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Notes for owners who build and run.
Articles on planning, kitchens and opening hotels, restaurants and cafés, written for owners in plain words.
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Prepare to open · 3 min read
A hotel pre-opening checklist, worked back from the date.
This list covers what a hotel needs ready before opening, roughly in the order each item falls due. Use it to spot what is running late while you still have time to fix it.
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Design and set up · 3 min read
Planning a restaurant kitchen around how food moves.
A kitchen can have good equipment and still work badly if the pieces sit in the wrong order. These steps help you think the layout through before anything is built.
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Plan · 2 min read
Opening a café: the costs that get left off the budget.
Rent, interiors and the coffee machine make it onto every café budget. The items below are often missing, and together they can leave you short of cash in your first months.
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