Hospitality Project Management

A 40-seat cafe, a licensed restaurant and a hotel refurbishment are three different jobs with three different approval pathways. The cafe is a fit-out. The restaurant adds a liquor licence and mechanical exhaust. The hotel adds rooms out of service and lost revenue for every week the work runs over. 

We offer our project management consulting services for: 

• Restaurants and licensed venues 

• Cafes and quick-service formats 

• Bars and late-trade venues 

• Hotels, hostels and short-stay accommodation 

• Wellness additions to operating hotels and hostels 

• Multi-site rollouts, where each venue should open faster than the one before 

Most hospitality groups are planning the next venue before the current one opens, and the early work is where they save: site sourcing, the kitchen and services strategy, and procurement decisions made before anyone starts drawing. Hotels and hostels add another layer, because the work happens around guests who are still checking in, as it does on the bathhouse addition at Drifter Hostels' Cairns site. 

Ayres Consulting works with hospitality, wellness and fitness operators nationally from offices on the Gold Coast and in Sydney. Most get in touch when a second or third venue is on the way and the people who ran the first one are busy running it.