Connecting visionary brands with strategic partners

About Develop Hospitality

Develop Hospitality is a global connector for the hospitality industry, partnering with restaurant brands ready to scale, and investors, hotel groups, and developers seeking standout F&B concepts.

We represent over 60 international brands across casual, premium, and lifestyle dining, supporting their expansion through franchise, joint venture, and licensing models.

At the same time, we advise hotel operators, real estate developers, and investment groups on how to enhance their hospitality portfolios. Whether sourcing existing restaurant brands or developing bespoke concepts, we align the right operators to the right projects.

From early planning through to operational execution, we work across both sides of the table, helping brands grow with purpose, and bringing value-driven, experience-led dining to destinations worldwide.

Services we offer

Develop Hospitality partners with both sides of the table. Restaurant brands looking to expand, and investors, developers, and hotel groups seeking the right food and beverage solutions.

We don’t just broker deals. We shape long-term growth strategies, match the right operators to the right opportunities, and support execution from concept to opening. With a global view and hands-on expertise, we help bring hospitality visions to life, from single-site investments to multi-country rollouts.

Whether you’re scaling a brand, building a hospitality-led development, or rethinking your F&B strategy, we bring commercial insight, trusted relationships, and operational rigour to every stage

Operator-Investor Partnerships
We connect growth-stage brands with capital, and investors with credible operators, structuring partnerships that drive sustainable, scalable value.

Mergers & Acquisitions for Hospitality Groups
We advise on acquisitions, disposals, and portfolio strategy, supporting growth or exit plans for multi-site operators and investment firms.

Capital Access for Hospitality Brands
We introduce restaurants and F&B groups to aligned investors, from private equity and family offices to strategic funds and advice on funding structure and valuation.

International Expansion for Restaurants, Bars & Lifestyle Concepts
We structure and facilitate growth via franchise, joint venture, or licensing models, identifying target markets, negotiating agreements, and sourcing trusted local partners.

F&B Strategy for Hotel Groups & Mixed-Use Projects
We shape hospitality visions with the right mix of restaurant brands, concepts, and operators, tailored to guest profiles, commercial goals, and positioning.

Consulting for Developers & Real Estate Investors
We provide development-stage support, from feasibility and planning to brand alignment and F&B programming, optimising every square metre for guest experience and return.

Concept Creation for Hotels & Resorts
We design new restaurant concepts from the ground up, rooted in market relevance, hotel positioning, and long-term operating potential.

Financial Performance & Commercial Modelling
We analyse the numbers that matter, benchmarking costs, forecasting revenues, and identifying performance levers for growth.

Operational Advisory for Restaurant Groups
We review systems, structures, and teams, improving efficiency, guest experience, and profitability through practical, experience-led solutions.

Team

Co-Founder
It all starts with a vision, a space, a brand, or a market ready for change.
With 30+ years of global hospitality experience, Paul has launched, scaled, and repositioned restaurant and bar concepts across the UK, Middle East, Europe and Asia.
A strategist and operator in equal measure, he brings commercial clarity and industry insight to every partnership, aligning brands with opportunity, and turning plans into reality.

Co-Founder
From the kitchen to the boardroom. Nigel builds brands that travel.

A chef by training and a global brand developer by trade, Nigel has spent over three decades shaping and expanding hospitality concepts across Europe, Asia, the US and the Middle East.
With deep operational know-how and a creative eye, he works side by side with founders, hoteliers and investors to create scalable, relevant, and resilient F&B experience