12/06/2026
Volare in Maylands is closing!!!
If you only read the reviews, it doesn't make sense. Beautiful room. Great wine list. A crowd that kept coming back. The kind of place this city is supposed to want.
So why is it gone?
Here's what I know, because I've seen it more times than I can count, and this isn't specific to Volare but to the Perth hospitality scene as a whole.
A venue can look full and feel flat at the same time. Packed Friday nights, but the balance sheets are quietly bleeding. The room is alive, the team is running hot, the owner is pouring everything in, and the numbers underneath are telling a completely different story.
Inflation is real and it's here, hitting Perth hospo venues HARD! By the time anyone reads that story properly, the decisions have already been made for you.
Good venues don't close because of bad food or bad service, although that can be the case with some. They close because of misalignment. Pressure with no structure underneath it.
I take this personally.
Eight years ago, I rebuilt my life raising my daughter on my own, with no safety net and no luxury of being able to get it wrong. When you've had to be that precise with your own life, you can't look at a struggling business and see anything other than a person carrying too much without the right support.
This is exactly why AmiWho exists. Not traditional bookkeeping. A stabilising force inside high-pressure businesses. I step in fast, find what's actually happening beneath the surface, and put in the structure, financial clarity, and control to bring a business back into alignment, before the decisions get made for you.
To the Volare team: thank you for what you made. For the laughs, the memories, the good food and service.
And to every operator still in it: care isn't a system, and passion isn't a financial control. If you want to keep what you've built, build the structure to hold it.
And if you don't know how to start, hit me up!
