Company description
Mean Business is a hospitality consulting service. Mean Business founder Stuart Robertson has a broad business management background rooted in brand communications and marketing, having worked across some of New Zealand’s most recognised brands including Sanitarium Weet-Bix, New Zealand Rugby Union, ANZ Bank, Ticketek Entertainment Group, Best Ugly Bagels and Al Brown.
Together, these roles have given him a breadth of hands-on experience in brand development and strategy, major events, sponsorship, publishing, hospitality, HR, management finance and commercial contracting. In addition to this, he’s had extensive experience building teams and cultures and most of all getting things done!
More details
- How do we work
- Each business is as unique as the individuals behind them, but many of them share the same old challenges, which ultimately prevent the owner from the enjoyment and satisfaction business ownership should bring.
New Businesses
The success and profitability of a restaurant is directly related to the quality of the planning and pre-opening processes. Having been involved in the launch of dozens of new eateries, we can assist with the following:
Business forecasting
Menu strategy
Project Management of design, build and brand/ concept development
Operational planning
Staffing
Supplier selection
In essence, we can offer a virtual turn-key solution for all of the strategic, commercial and operational elements of your project.
Already In Business?
If you’re already in business we can work with you to create tailored action orientated plan specifically designed to suit your personal objectives and the environment you operate within, and most importantly increase your profit. -In virtually every instance we can show you how to significantly grow your profit.
This starts with a business health-check. It’s here that we pull the whole thing apart; looking at everything from the market, competition, operations, profitability and staffing.
We tell you exactly what you need to know without bombarding you with screeds to data and graphs. We then overlay your own personal and business objectives.
And if you don’t know what your objectives are, no problem, we’ll help you with that too.
From there we agree on your business priorities and build a strategy to suit, which we help you execute. We effectively become part of your team, we treat your business like it was our own and we roll up our sleeves and get it done.
- Who do we work with
- Focusing mainly in the hospitality sector we have worked with a broad range of clients ranging from small owner operators, to large publicly listed companies; individual eateries, building owners and precincts, to develop and deliver fit outs, operational plans, growth strategies and curated spaces.
