IHS collaborates with C&G by providing management advisory services to support their facility design clients. C & G offers a variety of consulting services to the food service Industry. The firm specializes in delivering the finest food facilities planning and design services available by producing creative solutions to their clients' needs.

IHS collaborates with Culinary Options to provide a collective intelligence focus. Owner and principal, Karen Malody, MSW, FCSI, centers her business on two key activities. The first is to guarantee an integrated vision. Culinary Options begins a project by conducting project ideation and visioning sessions in the infancy stage to identify sort and the impressions of all shareholders. By taking this first step, Culinary Options consistently defines precise and clearly articulated concepts to ensure a dynamic and profitable food service operation. The second step is to create a menu. Identification of the cuisine, methods of cooking, equipment identification and flow within the kitchen can help the designers to achieve a superior level of functionality. Business plans and strategic mapping can occur once the menu is conceptually developed.

IHS collaborates with KAIZEN food service Planning and Design Inc. providing clients of both firms a broader base of resources experience. KAIZEN, formerly "Marrack + Associates", is an award winning consulting firm, specializing in food service, laundry, waste management and materials handling planning and design. The firm consists of a dynamic team providing management advisory and design related services to an international client base within the healthcare, education, hospitality and institutional sectors.

IHS collaborates with kevin sturm Consulting on technology related projects. kevin sturm Consulting is a hospitality technology consulting firm providing evaluation, selection, and implementation services to hospitality venues. With extensive experience in small and large technology deployments the firm specializes in selecting and implementing systems so a venue can effectively manage the experience of it's guests. Managing the guest experience may be working with a client to implement the most technologically advanced guest-interactive solution or to implement a solution so the guest never directly experiences the technology, rather just experiences the benefits of it. kevin sturm Consulting specializes in point of sale (POS), self-service, and business intelligence technology solutions to meet the needs of food service operations and it's guests.

IHS collaborates with Manask & Associates on hospitalit industry projects. Manask & Associates is America's leading restaurant, food service and gift shop consultants to cultural institutions and the hospitality industry. Expert advice on: operational and financial evaluation/needs assessment; outsourcing vs. self-operation; contract negotiations and contract compliance; new and expansion planning and programming; market research and marketing; policies and procedures and optimizing guest satisfaction and profitability.