and new ideas in business steering.
Markets
Documented project experience from Cairo and Jeddah to Delft and Kathmandu.
Consulting partners & clients
Questions
AWDAN CONSULT is a restaurant and F&B consultancy led by Mohamed Alawdan, active since 2001. It helps restaurants, hotels, central kitchens and catering operators with concept creation, feasibility, operations audits, SOPs, food safety (HACCP / ISO 22000), menu engineering, training and franchise development.
Restaurants and restaurant chains, cafés, food factories, hotels, central kitchens, hospitals catering, airlines in-flight catering, industrial and corporate catering, retail F&B, cloud kitchens, specialty coffee, and bakery & pastry, 13 F&B sectors with documented project experience.
Project experience spans 10 countries: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Turkey, Libya, the United States, India and Nepal. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are the primary markets; reach Mohamed directly by phone or WhatsApp.
Yes. Mohamed Alawdan holds the Highfield Level 4 International Award in Food Safety Management (Distinction, 2026), completed ISO 9001 internal quality auditor training, and operated an ISO 22000-certified central kitchen at IKEA Saudi Arabia. Services cover food safety training, HACCP implementation, audits, and qualification and certification support for ISO 22000, ISO 9001 and ISO 45001.
Yes. Franchise development covers the franchise profile, franchise manual, franchise agreement and business development, including recent franchise and market-entry projects across Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
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