Dream. Plan. Execute.
Comprehensive hospitality consulting focused on lasting success, creative concepts and business sustainability.
We’re On A Mission.
The hospitality industry is facing its most challenging time in history. Businesses built on slim margins and outdated labor models have been devastated, and for many there is not a clear path forward. It is time to re-think what a successful business looks like and re-envision how the restaurant community will thrive in the future.
Our mission is to leave the hospitality industry better than we found it. Through comprehensive and thoughtful consulting, we hope to create not just successful and sustainable individual businesses, but a more healthy and sustainable industry as well.
With over 40 years of combined hospitality experience, Northlands Consulting provides guidance, planning and systems to ensure you have the tools you need to be successful for the long haul.
Proven Success.
Jonathan Gans and Josh Hoyt are each among the most talented leaders I’ve worked with, and combined they’re a hospitality dream team.
—Eric Dayton (Owner, The Bachelor Farmer)
Jonathan has a rare combination of skills. He is a master of strategy, culinary skill, and financial acumen.
— Ellen Palmer (VP Finance and Operations, Northcorp)
Although it’s been less than a decade since the doors opened, the Bachelor Farmer has quickly evolved into a dining institution. Owners and siblings Eric Dayton and Andrew Dayton were wise to entrust their enterprise to Gans.
— Rick Nelson (The Star Tribune)
Josh played a pivotal role in our openings and we never once missed an opening date. Josh led the leadership team while writing and coordinating opening plans including restaurant design and set up, training programs, hiring team members, writing opening timelines, ensuring the opening was smooth and well coordinated, and ensuring the culture of the company was present with new staff. He ensured every store was prepared and ready to wow our new guests in our new neighborhoods. I highly recommend Josh for his skills of opening a new restaurant.
— Joe Walvoord (Director of Operations, Red Cow & Red Rabbit)
Hospitality Lives In The Twin Cities.
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