Two years ago, the New Zealand steakhouse with an African name made an ambitious play for the Australian steakhouse market, alongside sibling restaurant White + Wong’s. Now the business is experiencing one of the biggest hospitality shake-outs of 2024.
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The New Zealand steakhouse with an African name has aggressively opened restaurants on the eastern seaboard, lifting one critic’s eyebrows with a 1.6-kilogram wagyu tomahawk covered in gold leaf at $500 a head.
Joint administrator Duncan Clubb from audit and accounting organisation BDO was unavailable for comment, but released a statement saying BDO had been appointed to Good Group Hospitality in recent days.
“The administrators are undertaking an urgent assessment of the companies and if possible,…
