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Money & Contracts
Budgets, contracts, draws, allowances, and the paperwork that decides who pays for what.
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Cost per Key, Cost per Seat — Handle With Care
The hospitality industry compresses whole build-outs into one number — cost per key for hotels, cost per seat for restaurants. Useful shorthand, dangerous arithmetic. A Budget Desk piece on what the ratios genuinely tell you and the five ways they lie.
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Fixed Price, Cost-Plus, GMP — What the Contract Decides Before Work Starts
Before a wall moves, the construction contract has already decided who carries price risk, who profits from surprises, and what your monthly money meetings will feel like. A plain-language tour of the three contract structures a hospitality owner will actually be offered.
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The Change-Order Economy
Change orders are where fit-out budgets actually die — not in the bid, but in the drip of mid-project paperwork that reprices the job one signature at a time. How the change-order economy works, why it prices the way it does, and how owners keep it honest.
