Critical path and budget
Every dependency from lease to launch, costed, with float where it matters.
Openings
Restaurant and hotel opening consultancy — pre-opening and mobilisation
Openings are lost in the six months before the doors open. A critical path, a real pre-opening budget and trained people are what separate a strong first month from an expensive one.
Symptoms
You are probably here because
These are the patterns that bring owners to this conversation.
- —A lease is signed and there is no week-by-week plan
- —Fit-out decisions are being made without an operating model
- —Recruitment starts too late to train properly
- —No soft launch, so the first paying guests are the rehearsal
What changes
- ✓An opening date the team can actually hold
- ✓Pre-opening spend controlled against a plan
- ✓A trained team on day one instead of week six
The work
How we approach it
Mobilisation
Licensing, procurement, equipment specification, recruitment campaign and onboarding.
Training and soft launch
Training weeks, SOP build, menu rehearsal, friends-and-family service and a post-opening review.
Engagements
What you can buy
Defined scope, defined deliverables. Fees are quoted and agreed in writing before anything starts.
Operating Model Reset
Labour, rotas and standards matched to real demand patterns.
- —Demand-based labour model
- —SOP library and shift routines
- —Management accountability cadence
- —Systems and reporting audit
Opening Programme
From lease to first service without the usual cost overruns.
- —Critical path and pre-opening budget
- —Licensing, procurement and recruitment plan
- —Training weeks and SOP build
- —Soft launch and opening review
FAQs
Questions owners ask
How early should we involve you?
Ideally before the fit-out is fixed — kitchen layout, storage and back-of-house flow are operating decisions that are expensive to reverse later.
Can you support an existing site relaunching?
Yes. Relaunches follow the same mobilisation discipline, with the added task of resetting expectations with existing guests.
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Let's talk about your venue's next chapter
A free 30-minute virtual consultation, held at any date and time that suits you — in your own time zone. After that, video consultancy is charged hourly for discussion-based advice; offline project work is quoted separately.