Owner's Representation for Hospitality Asset Ownership and Stakeholders

You own the property. We make sure it is run the way you would run it if you were there every day.

Gravity Talent Partners provides owner's representation for people who own restaurants, inns, hotels and hospitality portfolios but do not operate them themselves. Investors, family offices, developers, estates, first time buyers, and founders who have stepped back. If you have ever looked at a monthly statement and wondered what is actually happening inside the building, this is the service built for that question.

What we do on your behalf

We sit in the owner's chair. On a flat monthly retainer we walk your properties, run unannounced audits of food and beverage inventory, pricing and cost sheets, and menu engineering, review team performance, and verify that what the operators are telling you matches what the numbers and the floor are saying. Every month you receive a written report with findings and advisements, and everyone under the roof is held accountable to your interest, not their own.

Built around your property, not a package

A single restaurant, a six unit group, an inn with a dining room, a full service hotel, or a portfolio across several states. We scale the engagement to what you own and what it needs, and we adjust as that changes. There is no minimum size and no template. Whatever oversight your assets require, we build it and we show up.

Why it pays for itself

The retainer runs about what one manager costs per location per year. The difference is that a manager works for the operator. We work for you. Recovered margin, corrected inventory, tightened pricing and sharper execution are where the money comes back, and owners see it in the first quarter.

The person doing the work

Mike Romano spent 18 years running multi unit, full service hospitality operations before founding Gravity Talent Partners in 2013, and has spent the years since placing the executives who run restaurant and hotel companies. He knows what a well run property looks like from the inside and what it looks like when it is quietly slipping. When a fix requires a new leader, the firm's executive search practice is already in the room.

Related engagements

Owners and CEOs also retain us for a standing advisory seat, an independent voice on the highest weight decisions with no internal politics, and for transition oversight during an acquisition, a management change, or a sale.

Start with a conversation

Every engagement begins with a review of what you own and what you are seeing. No fee, no commitment.