150 items across 6 phases. Built from real hotel and restaurant pre-openings. Tick off as you go — progress saves in your browser.
For context on the commercial discipline behind a well-managed opening: Pre-Opening Checklist for Restaurants, Cafés and Hotel F&B Outlets.
The Pre-Opening Pro Pack expands into a full project management framework: phase-by-phase Gantt timeline, supplier onboarding tracker, staff training matrix, POS and systems setup guide, and a soft-opening debrief template. Built from Shangri-La, Rosewood, and Marriott pre-opening engagements.
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Most of the checklist is relevant from around 90 days before opening, with a handful of items — lease finalisation, core menu direction, key hires — often needing to start considerably earlier, up to 6 months out.
No — a major relaunch, rebrand or significant menu overhaul benefits from the same discipline, since many of the same risks (supplier onboarding, staff training, systems readiness) apply whenever a venue is presenting something substantially new to guests.
Underestimating how long supplier onboarding and staff training genuinely take, and compressing or skipping the soft-opening period as a result — which is usually when the real operational problems would have surfaced safely, before a full-capacity launch.