New 26-Week Playbook Puts the Decisions Behind Opening a UK Salon, Café or Bar in the Right Order

LONDON - Rezul -- Opening a salon, café or bar usually goes wrong in the sequencing, not the concept. The money is committed before the licence is understood, or the fit-out starts before the staffing plan exists. Launch Your Venue: The Step-by-Step Playbook for Opening a Salon, Café or Bar in the UK, a new guide by entrepreneur and author Denry Okpor, is built around fixing that.

The book sets out a 26-week timeline from first idea to opening night and takes each decision in the order an operator will actually face it. Readers work through startup costs, premises decisions, licensing and planning basics, fit-out, hiring, and what to do when the plan slips. It covers England and Wales and has been updated for 2026.

"They struggle on the order of decisions: cash, licensing, fit-out and people," Okpor said of most new venues. "I wrote the book I wish I'd had, a clear week-by-week plan, not a motivational speech."

The guide is aimed at first-time founders opening a nail or beauty salon, barbershop, café, cocktail bar, restaurant or hybrid venue, and at owners adding a second site. Alongside the master timeline it includes ready-to-use templates and checklists.

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Okpor writes from the operator's side of the counter. He designed, built and ran the Sips Nail Spa & Bar venues in Stratford, Mayfair and Croydon, where nail spa treatments were paired with a cocktail bar.

Launch Your Venue is independently published (109 pages; ISBN-13 979-8-1609-6803-2). It is available in paperback and on Kindle from Amazon UK.

About Denry Okpor
Denry Okpor is a UK-based entrepreneur, author, actor and property investor who has founded and run several businesses, including Sips Nail Spa & Bar. He is also the author of No One Is Coming (2026) and played Uncle K in the 2013 short film Squeeze.

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