Meet Our Team & Partners
Palate Profit is supported by a carefully selected team of industry specialists and strategic partners who bring real-world hospitality, business, and digital expertise to every project. From restaurant operations, menu engineering, and venue optimisation to brand strategy, digital marketing, AI automation, and business brokerage, our partners work alongside Palate Profit to deliver practical, results-driven solutions for restaurants, cafés, and hospitality businesses across Australia and New Zealand. Each partner is chosen for their proven experience, integrity, and deep understanding of the hospitality landscape, ensuring our clients receive well-rounded support that strengthens operations, improves profitability, and positions venues for sustainable long-term growth in competitive local and international markets.
Vanessa Wyatt - Principal
Vanessa Wyatt is the founder of Palate Profit and a Gold Coast–based restaurant operations specialist with a rare mix of chef creativity and owner-level business experience.
After moving from Ngaruawahia, New Zealand to the Gold Coast in 2002, Vanessa built her career across Queensland hospitality—and by just 21, she had opened her first restaurant in Longreach. She later launched Main Wave Restaurant in Main Beach and went on to establish Cedar Creek Restaurant on Tamborine Mountain, delivering winery dining, weddings, and high-volume international tour group service.
Vanessa has lived the reality of hospitality: the long days, tight margins, staffing challenges, and the constant push to deliver great food and service—without burning out. Her strength is translating real-world experience into simple, effective systems that improve performance fast.
Through Palate Profit, Vanessa supports restaurant owners and managers to lift standards, tighten operations, and build a business that runs better, earns more, and gives them their life back.
Trina Henry
Restaurant Business Broker
Meet Trina Henry, a highly regarded hospitality business broker on the Northern Gold Coast, known for her integrity, energy, and consistently strong results. With a long track record in sales and negotiation, Trina specialises in helping restaurant, café, and hospitality owners navigate the sale or acquisition of a business with confidence and clarity.
Trina’s clients value her for straight-talking communication, sharp commercial instincts, and a tireless work ethic. She understands that hospitality isn’t just “a business” — it’s systems, staff, suppliers, leases, and reputation — and she brings a practical, detail-focused approach to every deal.
Built on the core values of honesty, trust, and transparency, Trina guides vendors and buyers through each step of the process with clear advice and zero fluff. Whether you’re preparing to exit, expand, or buy your first venue, she works hard to protect your interests, reduce stress, and get the right outcome — not just a quick one.
Social Carrot
Smart, Practical AI & Automations For Restaurants
Social Carrot is your restaurant’s secret weapon for AI-powered growth. As a partner of Palate Profit, we specialize in done-for-you AI solutions that actually make your life easier. Our AI Reviews tool supercharges your Google reviews and boosts local SEO and automatically posts your best reviews to your social media daily.
Our AI FOH receptionist—whether it’s voice, chat, or messages—keeps your customers engaged and books tables around the clock that you would have missed. In short, we help restaurants work smarter, attract more diners, and build a stellar online reputation.
PASSIVE LAUNCH LAB
Digital Strategy, Marketing & Education Partner
Passive Launch Lab is Pallet Profit’s digital strategy and marketing partner, supporting hospitality venues across Australia to launch, position, and grow with clarity.
Led by founder Chantelle Slee, Passive Launch Lab specialises in brand positioning, digital strategy, and launch planning, ensuring each venue has a clear market presence and a structured path to growth.
Working alongside Pallet Profit’s menu engineering and operational expertise, Passive Launch Lab helps turn hospitality concepts into visible, market-ready brands, aligning messaging, customer journey, and digital presence from day one.
The Lab provides strategic marketing frameworks, launch roadmaps, and scalable digital systems, supporting customer acquisition, brand consistency, and long-term commercial performance.
Through focused strategy and aligned execution, Passive Launch Lab ensures venues don’t just open — they open strong and are built to grow.
Jenny Huang
International Relations & Investment Liaison
Jenny Huang supports Palate Profit as an International Relations & Investment Liaison, working closely with offshore buyers, restaurant investors, and international hospitality clients navigating the Australian market. With a background in luxury hospitality, international tourism, and multicultural operations, Jenny plays a key role in ensuring clear communication, cultural understanding, and seamless engagement across borders.
Fluent in English, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Japanese, and Korean, Jenny acts as a trusted bridge between international stakeholders and local operators—supporting negotiations, site visits, documentation, and ongoing communication. Her experience working across premium retail, hospitality environments, and global client-facing roles allows her to anticipate expectations, manage cultural nuance, and protect the integrity of each transaction.
Through Palate Profit, Jenny helps international clients feel confident, informed, and supported, ensuring investment conversations move forward with clarity, professionalism, and mutual understanding.
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