Five engagement types. Calibrated to the decision in front of you.
Krause Hospitality Advisory works on five primary engagement types — each one framed around a specific decision a chain leader, foodservice investor, or hospitality holding has to make. We do not publish standard packages; the work is scoped on the briefing call.
Should we enter DACH or Western Europe, and how do we sequence the entry?
A structured read on whether your concept clears the DACH bar, where it breaks first, and which sequence of cities, formats, and partners gives the entry the best chance of compounding.
Read engagement type →Where does the system break before it scales — units, capital, supply, talent?
An expansion-risk review locates the failure modes that show up between unit fifteen and unit fifty: the supply lane that goes thin, the operating bench that goes shallow, the unit-economics assumption that no longer holds at scale.
Read engagement type →Is this concept chain-capable in our market, and at what unit count does the model work?
A concept-fit assessment answers two questions in sequence: does this concept survive the German guest at all, and if it does, where on the unit-count curve does the unit-economics math become real.
Read engagement type →Where do we stand in the segment, and where do we hold the line?
A competitive positioning review reads the segment from the guest backwards, names the two or three brands that actually constrain your pricing power and traffic, and locates the line you should defend before the competitor takes it from you.
Read engagement type →Where in the portfolio is the unrecognised growth — and which assets are quietly losing it?
A portfolio growth review reads each holding the way an outside acquirer would, locates the under-managed growth no one inside the platform is fighting for, and names the assets quietly slipping below the bar that the LP report still flatters.
Read engagement type →We do not publish standard packages. Engagements are calibrated to the decision in front of you.
Every engagement starts with a structured briefing call — decision context, scope, fit, timeline. From the call, we draft a one-page scope; once that is agreed, the work starts. No prepared deck on our end. No off-the-rack mandate.