Before You Open a Hospitality Business -
Ask Yourself the Harder Questions.
You may want to open a restaurant, bar, café, boutique hotel, or food and beverage concept.
But are you truly ready to own one?
In most workplaces, there is an interview before someone is trusted with a leadership role. There is a process to determine whether they have the mindset, capacity, emotional discipline, and decision-making ability required for the position.
Ownership does not come with that process.
There is no formal interview before you sign a lease. No personal readiness assessment before you invest your savings. No structured conversation before you take on debt, hire a team, impact families, and step into one of the most demanding industries in business.
Until Now.
The Readiness Interview
The Hospitality Readiness Interview offered by KRG Hospitality and led by Jennifer Radkey, was created to help aspiring and early-stage hospitality owners assess the person behind the business before the pressure, money, and consequences become real.
This is not a motivational session.
This is not just encouragement.
This is not a green light.
It is a structured, honest, and deeply practical readiness interview designed to help you understand how prepared you are for the personal demands of hospitality ownership.
Clarity Before Costs
Opening a hospitality business affects more than just your bank account.
It affects your time, your relationships, your confidence, your leadership capacity, your energy, your family, your employees, your investors, and your future.
The Hospitality Readiness Interview helps you step back and ask the questions most founders avoid until they are already overwhelmed.
Self Reflection
Do you understand what ownership will demand from you?
Are you prepared to lead under pressure?
Can you make hard decisions without becoming reactive?
Do your expectations match the reality of the industry?
Are you building this business for the right reasons?
Are you clear on how this decision will impact your lifestyle, capacity, and long-term goals?
This work is about readiness, self-awareness, and informed decision-making before real money and real lives are affected. In an industry where pressure is constant, margins are tight, and leadership gaps become expensive quickly, self-awareness is not a luxury. It is a requirement.
Who Is This For?
The Hospitality Readiness Interview is designed for those who:
Are considering opening a restaurant, bar, café, hotel, or hospitality concept and want an honest personal assessment before moving forward.
Are early in the ownership journey and already feeling stretched, overwhelmed, or unsure where the pressure is coming from.
Want more than surface-level encouragement before making major business decisions.
Value accountability, clarity, reflection, and practical insight.
Want to build something sustainable, both operationally and personally.
Understand that leadership, mindset, and personal capacity directly impact business performance.
Are willing to do the internal work now to protect the business they want to build later.
If you are willing to look at yourself as closely as you look at the concept, numbers, design, and brand, this interview will be valuable.
What’s Included?
The Hospitality Readiness Interview is a structured coaching experience designed to uncover mindset strengths, readiness gaps, and personal alignment before you move deeper into hospitality ownershipIt includes:
A detailed readiness assessment with 45 questions across 9 mindset and ownership topics.
A 2-hour 1-on-1 video interview with Jennifer Radkey.
A guided discussion around your mindset, expectations, strengths, gaps, leadership patterns, and ownership alignment.
A recorded copy of the interview for your own review, reflection, and continued growth.
This is not a personality quiz. This is a real conversation about what hospitality ownership will require from you.
“I had a phenomenal experience working with Jennifer Radkey! Out of the half-dozen or so coaches I’ve worked with in my professional career, Jennifer ranks among the very best. One of the things that I really enjoyed about working with Jennifer was the absence of “fluff.” Every session was high-focus, high-content, high-value. Jennifer knows how to drill through noise, nonsense, and distractions to get right to the core drivers of complex issues, and this provided immense value throughout our coaching calls.”
– Teo.
Why You Need This
Hospitality will test you.
It will test your patience, your confidence, your communication, your decision-making, your financial discipline, your leadership, and your ability to stay grounded when pressure builds.
A strong roadmap, concept, and thoughtful business strategy matters.
Clear financials, systems, branding, marketing, technology, and operations all matter.
But none of it works if the person leading the business is not prepared for the demands of ownership.
The Hospitality Readiness Interview helps you understand whether you are ready to move forward, where you may need further support, and what capacity needs to be built before you take the next major step.
This clarity can protect your investment, your relationships, your team, and the future business you are trying to build.
Book Your Spot Today
Book your Hospitality Readiness Interview with Certified Life Coach, Jennifer Radkey, and move forward with more clarity, self-awareness, and confidence.
Want the full pre-open assessment package? Get the KRG Roadmap + Hospitality Readiness Interview!