Makeat is an innovation, design and product development studio focused on the gastronomic ecosystem. Based in Barcelona, we work at the intersection of thinking, making and experiencing, designing projects that transform ideas into systems, tools and experiences with real impact.
We understand gastronomy as a complex, living system where creativity, innovation, science, strategy, operations, technology and emotion coexist. Our work moves between analysis and creation, combining consultancy and design as two complementary ways of approaching the same challenge: understanding reality in depth in order to transform it with purpose.
Through Consultancy, we analyse contexts, processes and behaviours to define clear frameworks for decision-making, innovation and growth, and activate this knowledge through workshops, talks and tailored learning formats, designed to share methodology, align teams and open new perspectives. Through Design, we translate those frameworks into tangible solutions (products, tools, devices and experiences) where form, function and narrative are inseparable.
We work with materials, technology, processes and people. We collaborate with brands, operators and professionals from food, drinks, science, design and business, acting as a bridge between innovation and real use. From this way of thinking and making, initiatives like Tools by Makeat naturally emerge, expanding the possibilities of gastronomic design through creative tooling.
At Makeat, every project is an opportunity to explore new languages, question conventions and design with intention. We think through every detail, every texture, shape, scent and flavour, because we believe that meaningful impact happens when ideas are not only imagined, but carefully built.
At the core of our work are the methodologies that guide how we think and how we build. Food Thinking allows us to approach gastronomy as a living system, connecting culture, context, technique, experience, science, innovation and creativity to develop projects with depth and meaning. FAC.U² structures the journey from analysis to creation, helping us turn understanding into action with clarity and coherence. Together, these methodologies are embedded in every project we develop at Makeat, across both consultancy and design, ensuring that ideas are not only creative, but also solid, intentional and executable.
Lasarte | Disfrutar | SIPS | Macallan | Aethos Mallorca | America’s Cup | Azurmendi | Bellus | Bombay Shapphire | Dewars | Salmón Gurú | Grosvenor House JW Marriot Hotel | Jumpers | Levi’s | Mo Barcelona | Rocambolesc | Moet & Chandon | NeoSpot | Popitas | Bacardi | Lluc Crusellas | Carles Codina (Four Seasons Madrid) | Welbilt | Paradiso | Grupo Esencia | Le Tribute | Miquel Guarro | Hofmann | Mamzel Marbella | Mr. Porter |
At MAKEAT, we are committed to ensuring that your personal information is protected and not misused.
This document details the entity responsible for the processing of personal data, as well as the purposes for which your information is processed, the legal basis supporting such processing, the methods of data collection and the reasons behind it, how the information will be used, your rights as the data subject, and the procedures implemented to safeguard your privacy.
We obtain personal data that you provide when purchasing a service or product through our website, filling out forms, or other means. You will be informed about who is responsible for the processing, the purposes of the processing, who will receive the information, and how you can exercise your rights under current data protection regulations.
The categories of data that we may process are as follows:
Personal data will be processed for the following purposes:
Fulfillment of contracts with MAKEAT: Processing necessary to handle your purchases and provide the services you request. Purchases, including deliveries, shipments and returns, warranties, suggestions, inquiries, complaints, incidents, disputes, etc. Payment management for products and services. Billing and receipt management, issuance of invoices, and documentation related to the purchase. Fraud prevention during the purchasing process if inconsistencies are detected in contracts under your name.
Legal basis: Contractual relationship. Consent (for stored payment data for future purchases). Data retention period: the time necessary to manage the contractual relationship between MAKEAT and the user. Stored payment data will be kept until the user requests deletion.
Customer service:
Data necessary to handle user requests will be processed.
Legal basis: User consent (for MAKEAT website forms or other contact methods), legitimate interest (for user inquiries), legal obligation (to address data protection rights exercised by users). Retention period: the time necessary to address user requests.
Commercial management: Data necessary for sending communications, commercial offers, and newsletters subscribed to by the user will be processed.
Legal basis: User consent. Legitimate interest (for sending commercial communications to users who have previously had a contractual relationship with MAKEAT). Personal data will be retained until the user expresses the wish not to receive further communications from MAKEAT. Users may unsubscribe from newsletters at any time.
Quality surveys: Conducting quality surveys about products or services offered.
Legal basis: Legitimate interest. Data will be processed for the time necessary to complete the quality surveys.
User personal data may be shared with third-party partner companies such as information service providers, administrative service providers for MAKEAT, advertising and marketing providers, financial services, and security providers. Personal data may also be shared with Public Administrations when required by current legislation.
In certain cases, to ensure proper service delivery, MAKEAT works with technology service providers who may be located outside the European Economic Area, including in countries with data protection levels not equivalent to those of the EEA. However, all international data transfers carried out by the entity are lawful and supported by one of the protection mechanisms established by the GDPR, such as the adoption of appropriate contractual safeguards according to the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.
Users’ personal information is stored only as long as necessary for its intended purpose and according to the applicable legal basis. MAKEAT will retain personal data while there is a contractual and/or commercial relationship with the user, or until the user exercises the right of deletion or restriction of data processing. In such cases, the information will remain blocked and unused, only retained for the exercise or defense of legal claims, or if any judicial, legal, or contractual liability arising from the data processing requires its recovery.
Appropriate technical and organizational measures are employed to safeguard users’ personal information and privacy, which are periodically reviewed. Protection of personal data is ensured through the implementation of physical and technological security controls, including access controls regulating and managing the processing and handling of personal data. MAKEAT also ensures that staff is properly trained to protect user information.
Users may exercise the following rights via e-mail at gestion@makeat.tech:
For minors under fourteen years of age, parental or guardian consent is required for the processing of their personal data. MAKEAT is not responsible for the actions of minors. Parents or legal guardians are responsible for the actions of minors on the website.
MAKEAT reserves the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, based on potential changes to the website. Likewise, if the changes are substantial, MAKEAT will inform users of such modifications.
We work with chefs, brands, and innovators around the world to turn imagination into matter — and we’re always looking for curious, restless minds to join us.
We value thinkers who build and makers who think. People who are comfortable with ambiguity, who see both code and cuisine as creative tools.
Carrer Ramon Turro, 5,
Barcelona, Spain 08005
+34 646 044 137