Mean Business help craft successful eateries and dining precincts in partnership with restaurant, cafe, and building owners.

In many ways, we are the commercial and operational architects who help create world-class dining precincts, food halls and restaurants, that customers and owners love.

As hospitality specialists we:

• Help restaurants and cafes grow their business and improve profitability.

• Create and implement food strategies for new restaurants and dining precincts.

• Design tenancy mixes.

• Streamline the performance of a food-retail portfolios for building owners.

• Build franchise systems.

While we work with a range of clients and concepts, our philosophy is grounded in the notion that when hospitality wins, everyone wins - restaurant owners, landlords, suppliers and customers.

About Stu . . .

Stu Robertson’s career spans some of New Zealand’s most iconic brands including Sanitarium Weet-Bix, New Zealand Rugby Union, and ANZ.

After a number of years as General Manager of the Al Brown group, Stu realised that there were a huge number of food businesses really struggling to make ends meet. This struggle was affecting the entire hospitality eco-system including building owners, suppliers and customers.

The solution was a hospitality consultancy which means business.

One that brings big business discipline to small businesses, to create lean, higher-performing and profitable cafes, restaurants and dining precincts.

Years later Mean Business has worked with hundreds of food-retailers and building owners around the country to create successful hospitality ventures.