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How to Open a Restaurant Resource Guide
One of the most often asked questions we get is on how to open a restaurant. Whether you are a newbie to the industry or a seasoned veteran, the requirements for running a restaurant differ from those needed to open a restaurant.
The How to Open a Restaurant Resource Guide is a listing of resources and tools we offer to help would-be restaurateurs systematically prepare and execute a successful restaurant opening.
Here is a step-by-step listing of resources to help you plan your restaurant opening.
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Restaurant Startup Checklist
Opening a restaurant means dealing with a myriad of details and activities. Missing a critical step or activity can mean delays, cost overruns or worse. Use this 300+ point checklist from 12 months out ...
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New Restaurant Business Plan Template - Graphics Enhanced Version
A well-conceived, professional restaurant business plan is your greatest single asset for turning your restaurant dreams into reality. It's the key to convincing anyone to invest money, make a loan, lease ...
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Business Plan Financial Models - Tableservice
To the majority of potential lenders and investors, the financial section will be the most important part of your business plan. Even if the other sections of your plan are impeccable, the financials ...
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How to Create a Winning Restaurant Business Plan
Many RestaurantOwner.com members cite that having a sound business plan was the single most important ingredient in making their new business a reality. During the startup phase, your business plan will ...
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How to Create Realistic Financial Projections for Your New Restaurant
Some would argue that the financial projection is the business plan. Why bother building a restaurant if it's not going to make any money? For potential investors and lenders, the financials are often ...
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New Restaurant Opening Startup Guide
The New Restaurant Opening (NRO) Startup Guide is your ultimate resource for scoping, strategizing, planning, and executing your restaurant expansion. From concept to grand opening, this guide provides ...
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How to Reduce the Risk of Opening a New Restaurant
Understanding and considering this one ratio may be the key to keeping you from making an unwise startup decision. Learn how chain operators use this ratio to identify marginal locations and reduce the ...
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10 Common Restaurant Startup Mistakes (and how to avoid them)
In any new business venture good decision-making is vital. Opening a new restaurant requires so many decisions that it's not hard to make some bloopers along the way. The key is not totally missing the ...
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A License and Permit Checklist for Startup Restaurants
Starting a restaurant entails obtaining numerous licenses and permits before opening the doors. Unfortunately, you may not know all that are required for your location. A checklist is a good place to ...
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How to Design Your Restaurant's Floorplan
Getting from the dream to a solid concept and then to an operating restaurant is a challenge. Don't let the excitement and energy of creating your new restaurant cause you to overlook or rush by design ...
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How Independent Operators Finance Their Restaurants
Financing or raising enough startup capital is often the biggest challenge in making your first restaurant a reality. Find out how over 400 independent operators financed their restaurant and what advice ...
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Restaurant Leasing Checklist
A real estate lease agreement is one of the most important and far-reaching document you'll ever sign. Our Restaurant Real Estate Leasing Checklist is designed to help you ask the right questions and ...
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Managing the Restaurant Opening Process: Why You Can't Afford To Lose Control & How To Do It
Opening a restaurant can be overwhelming, ESPECIALLY if you've never done it before! Learn what restaurant pros, involved in hundreds of openings, do and the tools they use to stay organized and dramatically ...
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Restaurant 90-Day Preopening Planning Chart
The final 90 days before the scheduled opening are onsidered the most critical to achieve a successful debut. Use this Gantt chart style form to create your own 90-day critical path plan for managing ...
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Restaurant Preopening Weekly Task Sheet
The key to keeping your restaurant's opening schedule on track is to take it one week at a time. Project managers who excel in weekly planning are more likely to make a predetermined opening date than ...
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How to Overcome Common Startup Challenges in the First Six Months of Operation
Issues at recently opened restaurants are often unique situations but by listening to numerous voices of experience the author has seen many of the same challenges over and over again. This article will ...
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How to Design the Seating Capacity of a Restaurant Dining Room
How do you configure a new dining room? One of the industry's top startup consultants shows how to make the most of what you have and avoid making any major mistakes.
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How to Find Investors & Raise Startup Capital for Your First Restaurant
If you have a restaurant concept that will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to open, then chances are you'll need more capital than what a bank is willing to loan you. The logical alternative is ...
