How to start a restaurant 10 Articles

by Brandon Shire

So you want to open a restaurant. Read the other articles listed here first, and if you're still interested, come back and read this. As you will have noted the restaurant business is not easy, money is always a problem, ...read more

by Scott Smyth

How to start a restaurant? That is a question I have pondered over on many an occasion, or rather, how do I start a restaurant? The fact of the matter is that there is no real answer to this. No real tried and tested metho...read more

by Zach Bigalke

An instructor at culinary school posed this question to myself and my fellow students: What is the quickest, easiest way to amass a small fortune in the restaurant-ownership business? Students bandied about many answers. ...read more

by Ann Krier

Starting a restaurant is a culture and lifestyle change if you are not already in the industry you can expect to work VERY hard, and VERY long hours for several months before realizing any profit - that is if you survive. ...read more

by Benjamin Day

Starting a restaurant is not only about cooking good food, though good food makes up for a lot it is no the sole purpose of a restaurant. One of the most important this is to find good location,of course I don't need to t...read more

by John Worthington

Many people fail in the restaurant business before they even start by not having any savings, or Earnest money, not taking advantage of their corporate status, spending too much money on equipment, negotiating a bad lease ...read more

by David Gurdus

So many times I hear how a person wants to open a restaurant, that they love to cook and how wonderful it would be to own a restaurant. Funny thing about restaurants- they don't always succeed and they are not always very ...read more

by Lorri Mealey

Do you love to cook? Do you love to entertain? Have you ever been told that you should open up your own restaurant? If so then you are among a majority of people who are under the innocent impression that the resta...read more

by T.F. Edge

Anyone of legal age and some capital can open a restaurant. Lease a building, order some equipment, hire staff and buy some food. Your restaurant is open. Between 90 and 95 percent of all restaurants fail in the first y...read more

by Pouria Amiri

My advice on how to open a restaurant... first consider the facts: 1. 30-40% of all restaurants fail within the first year. 2. It is a year around job, you are never truly "off" 3. food cost approx. 30% Labor ...read more