GGB 01
Site read
Footfall, visibility, access, service access, neighbouring uses and daypart character — read against the intended format.
Development service · the site workstream
The lease is the largest unpriced risk in hospitality.
Rent is only the visible number. Utilities headroom, exhaust routes, grease management, service access, landlord technical conditions and licence realism decide whether a site can ever be the venue you are imagining. GGB reads all of it — before signature, while walking away is still free.
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By P. Dayaparan, founder of GGB Consulting: 28+ years in hospitality leadership, PMP. Updated .
The risk of signing first and discovering later
A signed lease converts every site unknown into your cost: the electrical upgrade the landlord will not fund, the exhaust route the neighbours will not permit, the delivery access that adds labour to every order, the rent that no realistic revenue model carries.
- Rent-to-revenue ratios outside the published viability bands
- Utilities and extraction shortfalls discovered at design stage
- Landlord technical conditions that reprice the fit-out after signature
- A licence class the address cannot support
GGB development framework position on the Restaurant Genesis system
Exact deliverables5 items · scoped per project
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Technical headroom check
Power, water, drainage, extraction routes and structural constraints reviewed with the appointed engineers before commitment.
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Rent logic
The rent tested against the format’s realistic revenue model and the published rent-to-revenue bands — the arithmetic before the optimism.
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Landlord-condition review
Fit-out guidelines, approval gates and delivery conditions read for what they will actually cost.
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Lease coordination
The commercial and technical findings packaged for your lawyer’s legal review — one brief, no gaps between disciplines.
Who does whatregulated work stays with the licensed
GGB delivers
- Commercial site read and rent logic
- Technical requirement definition
- Landlord-condition analysis
- The due-diligence brief
You decide
- The signing decision
- Commercial negotiation positions
Licensed professionals & authorities
- Lease legal opinion by your lawyer
- Engineering verification by licensed engineers
- Licence determinations by the authorities
Why the split matters — five specialists, one disconnection: what one mandate integrates
The methodsequence and control — dates are scoped per project, never promised here
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Format first
A site is only good FOR something — the read starts from the intended format’s requirements.
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Kill criteria early
Licence realism and technical headroom checked before commercial romance develops.
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Arithmetic over optimism
Rent tested against modelled revenue, not against the landlord’s brochure.
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One brief to legal
Your lawyer receives findings, not fragments.
The proofregister-traced — never a stock claim
The discipline is on file, not asserted:
Design-brief record · September 2013 · hospitality development, Nizwa
Coordinated design brief — scope schedule
The spaces briefed as one system
- Basement bar
- Ground-floor reception
- Lounge
- Waiting areas
- 120 custom side stations — service furniture specified alongside the rooms it serves
What one brief demanded, together
- Bill of quantities and quotation
- Reference imagery and 3D design
- Layouts
- MEP provisions — engineering asked for at brief stage, not discovered on site
Design-brief correspondence · September 2013 · recomposed from the verified intake register record (docs/proof/INTAKE.md row 7); contacts and individuals redacted · published anonymised · redacted for publication
The records behind this service
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Restaurant-development consultancy and pre-construction governance
Role: Founder-led development governance — options, layouts, kitchen logic, contractor scope and commercial agreements governed before construction committed the money.
Delivered: Consultancy proposal with detailed scope and activity sequencing · Layout and kitchen alternatives with preliminary visualisations
Limit: This record is deliberately presented as consultancy and pre-construction governance — no construction, completion or trading claim is made.
Each record opens with its roles, deliverables and the limits of what it proves — read the record, not the summary.
A 2013 development brief in the register shows the practice: one coordinated requirement package — spaces, equipment, BOQ, 3D design, layouts and MEP provisions — written before commitment, so every discipline answered one question instead of five.
The decisions this createsgates, not vibes
- GATEProceed / negotiate / walk on each candidate site
- GATETechnical-headroom confirmation before lease legal review
- GATERent-logic pass against the published bands
Site and lease due diligence is part of every feasibility study, and runs standalone when a specific lease is already on the table and the clock is running.
Feasibility & Investment Case — the paid entry From AED 45,000 indicative — scoped per project
Questions
- Is this a legal review of the lease?
- No — the legal opinion stays with your lawyer. GGB delivers the commercial and technical due-diligence brief your lawyer reviews against: the findings, the risks, the conditions worth negotiating.
- We already signed. Is it too late?
- The read still pays: landlord conditions, technical headroom and rent logic shape the design and operating decisions ahead. Bring the lease to a feasibility review.
One application starts the whole system.
The Start a Project application qualifies the brief across capital, site, timing and scope — the same intake every Genesis mandate begins with. The paid feasibility study is the commercial entry.
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