The Melly Group • Hospitality Consulting
Senior hospitality executive with 15 years building high-performance operations across nationally recognized brands.
About
I'm Christopher Melly. For 15 years I've led operations inside some of the most recognized restaurant groups in the country, from Fox Restaurant Concepts to Artisanal Brewers Collective to boutique hotel F&B.
My track record is built on P&L ownership, multi-unit scaling, and building leadership teams that outlast any single initiative. I've opened markets, fixed broken operations, and built systems that hold at scale.
I work with operators who have a real problem to solve or a genuine growth platform to build. That's where I do my best work.
What I Do
Diagnose what's broken, build the fix, and put systems in place so it stays fixed. P&L analysis, labor modeling, guest experience audits, and execution accountability.
If you're growing from 3 to 10 locations, the way you run today won't work tomorrow. I build the infrastructure, playbooks, and leadership pipelines that make growth sustainable.
Pre-opening strategy, team build, systems deployment, and market launch. I've opened flagship concepts from the ground up and can take a project from site selection to first cover.
Built management pipelines that produced the lowest turnover in large portfolios for multiple consecutive years. I develop GMs and ops leaders who don't need to be managed.
Re-concepting, menu strategy, service model redesign, and culture reset. When a concept has lost its footing, I help find the path back to relevance and profitability.
Need senior operator-level leadership while you search, restructure, or relaunch? I can step in at the Director or VP level and run the operation from day one.
Experience
Background
From founder-led independents to private equity-backed multi-concept groups, I've operated at every stage of growth and complexity.
Contact
If you have a growth problem, a people problem, or an operational problem worth solving, I want to hear about it.
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