Store Roll-out
From empty shell to trading, without the drama.
Lease, plans, municipal approval, contractors, fit-out and launch — project-managed so your franchisee opens on the date you promised them.
Every week late costs your franchisee rent and costs you a reputation.
A franchisee signs, pays a fee, signs a lease, and starts paying rent on an empty shop. From that moment the clock runs on their money. Every week the fit-out slips is a week of rent against no revenue, and their working capital was calculated on the opening date you gave them.
The delays are rarely dramatic. Plans sit at the municipality longer than anyone expected. A contractor is on another job. Equipment arrives in the wrong specification. Signage is ordered against an old drawing. None of it individually is a disaster; together they add six weeks.
And your next prospective franchisee will ask the last one how the opening went.
What we handle
Site selection & assessment
Foot traffic, demographics, visibility, parking, competitors and the things a landlord’s brochure leaves out. The wrong site can’t be fixed by good trading.
Lease negotiation
Rental, escalation, beneficial occupation, tenant installation allowance and exit terms — negotiated with someone who has read a few hundred of these.
Design & drawings
Store layout and concept drawings that reflect your brand standards and work operationally — kitchen flow, service points, storage, seating.
Municipal submissions
Plans prepared and submitted for council approval, with the process followed through rather than lodged and hoped for. This is where most openings quietly lose a month.
Contractors & fit-out
Subcontractors appointed and coordinated against a programme and a budget, with someone checking the work against your brand standards rather than against nothing.
Equipment & launch
Equipment specified and installed, staff trained, stock in, signage up, and a launch that puts people through the door on day one rather than week six.
How we run it
Programme and budget
Before anyone lifts a tool: a dated programme working backwards from the opening date, and a budget your franchisee can actually finance.
Plans in early
Municipal submission goes in as soon as the lease allows, because it’s the one item on the programme nobody can accelerate later.
Weekly control
A written control register: what’s done, what’s due, what’s slipping and who owes what. Circulated weekly so nothing surfaces as a surprise.
Handover and open
Snag list closed out, staff trained, stock in and marketing running before the doors open — not scrambled together the night before.
Someone whose job it is to chase.
Most franchisors hand the fit-out to the franchisee with a set of drawings and a supplier list. The franchisee has never done this before, is paying rent, and is trying to hire staff at the same time. So things slip — not through anyone’s fault, but because nobody’s full-time job is making the programme hold.
That’s the job. Chasing the council, chasing the contractor, checking the signage against the drawing, catching the wrong equipment before it’s installed rather than after. It isn’t glamorous work and it doesn’t photograph well.
It’s also the difference between an opening date and an opening.
What goes with it
Roll-out draws on your brand standards and your training programme, and usually runs alongside menu and marketing work for a launch.
Brand Development ·
Menu Development ·
Training ·
Social Media Management ·
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Open on the date you promised.
One free hour to talk through your roll-out plan, your timelines and where the risks sit.
Or call Robin directly on 082 451 1604