HDA · Hospitality Development Arabia
HDA is a Saudi development and operating platform focused on hospitality, food, culinary education and related ventures.
We identify opportunities, develop the commercial and operating model, bring together the right technical partners, build the capability required to execute, and remain involved as businesses move from concept into operation and growth.
01About
HDA was created as a permanent platform for developing businesses, operating capability and long-term value in Saudi hospitality and food.
HDA works between strategy and execution. It shapes the commercial case and stays close to the kitchen, the supply chain, the people and the systems that decide whether a business performs once it opens.
The role HDA takes, and the legal structure behind it, is set venture by venture. Not every business or initiative is structured the same way.
02Background
HDA is built on more than 30 years of executive, commercial and operational experience, combined with professional culinary training and direct hospitality-sector experience.
HDA approaches strategy through operating reality. A plan earns its place only when it holds up against cost, labour, supply, standards and the daily discipline of service.
What does it take to make the business work in the real world?
03What we build
HDA builds new ventures, the people who run them and the systems that hold them together.
A venture moves through nine stages. HDA can lead or support each one, and brings in technical partners where the venture needs them.
Professional culinary education, chef development, international technical partnerships and Saudi workforce capability. The aim is a deeper pool of Saudi talent with the skills, standards and judgement that professional kitchens require.
Direct work with owners, investors and operators on the commercial and operational detail of a hospitality business.
04Portfolio
The current businesses, initiatives and workstreams. Each keeps its own identity and structure, with HDA providing the development work behind it.
A Subsidiary of HDA
Premium seafood, fish butchery and value-chain development
Blue Food is being developed around:
HDA leads the concept development, technical relationships and operating planning.
A Subsidiary of HDA
Chef and culinary education platform
Chef Haks is the public platform of Chef Haytham Al Shareef: Executive Chef, culinary educator and Founder and Managing Director of HDA.
It offers two short assessments. One helps investors and operators check whether a hospitality project is ready. The other helps aspiring chefs plan a structured culinary pathway.
The next new initiative from Hospitality Development Arabia.
Building professional capability for Saudi hospitality
HDA is working on programme development, international technical partnerships, chef development and Saudi workforce capability. The work focuses on the practical skills and professional standards that Saudi kitchens and hospitality businesses need.
Supporting businesses from concept through operation
HDA works directly with investors and operators where a business needs concept development, commercial structure, systems, recruitment, training, technical partners and launch support.
05Structure
HDA is the common development layer. The work beneath it takes different forms, and each keeps its own legal structure.
Common HDA disciplines
06How we work
HDA's operating focus is Saudi Arabia. It works with international technical partners, operators, educators, suppliers and specialist businesses where their capability strengthens the Saudi model.
HDA develops the commercial thesis, business model and operating plan, and stays involved as the business opens and grows.
Concept development, commercial structure, systems, recruitment, training and launch support for hospitality and food businesses.
International specialists bring proven capability into the Saudi model, with knowledge transfer planned in from the start.
07Leadership
Founder & Managing Director
Haytham brings more than 30 years of executive and commercial experience across multiple industries. He trained professionally at Le Cordon Bleu London.
His current focus is hospitality development, culinary education, restaurant strategy, and seafood and food ventures in Saudi Arabia.
08Contact
HDA works with
Email hello@hdaunited.com