Hospitality, Food & Beverage

Hospitality collapses in the compliance gap.
We monitor it 24/7.

60% of new restaurants fail in year one. Most don't fail because the food is bad, they fail because the commercial infrastructure isn't there. OTTO, ZARA, and LINC handle finance, compliance, and pipeline so you can focus on the floor.

220K UK hospitality businesses
60% Fail in year one
£12,500 Average licence breach fine
OTTO
Working capital facilities
Venue acquisition finance
Refurbishment finance
144+ lender panel
Finance Agent
ZARA
Licence compliance alerts
Food hygiene deadlines
Regulatory filing monitoring
Zero penalty exposure
Compliance Agent
LINC
B2B pipeline building
Corporate hospitality leads
LinkedIn outreach
Warm prospect delivery
Pipeline Agent
Intelligence Layer
Daily intelligence brief
Finance + compliance + pipeline
Founder command centre
Always on
OS Layer
60% of new UK restaurants fail within twelve months. The gap between good food and good business kills most of them. We close that gap.
220,000 UK hospitality businesses
60% New restaurants fail in year one
£12,500 Average compliance fine for licence breaches
Daily ZARA compliance monitoring, no deadline ever missed

Finance, compliance, and pipeline. Running before service starts.

Most hospitality businesses manage finance reactively, discover compliance problems too late, and rely on word of mouth for pipeline. OTTO, ZARA, and LINC flip all three, proactive finance matching, automated compliance monitoring, and daily pipeline development.

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OTTO matches hospitality-specialist lenders

Working capital for stock and seasonal cash flow, refurbishment finance, venue acquisition, and equipment leasing, OTTO's panel includes hospitality specialists who understand seasonal revenue patterns, tied-lease structures, and wet-led versus food-led trade. The right lender, matched automatically.

OTTO, WORKING CAPITAL & EXPANSION FINANCE
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ZARA monitors every licence and deadline

Premises licence reviews, personal licence renewals, food hygiene inspections, EHO re-registration, allergy policy updates, ZARA monitors all of them and fires alerts at 30, 14, 7, and 1 day before each deadline. A £12,500 fine for a licence breach is avoidable. ZARA makes it impossible to miss.

ZARA, LICENCE & COMPLIANCE MONITORING
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LINC builds your B2B pipeline

Corporate events, private dining, function bookings, B2B catering contracts, LINC identifies decision-makers at target businesses within your radius, connects on LinkedIn, and delivers warm prospects without cold calling. Hospitality pipeline doesn't have to be passive.

LINC, B2B PIPELINE DEVELOPMENT

Three AI agents built for hospitality.

Each agent runs autonomously, reporting into SME Growth Team's daily brief. No manual operation required.

OTTO
Finance Agent

144+ lender panel including hospitality-specialist funders. Working capital, venue acquisition, refurbishment, and equipment, matched to seasonal revenue patterns and lease structures.

ZARA
Compliance Agent

Monitors premises licences, personal licences, food hygiene ratings, EHO registration, and Companies House filings. Graduated alerts at 30, 14, 7, and 1 day before every deadline.

LINC
Pipeline Agent

B2B pipeline development, corporate hospitality leads, private dining prospects, function bookings, and catering contracts. Warm introductions delivered daily, not cold calls.

The full commercial layer for hospitality businesses.

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Working Capital & Expansion Finance

Seasonal cash flow gaps, stock purchasing, refurbishment, and new site acquisition. OTTO matches hospitality-specialist lenders who understand wet sales, food-led cover averages, and seasonal revenue. Working capital drawn in days, not weeks.

Agent: OTTO
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Compliance Monitoring

Premises licences, personal licences, food hygiene ratings, EHO registration, and Companies House filings, ZARA monitors all active deadlines and fires graduated alerts. No hospitality business should ever be caught off-guard by a licence breach or late filing fine.

Agent: ZARA
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Venue Acquisition Finance

Second site, event space, dark kitchen, or full venue acquisition, OTTO structures the right finance instrument for your expansion move. Lenders who understand hospitality EBITDA, rent-to-revenue ratios, and the complexity of licensed premises transactions.

Agent: OTTO

What hospitality businesses gain when AI runs the commercial layer.

"OTTO found us a working capital facility with a lender who understood our seasonal revenue pattern. No other broker had even tried."

144+ Lenders on OTTO's panel, including hospitality finance specialists

"We had a personal licence renewal coming up that we'd completely lost track of. ZARA caught it 30 days out. That's a business-ending fine avoided."

£12,500 Average compliance fine for licence breach, ZARA makes this avoidable

"LINC built us a pipeline of 40 qualified corporate prospects in the first two weeks. That's more than six months of manual prospecting."

Daily LINC B2B outreach, corporate hospitality prospects delivered automatically

"SME Growth Team's morning brief gives us finance position, compliance status, and pipeline, all in one summary before the kitchen opens."

60% Restaurants fail in year one, most in the compliance and cash flow gap SME Growth Team monitors
Deploy for Hospitality

Finance, compliance, pipeline.
Running before service.

Submit your details and we'll assess your hospitality business, configure OTTO, ZARA, and LINC to your operation, and have SME Growth Team active within days.

Every agent reports to SME Growth Team.

OTTO, ZARA, and LINC don't operate in silos. Every insight, every alert, every opportunity flows into SME Growth Team, your single morning brief covering finance, compliance, and pipeline. One command centre for your entire hospitality operation.

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