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The Number One Profit Building Strategy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.meanbusiness.co.nz/home daily 1.0 2026-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/c1319f5c-2f80-44c3-81ca-1380d5110fcf/simon-karemann-p85-MG66GRY-unsplash_min2.jpg Mean Business - Hospitality Consultants - Hospitality specialists who mean business! We bring business advice to hospitality, and hospitality advice to businesses. We partner with building owners to create destinational dining precincts; and restaurant and café owners to create thriving eateries. Mean Business understands that it takes a lot more than a good idea and nice fit-out to build a successful food destination, so we work closely with our clients to bring great concepts to life, by: • Developing food precinct strategies that attract customers and increase revenue. • Designing tenancy mixes that maximise foot traffic and portfolio performance. • Measuring food precinct performance and benchmarking across the industry. • Streamlining restaurant and café operations to grow profitability, efficiency and customer appeal. While we work with a broad range of clients and concepts, our philosophy is grounded in the notion that when hospitality wins, everyone wins - restaurant owners, landlords, suppliers and customers. https://www.meanbusiness.co.nz/about daily 0.75 2026-02-15 https://www.meanbusiness.co.nz/contact daily 0.75 2023-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/c8c6e831-9a1c-4d4a-b272-e6a2ecd18bc3/Stu+Robertson+Mean+Business+%2824+of+73%29.jpg Contact - Let’s chat! Need some help creating your next cafe, restaurant or dining precinct? Or maybe you’d like us to take a look at an existing business? Call or email to find out more about what our hospitality consultancy and and coaching could do for your business. 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Ongoing hospitality coaching programme to assist you in the implementation of the strategy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/7d8a6ca1-3046-4be7-87f6-87ef61cb9caa/unsplash-image-xhKG01FN2uk_min2.jpg Restaurant Owners - Kick Starter – For new openings. Ensure you’re opening the strongest, and most profitable new café or restaurant. The package includes: Market assessment and concept development Development of a robust and profitable business plan Tools, guides and templates to create a successful pre-opening programme Operational design and planning Marketing Guest experience Ongoing hospitality coaching and support throughout the pre-opening programme https://www.meanbusiness.co.nz/current-1 daily 0.75 2026-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/3b164d12-34b1-4180-bc72-4e200b088df5/Screenshot+2026-02-16+at+12.13.12%E2%80%AFPM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/69180bf0-e1ee-4fea-94f4-dbad5e35c39d/Screenshot+2026-02-16+at+12.01.05%E2%80%AFPM.png Current Projects - Precinct Review & Strategy - Westfield Newmarket Sentre Group, owners of Westfield Newmarket, engaged Mean Business to review and provide strategic recommendations for its premium dining neighbourhood. Utilising our Food Precinct Benchmarking System, Mean Business is undertaking a detailed review of each food retail business within the neighbourhood, as well as the precinct’s wider food offering. The findings of this review, along with the recommendations we provided, are being used to evolve the centre’s food and beverage strategy for the years ahead, while also providing the current tenants with recommendations to enhance their customer offering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/b5e34008-d848-4b3f-aaa0-f3bd5e47aa77/V-Left-Gary-Right-scaled-e1673492820957.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/50278597-c404-420b-b026-8fdb87d6323f/Untitled+design+%283%29.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/2aeaf832-a622-4a7c-b2f2-b75c5ee68d2d/8fb20320e687d51b1022554774fa242a1a95fb17.png https://www.meanbusiness.co.nz/previous daily 0.75 2026-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/c2c6f57e-b280-4da7-a4ed-078980cf2e18/Screenshot+2026-02-16+at+11.48.18%E2%80%AFAM.png Previous - Strategic Review - Sylvia Park Food Hall In anticipation of the next lease cycle and changing customer trends, Mean Business worked with Kiwi Property to reimagine the food court offering. Mean Business undertook a detailed strategic review of the Sylvia Park food court and adjacent food zones, and provided strategic recommendations to evolve the current offering to better suit emerging customer trends, enhance the tenant mix and significantly increase landlord revenue without compromising the profitability of tenants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/7e16172f-abd5-4df3-b835-19f1d5c25055/Screenshot+2026-02-16+at+11.45.02%E2%80%AFAM.png Previous - Strategic Review - Auckland International Airport Mean Business was engaged by Auckland International Airport to help them reimagine their future food offering. Utilising our Food Precinct Benchmarking System, Mean Business undertook a detailed review of each food retail business within the International Terminal Building, as well as the food offering itself. The findings of this review, along with the recommendations we provided, are being used to evolve the airport’s food and beverage strategy for the years ahead, while also providing the current tenants with recommendations to enhance their customer offering. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/2aa83f89-92dc-4aaa-8d2f-34bab1e0c57b/willis-lane-6.jpg Previous - Precinct Development - Willis Lane Mean Business was engaged to manage the commercial and operational design of a world-class dining precinct in Wellington’s CBD. Working as hospitality consultants alongside the project team and designers, we: Helped set a vision for the development Used industry trade data to develop a tenancy mix and leasing strategy Developed an operational overlay for the venue. Assisted tenants with their pre-opening programme to ensure they opened on time, with fit-out designs and business plans optimised for this trading environment. The result was the hugely successful opening of an innovative new dining destination that reinvigorated central Wellington casual dining. The tenancy-mix fitted neatly with the initial vision, and despite a hugely competitive market, each operator was able to thrive, creating a win-win opportunity for the building owner and tenants alike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/1651190219877-MLOY1HY7HXK20TT0DYHV/unsplash-image-qOOwO1Z-I68.jpg Previous - Auckland Property Group A large property group understood that their fifty food tenants required the help of hospitality specialists. Not only that, they knew that as landlords, their success was heavily dependent on the success of their tenant. Mean Business’ hospitality consultation services were engaged, on an ongoing basis, to work alongside each one of their tenants, providing business coaching support, operational support to their shared dining precincts, and better reporting of their tenants’ performance and issues. The partnership has endured for a number of years, and delivered to the client a better understanding of their food-retail portfolio to the client, as well as a higher-performing asset base. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/b9fde5c2-cf8b-473f-ba73-9b3560591540/Commercial_bay_5.jpg Previous - Precinct Development - Commercial Bay Developers, Precinct Property, understood that their vision to create a food hall made up of small-scale independent eateries required a unique approach. Mean Business, were engaged to help guide the development team to create a venue that responded to the needs of independent-style food retailers. And at the same time provided commercial and operational guidance to each of these tenants. As restaurant consultants, we worked closely with these tenants to refine their product offerings, operational plans and business plans so that they opened as profitably as possible. Commercial Bay now established itself as Auckland’s premier dining precinct with 44 high-quality, and novel, food concepts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/9708804e-815a-49f8-91b3-0df436810a6a/272878059_643026017125577_6853072465999369088_n%281%29.jpg Previous - Franchise Development - Foodu Dumplings To help expand their retail network, Foodu Dumplings engaged Mean Business as Restaurant Consultants to build their franchise system. Together with the business’s founders and their team, we’ve helped build the franchise system from the ground up by developing their franchise plan, financial model and operating manuals. We can’t wait to see the FooDu network grow, and better still, enjoy their amazing dumplings throughout New Zealand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/c3c9e733-6638-4c6d-8781-a07fb484d80a/Stables%2BNight%2B3.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6269eaab86867e538981de54/1651199875849-VDMU3FR6FXOZZH3L1AHT/unsplash-image-WC7LeX79iEU.jpg Previous - Auckland Restaurant Group A restaurant group consisting of three different eateries had been trading satisfactorily for a number of years, but increasing costs were slowly eroding their profit margins. Mean Business worked with the management team to successfully implement a number of cost-saving initiatives, and undertook a review of the menus, focusing on price, margin, market-fit and design. 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