Our approach
As your owner's representative for real estate and construction, we sit on the operator's side of the table. Every recommendation is scored against the P&L, the schedule, and the patient or guest experience — not the fee. Whether you're opening one location or fifty, we bring the same discipline: clear scope, hard budgets, and honest reporting.
How we work
As your owner's representative, we run each phase with a defined scope, deliverables, and exit criteria — so leadership always knows where a project stands and what happens next.
Establish the operating model, budget, schedule, and success metrics before a single site is toured.
Screen sites, landlords, and consultants against your criteria — not ours.
Owner-side construction management with hard accountability on cost, schedule, and quality.
Close the project cleanly and hand a turnkey location to your operations team.
Guiding principles
We sit on your side of the table — every recommendation is scored against the P&L, not the fee.
Named after the brown bear. We move deliberately, and we don't spook when the market does.
One source of truth for budget, schedule, and risk — updated monthly, shared openly.
The same discipline works for a single flagship or a hundred-location rollout.
Meet the founder
Award-winning real estate and construction advisor. Founder of Orso Bruno Consulting. I help restaurants, retailers, grocers, and medical operators expand, build, and grow nationwide.
I founded Orso Bruno Consulting to bring a disciplined, owner-first approach to real estate and construction. As an owner's representative, I serve operators who are expanding from a single flagship to a hundred-location rollout.
My work sits on the operator's side of every negotiation — structuring leases, leveling bids, and managing design and construction so that each decision scores against the P&L, the schedule, and the guest or patient experience.
What Matthew and his team do
Sits on your side of the table from site selection through closeout.
Screen locations, structure LOIs, and negotiate terms that protect your capital.
Coordinate architects, engineers, and contractors around your operating model.
Build budgets, schedules, and monthly reports that keep leadership informed.
Help multi-unit operators sequence rollouts and deploy capital efficiently.
Keep exploring
How we work as an owner's representative for real estate and construction.
Site selection, lease negotiation, design and construction management, project controls.
Restaurants, retail, grocery, and medical — the formats we build every day.
Field notes on site selection, budgeting, phasing, and multi-unit rollouts.
Tell us what you're opening and we'll show you where our methodology fits.
