Start With a Clearer Understanding of What Your Project Could Realistically Require.
KRG Hospitality’s 2026/27 Start-Up Cost Guides provide real-world cost intelligence to help you pressure-test your assumptions before leases, design, equipment, construction, financing, and other expensive commitments begin.
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The Hotel Start-Up Cost Guide
Understand the capital behind the keys.
Designed for economy, extended stay, midscale and select-service, upscale and full-service, luxury, and resort hotel projects.
Get 70+ pages covering five hotel categories, including cost-per-key intelligence, ROI considerations, and operational projections.
The Bar & Restaurant Cost Guide
Build a better budget before you build the business.
Designed for coffee shops, QSRs, restaurants, bars, and nightclubs.
Get 50+ pages of start-up cost intelligence, including cost considerations, revenue-per-square-foot guidance, and three-year financial projections across different concepts and venue sizes.
More Than an Internet Cost Estimate
These are the 7th annual editions of KRG Hospitality’s Start-Up Cost Guides, developed using proprietary insights from more than 300 hospitality projects and over 16 years of consulting experience. They are built to help you:
Establish a more realistic early-stage capital range.
Pressure-test assumptions before major commitments.
Compare different project categories and operating models.
Have stronger conversations with investors, designers, contractors, and advisors.
Identify where deeper feasibility and planning may be required.
Better information creates better questions. Better questions create better decisions.
Who They Are For
Founders and Entrepreneurs.
Understand the financial realities behind the vision.
Existing Operators.
Benchmark expansion, relocation, renovation, or new-concept assumptions.
Developers and Investors.
Pressure-test early capital expectations before committing resources.
Designers and Contractors.
Add hospitality-specific context to early project conversations.
Lenders and Advisors.
Better understand the capital considerations behind hospitality development.
Start With the Numbers. Then Build The Strategy.
A cost guide is not a feasibility study, business plan, construction estimate, or substitute for project-specific professional advice.
It is an early decision-making tool.
One designed to help you determine whether your assumptions deserve greater confidence, greater scrutiny, or deeper planning before significantly more money is committed.
These guides are founded upon KRG Hospitality’s proprietary database of previous project costs, which includes project data from restaurants, bars, hotels developed over the past 24 months. Drawing upon this comprehensive guide, an industry leading expert has analyzed the information and provided a succinct and user-friendly summary of the findings for each major start-up category. While using this guide helps develop a rough preliminary financial and strategic milestone plan, it is strongly recommended that you seek professional expert advice to provide a more precise, project-specific estimate as each concept and market will be slightly different. KRG Hospitality Inc. is therefore not responsible for any project that is not currently under contract with the company.