Colombo, Sri Lanka · Established café operator
Cafe Management Services (Pvt) Ltd is a Colombo-based operating company across three connected businesses: our own café brands, the commercial real estate they sit on, and consultancy for owners who need a working kitchen, a working P&L, or both.
What we do
Most consultants have never had to make payroll on a slow Tuesday. We operate our own cafés daily, which means every recommendation we give has already been tested on our own floor, our own kitchen and our own bank account.
We build and run our own café and bakery brands in high-footfall Colombo locations — full ownership of concept, kitchen, service, staffing and daily numbers.
We acquire, lease and hold commercial property suited to food and beverage, and partner with landlords who want a stable operator rather than a stream of short tenancies.
Consultancy, kitchen and menu development, and restructuring for cafés that are losing money, losing staff, or opening for the first time.
Operate
Our own outlets are the proving ground. Concept, costing, kitchen layout, supplier terms, rosters, service standards and daily reporting are all run in-house — and the same systems are what we hand to clients.
Own
Location decides more of a café's outcome than the coffee does. We take property seriously as its own business — acquiring and holding commercial space in established Colombo neighbourhoods, and working with landlords and investors on food and beverage developments.
Portfolio
Everything we advise on, we have already built for ourselves.
Halal café and cakery · Colombo
A full-service café and cakery built and operated in-house — kitchen, bakery, menu, branding, packaging, rosters and delivery platforms. Hazel is where our operating systems are written, tested and refined before they go anywhere else.
Landlords and property owners: if you have space that fits, we'd like to hear from you.
Café solutions
Whether you're opening your first café or trying to stop an existing one from bleeding, the work is the same: find where the money is going, fix the kitchen, fix the menu, fix the roster, and put reporting in place so it stays fixed.
New openings
We take a project end to end, or step in for the parts you don't want to handle. Most owners come to us after the lease is signed and the surprises have started.
Restructuring
A turnaround starts with an honest read of the numbers, not a rebrand. We look at food cost, labour cost, waste, pricing, menu mix and rent as a share of sales — then rebuild the parts that are broken and leave you with systems you can actually run.
Systems & reporting
Most cafés fail on record-keeping long before they fail on food. We build the day-to-day tools — rosters, stock sheets, goods-received tracking, sales dashboards and staff incentive models — so owners can see what happened yesterday without waiting for a monthly account.
How an engagement runs
We keep it sequential on purpose — nobody should be redesigning a menu before the numbers have been read.
A site visit and a conversation with the owner. Kitchen, floor, storeroom, and the last three months of sales.
Food cost, labour, rent, waste and menu mix, written up plainly with the problems ranked by what they cost you.
A fixed plan with owners, timelines and a budget. You decide what we execute and what your team executes.
Trained staff, working SOPs and live reporting — plus a follow-up review once it has run without us.
Contact
Whether it's a site you want to lease to us, a café you want to open, or one you want to save — send us the short version and we'll come back to you.
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