What is a turnkey hospitality solution?
A turnkey hospitality solution puts the whole fit-out under one contract: feasibility, design, consents, construction and handover. The operator receives a site ready to trade — the “key” — rather than coordinating a designer, a contractor, a planning consultant and a dozen specialist trades separately.
We call it nose-to-tail. The advantage is not convenience alone; it is accountability. When one team owns the programme, a delay in consents or a late equipment order is that team’s problem to solve, not yours to referee.
The hospitality fit-out process, step by step
Every project we deliver follows the same five stages, whatever the size — from 75 sq ft to 26,900 sq ft.
- Feasibility: survey, brief test and risk register
- Design: concept through to a frozen technical design
- Consents: planning, heritage and licensing lodged in parallel
- Build: strip-out, first fix, joinery, equipment, finishes
- Handover: commissioning, snagging, documentation, trade
Why consents should run alongside the build
The most common reason hospitality openings slip is treating consents as a gate rather than a workstream. At Mercato Mayfair — a 25,000 sq ft conversion of a Grade I* listed church — planning permission, listed building consent and a premises licence were three separate applications. Running them in parallel with the build is what made the programme possible.
What to fix before you sign a lease or a contract
Check the use class and any heritage designation, the capacity of the incoming services, and whether an extraction route exists. Those three questions decide more of your programme than any finish selection.
