About
Hospitality with a home-cooked heart
Meet Travis Lee Bartell
Travis has spent more than 20 years working in restaurants and leading teams. He understands the long days, the thin margins and the pride that comes with feeding your neighbors well.
His focus is independent and family-owned full-service restaurants, especially in rural communities, where every guest matters and there's rarely a corporate office to lean on.
The approach is simple: respect what already makes your restaurant great, then bring clear numbers, consistent recipes and practical systems so it can stay that way.
Talk With Travis
Local restaurant roots. Remote support nationwide.
Cooking With Love works with independent and family-owned restaurants in western Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, with remote consulting available nationwide. The service area describes where we work with restaurants—not a network of physical offices.
Discuss recipe costing, food cost control, menu profitability or restaurant operations consulting with Travis. For multi-location services, start with a conversation about your restaurants and the scope you need. Any on-site arrangements are agreed during your consultation.