Terms & Conditions

Paul Forciniti Culinary Consulting
Effective date: 28 July 2026
Last updated: 28 July 2026

1. Agreement to these terms

These Terms & Conditions govern your use of www.paulforciniti.com (the "Site"), operated by Paul Forciniti Culinary Consulting ("we", "us", "our"). By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.

2. What this Site is

The Site presents information about our hospitality, restaurant and hotel food-and-beverage operations consulting practice, together with written commentary on operational subjects.

3. No consulting relationship

Reading this Site does not create a consulting or advisory relationship between you and us. Submitting an inquiry form does not create one either. A consulting relationship begins only when both parties sign a written engagement agreement setting out scope, deliverables, fees and terms.

4. Informational content is general

Articles, insights and descriptions of methodology published on this Site are general commentary. They are not tailored to any particular business, property or operation, and they are not a substitute for engagement-specific analysis.

Restaurant and hotel operations differ materially by market, format, ownership structure, labor environment and regulatory regime. Any decision you take based on general content on this Site is taken at your own risk. We are not responsible for outcomes arising from the application of general commentary to a specific operation.

Nothing on this Site constitutes legal, financial, tax, accounting, employment or food-safety-regulatory advice. Consult a qualified professional in the relevant field.

5. Inquiries and confidential information

When submitting an inquiry through the Site:

- Provide accurate information.
- Do not submit confidential or proprietary information. Website form submissions are not a secure or confidential channel. Information you send through a form before a written agreement is in place is not treated as confidential and creates no duty of confidentiality on our part.
- We are under no obligation to respond to any inquiry, and may decline any engagement for any reason.

Where an engagement proceeds, confidentiality is governed by the written agreement between us, not by these terms.

6. Intellectual property

All content on this Site — text, written commentary, photographs, graphics, layout, design and the compilation of that material — is owned by us or used with permission, and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws.

You may view the Site, and print or download extracts for your own non-commercial reference. You may quote short passages with clear attribution and a link to the source page.

You may not, without our prior written permission:

- Reproduce, republish or redistribute Site content commercially
- Present our content as your own
- Use our content to train machine learning or generative AI systems
- Copy the Site's design or structure
- Use our name, or the title of any work published by us, in a way that implies endorsement or association

"Your Food Is Not the Problem" and associated material remain the property of the author and their publisher.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Site to transmit unlawful, abusive or misleading material; to attempt unauthorized access to the Site or its infrastructure; to scrape or harvest content or contact details by automated means; to introduce malicious code; or to interfere with the Site's operation or with other users' access.

8. Disclaimer of warranties

The Site is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, error-free or free of harmful components, or that its content is complete, current or accurate at any given moment.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profit, revenue, data, business or goodwill, arising out of or in connection with your use of, or inability to use, the Site — whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, and whether or not we were advised of the possibility of such damages.

Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, our total aggregate liability arising from your use of the Site is limited to USD 100.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

10. Third-party links

The Site links to third-party websites, including LinkedIn and Instagram. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their content, terms or privacy practices. Links are provided for convenience and do not imply endorsement.

11. Privacy

Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.

12. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, loss, liability or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your breach of these terms or your misuse of the Site.

13. Changes

We may amend these terms at any time. The current version is always posted on this page with its effective date. Continued use of the Site after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Iowa, United States, without regard to its conflict of law rules. You agree that the state and federal courts located in Iowa have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from these terms or your use of the Site.

This clause governs use of this website only. It does not restrict where we work — our consulting practice serves clients across the United States and internationally — and it does not govern any signed engagement agreement, which sets its own terms.

15. Severability and entire agreement

If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Site, and supersede any prior understanding. They do not supersede any signed consulting engagement agreement, which governs its own subject matter.

16. Contact

Paul Forciniti Culinary Consulting
hello@paulforciniti.com