A beverage and hospitality consultancy built on 30+ years in five-star hotels and award-winning bars. We help venues sell better, run smoother and keep their standards when the team changes.
Based in Bali · Available across Southeast & South Asia
The problem we solve
The team doesn’t recommend, upsell or tell the story behind the drinks.
Pours drift, waste and variance go unseen, and cost creeps up month by month.
No specs, SOPs or numbers that survive the next staff change.
A beautiful menu earns nothing if the team can’t sell it and nobody is watching the numbers behind it.
The proof
Who we are
Co-founder
Jan has run bars where every detail counts: Four Seasons Bali, Capella Singapore, Michelin-starred CUT by Wolfgang Puck and the pre-opening of Patina Maldives. Today he owns venues in Bali, so he knows what every pour takes and what it earns.
Co-founder
From London openings like The Leafy Elephant and Park Row to the bar programmes at the Waldorf Hilton and Four Seasons Bali, Paul creates award-winning drinks and stellar teams. Consulting independently since 2023.
Awards & recognition
Awards & recognition
Drinks from our bars
Three ways we work
For venues building something new
Lease and site check, beverage concept, menus and specs, service flow, bar layout and equipment, hiring, team and manager training, opening support.
2–6 months
For venues that have lost their edge
Concept refresh, new beverage programme, service redesign, team retraining and relaunch support.
6–12 weeks
For busy venues not making the money they should
Audit and mystery guest, menu engineering and costing, stock and cost control, sales and manager coaching, monthly tracking.
4–8 weeks, then monthly
The building blocks
1–2 days on site, a mystery-guest visit and a prioritised action plan. Fee credited toward any project.
Cocktails, low-ABV, wine, coffee and wellness drinks, with specs and full costing.
The guest journey from arrival to the bill: steps, pace and the moments that sell.
Live shift coaching for the team; stock, GP% and KPI training for managers, with AI tools that cut their admin time.
A monthly P&L and cost report built with AI tools, scorecard reviews, coaching and a menu review.
A bar-side review of layout, utilities and lease terms, before you sign.
AI implementation
Everyone wants the benefit. Few teams have the time to learn it. We set it up around the work your managers already do, then train them to use it.
Ready-made prompts and simple workflows for costing, stock variance, ordering, rotas and monthly reporting.
Hands-on sessions with your managers, using your own menus, invoices and sales data, in English or the team’s own language.
Monthly check-ins so the tools stay in use, plus a prompt library your team keeps when we leave.
Works with what you already use: spreadsheets, POS exports and Google Drive or OneDrive files. No new software contract needed.
Our own standard
Scored at the audit, at launch and every month after, so your managers coach to numbers and you see the progress.
Welcome, pace, recommendations, the feeling on the way out
Consistency against spec, presentation, temperature, dilution
Product knowledge, selling confidence, teamwork under pressure
Specs, SOPs, ordering, opening and closing routines
Pour accuracy, waste, variance, cost %
Beverage share of sales, spend per guest, menu mix
How we work
A call, then an on-site audit. We record your baseline score and numbers.
Concept, menus, service and systems built for your venue and your margins.
On-the-floor coaching and launch support. We train the managers who stay.
Scorecard and numbers reviewed at 30, 60 and 90 days, then monthly.
Most consultants hand over a menu and leave. We stay until the numbers move.
Recent clients
Restaurant · full beverage revamp
New cocktail and mocktail menu, specs and costing, bar operations, glassware and tools, staff training, four weeks of post-launch support.
Multi-venue café group · day drinks
Low-ABV cocktails, smoothies, juices, coffee and healthy drinks, costing and operations, multi-venue training, four weeks of support.
Get in touch
Tell us about your venue in about three minutes. We read every answer ourselves and come back to you within 24 hours to book a free 20-minute call, where we tell you honestly where we can help. The audit fee comes off any larger project.
Instagram @beyond_the_craftBased in Bali, available across Southeast and South Asia.
