Owner-side oversight from site selection through construction, and hands-on opening support until the unit stabilizes.
In this domain: Development & Project ManagementOpening Support & Stabilization
A new location hands an operator a second job: managing architects, contractors, landlords and vendors while still running the restaurants that pay for all of it. We carry it beside you, so the building gets decided on the operation’s terms.
The build and the opening meet on the day the keys turn over. Before that day the risk lives in the building: the site, the lease, the floor plan, and every decision made for construction convenience that the team will pay for on every shift after.
From that day forward the risk lives in the operation: the managers you hired months earlier, the training, and the first ninety days, which set the habits the unit runs on through its first year. One person has to own both sides of that handoff, with development experience and operating judgment in the same head.
Tell us what’s next.
Bring the sites on your list, any lease draft and the opening date you want.
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We read the site from the building side before anything is signed: build cost per foot against what your open units earn per foot, the delivery condition, the work letter and the TI allowance.
The build and the opening run on one calendar:
- Letter of intent.
- Lease.
- Permits and the liquor license.
- Construction start.
- FF&E orders.
- Hiring ramp.
- Inspections and the certificate of occupancy.
- Key handover.
- Training.
- Soft open.
- The 30/60/90 stabilization read.
When the calendar holds, opening week is uneventful.
We are in the building from the training days through the soft open and the first full weekend, with lunch and dinner opened one at a time and each held until it runs clean.
By day ninety the opening managers run the pre-shift and the numbers without the training team, and certified trainers named in the unit take every hire after opening day.
Where groups call us
The building passed inspection and the kitchen does not work
The certificate of occupancy is on the wall and the contractor wants the final payment. Then the first training day finds a floor drain in the wrong place, no network point at the expo station and a walk-in nobody has run. Each one was cheaper to catch before the inspector signed off.
We read the drawings against the menu and the station list before the permit set, run every piece of equipment and every walk-in before key handover, and walk an operator’s punch list with the manager who owns each area, signed by operations before the final payment.
The GC’s schedule became the operating plan
Nobody decided it: hiring got pegged to the GC’s completion date, training to hiring, and vendor onboarding to all of it. When the contractor slips three weeks the whole opening slips with it, and the carrying costs run while everyone waits on a punch list.
We take the calendar back from the contractor: hiring, training and vendor onboarding set to opening day, and the construction schedule held to it gate by gate, with every inspection walked ahead of the inspector. A slip shows up at a gate while the start dates can still move, not in the week the team starts.
The pipeline is outrunning the bench
Deals are moving faster than the group can develop ready GMs, and each new unit signed lowers the bar for the GM who opens it. The deal memo never prices that trade, and the new unit’s P&L pays for it.
We pace the opening calendar against the bench, counted across the group: two ready GMs and one ready AGM for every GM role open or planned. An opening that would break the count waits, so the growth rate reflects who is ready to run a unit, not how many leases you can sign.
Who runs it
RANGE was founded by Jon Peck, who spent twenty years running multi-unit restaurant groups: eight brands built and scaled, twelve openings across six concepts in three years, and more than $100 million of annual P&L owned.
If this is what’s next, bring it.
The call works out where the work starts.
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