UK • MENA • ASEAN
PROVEN PRACTITIONERS.
NOT CAREER CONSULTANTS.
H3 works with founders, investors and boards to build, fix and scale food & beverage businesses - combining multiple decades of experience and senior leadership across 30+ countries.
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Our team has held senior leadership roles at some of the world's most respected hospitality and consumer brands.
Services
Investment Advisory & Transactions
For investors, acquirers and sellers.
Operator-grade diligence for F&B transactions. For investors: commercial and operational due diligence beyond the data room - site-level economics, management capability, supply chain exposure, the gap between deck and floor. For founders raising or exiting: clean unit economics, a defensible growth story, and leadership buyers trust.
Concept Development
For founders, developers and hospitality groups launching something new.
Concepts fail on economics more often than ideas. We build and pressure-test from first principles - positioning, menu architecture, labour model, site criteria, unit-level P&L - so what opens is built to replicate. For developers and landlords: F&B strategy, tenant mix, and operator selection for mixed-use and destination projects.
Operations Excellence
For operators whose growth has outrun their infrastructure.
We diagnose and fix the operational drag that erodes margin at scale - cost variance, inconsistent execution across sites, supply agreements that no longer fit. Reviews are run by people who've operated these businesses, and the systems hold after we leave.
Commercial & Growth Strategy
For boards and leadership teams deciding what's next.
Franchise or company-owned, which market, what pace - growth strategy grounded in unit economics, not ambition. Market entry, franchise model design, partner selection, pricing and channel strategy across delivery and retail.
Our Team
COLLECTIVE EXPERTISE
Our team brings together multiple decades of combined senior leadership across 30+ countries. Individually, we have held CEO, C-suite, and senior leadership roles roles at Yum!, Tasha's Group, The Minor Group, and Ennismore. Collectively, we bring a depth of real-world operating experience that no generalist consultancy can match. Get in touch to find out what that experience can do for your business.
Founder
Andy Holman
40 years leading international restaurant businesses through scale, turnaround and capital events.
"There is a big difference between gaining forty years of experience and experiencing the same year forty times." Across more than thirty countries, Andy has operated at senior level: not as a visitor, but as the person accountable for what happened next. QSR at scale across the Middle East and North Africa. Family and casual dining in Southeast Asia. Premium and fine dining in London. Fast casual, virtual brands, and multi-format portfolios in the Gulf. Each format different in its demands. Each market with its own logic, its own consumer, and its own definition of what good looks like. Starting in the bars, kitchens, and floors of iconic UK venues, and progressing through every level of operational leadership — from Unit, Area, Country, and Regional Manager at Yum! Restaurants International, to MD and Franchising VP at Minor International in Thailand, and CEO of a multi-brand franchise portfolio in Dubai — Andy has developed a rare and practical understanding of what it actually takes to deliver results and create value at every stage of a business. Across all of it — political instability, economic turbulence, post-acquisition complexity, a global pandemic — the consistent output was growth. Not projected. Not modelled. Delivered. H3 Advisory Partners was founded to put that depth of experience to work — for boards, family offices, and executive teams who need counsel grounded in the reality of what it actually takes to perform at scale across international markets.
Principals
— HISTORY
Our team brings senior leadership experience from globally respected brands including Yum! Restaurants International, The Minor Group, Bacardi, Diageo and Ennismore - with hands-on operational expertise spanning more than 30 countries.
— HORIZON
Active engagements in London, Dubai, and Bangkok, working with some of the region's most ambitious hospitality businesses - collectively representing hundreds of outlets across three continents.
— HEADROOM
We do not use templates. Every solution is bespoke to the site, the chef, and the capital structure. This precision is what separates a concept that survives from one that merely opens.
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H3 takes on a small number of retained clients each year. If you are building something serious, now is the time to talk. Get in touch for a confidential briefing: