Corporate · Case study

A hospitality group

Creative and business intelligence work for a hospitality group with several restaurants and a festival arm that cooks over open fire. The client isn’t named here.

Four panels from the brand film: charcoal, hand-skewered cuts, slow roasting and carving to order

Brand film

Charcoal only. Low and slow.

Watch the brand film

A shorter cut, without the client’s name · Editing · Motion design · Sound

Creative work

What we made

Five cuts on one skewer, in kinetic typography from the brand film
Brand film
3D render of a festival food outlet in daylight, with fire panels along the counters and an open cooking lineEvent design
A proposal page showing a plated meal, next to the outlet’s front elevation and site planProposal
A large-format menu board, a menu card from the brand film and a set of custom iconsBrand & print
Covers of the plate building, food safety, cleaning and safety manuals, with one inside page about protective equipmentTraining
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Five cuts on one skewer, in kinetic typography from the brand film
01 · Brand film

A 30-second brand film

30s, 15s and 9:16 versions · Editing, motion design and sound

Built from kitchen and festival footage with bold kinetic typography and a custom sound mix, plus a 15-second cut and a vertical 9:16 version for social.

3D render of a festival food outlet in daylight, with fire panels along the counters and an open cooking line
02 · Event design

A festival outlet, in 3D

3D model and renders · Elevations and site plan to scale

The outlet designed for the group’s application to a major festival: 3D renders, a cooking-line detail and dimensioned plans that follow the event’s site rules.

A proposal page showing a plated meal, next to the outlet’s front elevation and site plan
03 · Proposal

A 46-page outlet proposal

Structure, copy and layout · Print-ready files

The printed portfolio that went with the application, telling the story of the outlet, the cooking theatre and the menu, laid out in InDesign and prepared for print.

Covers of the plate building, food safety, cleaning and safety manuals, with one inside page about protective equipment
05 · Training

Illustrated staff manuals

4 manuals · English and Portuguese · Custom illustrations

Four manuals for the group’s main kitchen, each in English and Portuguese, with a custom illustration set so every step is clear at a glance.

Food photography and festival footage that appear in these designs are not by GusPalette.

In detail

Plans, pages and print

3D render detail of the outlet cooking line with hanging cuts and rotating cradles
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Cooking line

3D detail of the rotisserie line.

Dimensioned front elevation drawing of the festival outlet
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Front elevation

Dimensioned drawing of the frontage.

Dimensioned site plan of the outlet seen from above
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Site plan

Cooking, service and storage to scale.

Proposal page showing a plated meat box
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Proposal

What the customer is handed.

A0 menu board for a T-bone, sweet corn and a pineapple lollipop
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Menu board

A0, read from the back of the queue.

Safety manual chapter page about protective equipment with an illustrated staff member
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Safety manual

Inside page: protective equipment.

A set of custom illustrated icons: crates, deliveries, orders, warnings, skewers and more
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Icon set

Custom icons for the operations app.

Business intelligence

Behind the brand, one personalised BI system brings the whole group's data together, so every decision starts from the same numbers.

What we built

A BI system for the whole group

Financial figures and internal data belong to the client and are not shown.

Integration

Point of sale, delivery, rostering, accounting and banking data brought together through APIs and automated imports.

One reporting model

Raw data kept as received, clear business rules on top, and every report reading from the same source.

Dashboards

Performance by store, event and month, with budget against actual, for owners and managers.

Automation

One click refreshes the data and exports the management report pack.

Operations app

A stock, purchasing and stocktake app designed for every site, with its own illustrated icon set.

Documentation

Every rule and decision written down, so the team can run and improve the system.

3D render of the outlet’s open cooking line

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