Food & Beverage Enterprises
We build brands people crave.

We build brands people crave.

An Australian family hospitality group. We build, run and grow food and drink brands, and have done since our first café in 2012.

Powering these brands

Piccolo Me
SolBowl
Go Dark Virtual Restaurants
Munchiverse
2012
first café opened
47
Piccolo Me stores
7
SolBowl stores
2
countries, Australia and Lebanon

One group. The whole day.

Some of these we started from scratch. Others we bought and grew. All of them are run by hospitality people.

A table of Piccolo Me dishes seen from above: a big breakfast, burgers, pancakes, salads and a coffee
06:00
Coffee & café · 47 stores

Our first brand and still our biggest. Good coffee and an all-day menu, in cafés, drive-thrus and quick-service stores.

Visit Piccolo Me →
The SolBowl range: an açaí bowl, a green smoothie, a poke bowl, a coffee and toast
12:00
Healthy food · 7 stores

Açaí bowls, smoothie bowls, poke, smoothies and porridge, all made from scratch. Love and passion are always in season.

Visit SolBowl →
Delivery boxes from Go Dark's virtual brands: a croissant burger with fries, loaded toast and pasta
21:00
Kitchens & virtual brands
Go Dark Virtual Restaurants

Go Dark

Delivery-only brands that run out of existing kitchens. We bring the brands and the orders. The kitchen does the cooking.

Visit Go Dark →
Hands holding a phone showing the Munchiverse app welcome screen
All day
Ordering & loyalty
Munchiverse

Munchiverse

One account for ordering and rewards across every brand in the group.

Visit Munchiverse →
Acquisitions

We build. We also buy and grow.

When we find a good chain, we bring it into the group, keep what works and put our systems behind it.

Acquired 2024 · stores
3 → 7

SolBowl

Three stores when it joined the group. Seven today.

Acquired 2026 · stores
5

Bean Bar

An Adelaide chain of five stores, joining Piccolo Me this year.

How we’re built

Built in-house. Grown with partners.

We create the brands, the menus and the technology ourselves. Stores are run by our own teams and by franchise partners, on one playbook.

Brands and IP
We own the brands, the recipes and the playbooks.
Stores
Run by our own teams and by franchise partners. Some partners run more than one store.
Technology
Munchiverse, our own ordering and loyalty platform, across every brand.
Growth
New stores, new franchise partners and acquired chains.
Harry, Roy and Charlie El Hachem standing in front of a FABE media wall
Harry, Roy and Charlie El Hachem
Family owned since 2012

Started with one coffee machine.

Founded by Harry El Hachem and his sons, Charlie and Roy, who grew up in hospitality and spent years behind the coffee machine. The first café opened at 10 Bridge Street in Sydney's CBD in 2012. The three of them still run the business today.

2012
First Piccolo Me café opens at 10 Bridge Street, Sydney.
2024
SolBowl joins the group.
2025
First international store, in Lebanon.
2026
Bean Bar’s five Adelaide stores join the group.
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