Our Leadership
The Minds Behind the Success
“A successful business does not happen by chance.”
Amicus International was founded on the belief that operational excellence is an engineering problem, not a creative one. Whether the requirement is total project management or limited assistance with fine-tuning an existing facility, our team is dedicated to finding a rational and comprehensive set of solutions to improve financial performance.
Our Philosophy
“We do not believe in luck.
We believe in calibration.”
The gap between a good restaurant and a legendary brand is rarely the food alone. It is the invisible architecture of operations: the flow of the kitchen, the engineering of the menu, and the psychology of the service.
At Amicus, we view hospitality through the lens of asset management. We strip away the guesswork to reveal the mechanics of profitability. Whether we are reviving a heritage brand or launching a disruptive new concept, our mandate remains the same: Absolute Operational Excellence.
Eldho K JacobPrincipal Consultant
Why Amicus
Five reasons owners choose us over a conventional consultancy
01
We put our fee where the profit is
Where the numbers support it, we work on a reduced base fee plus an agreed share of the improvement, measured against an audited opening baseline. If the margin does not move, our upside does not either.
02
We are operators, not report writers
Our leadership has carried the P&L, run multi-site mobilisations, worked hospital catering contracts and stood on a pass during a bad Saturday. Recommendations are written by people who will also be there when they are implemented.
03
Gulf discipline, Kerala economics
We build to the documentation, hygiene and audit standards expected in the GCC, then cost and staff them for what a Kerala operation can actually carry.
04
We solve the staffing problem at source
Through JoPlus Training Institute, our sister concern, we screen, train and place hospitality staff ourselves: the difference between advising you to train your team and handing you one already trained.
05
We diagnose before we prescribe
No proposal until we have read your P&L, walked your kitchen, costed your menu and watched a service. The diagnostic is a defined, priced, standalone piece of work, credited in full against any larger engagement that follows.
Meet The Consultants
Principal Consultant
Eldho K Jacob
Two decades of multi-sector F&B operating leadership across the GCC and India, spanning hospital and patient catering, QSR, restaurants and cafes, offshore and onshore catering, business & industry contracts, education, events and leisure, including VIP and royal F&B service.
His work sits where strategy meets the pass: owning the P&L, mobilising multiple sites at once, writing the SOPs that hold a brand together, and building the teams that run them.
Strategic & operational leadershipCost control and P&L ownershipMulti-site project mobilisationHealthcare & patient cateringF&B concept developmentSOPs, audits & complianceProcurement & supply chainHuman resources & team developmentTraining & performance evaluationHousekeeping & support services
Connect on LinkedInOur Educational Arm
JoPlus Training Institute
Excellence requires training. Our sister concern in Kerala, India, is dedicated to upskilling the next generation of F&B professionals. From operational management to culinary arts, JoPlus bridges the gap between academic knowledge and industry reality.
Skill Development
Industry Certification
Practical Workshops
Placement Assistance
