Simple tips to build a successful restaurant

Everyone wants to make money every month or every two weeks, for example, be an employee of a company, or an online business, open a coffee shop; some even opened the restaurant with special dishes. Many celebrities or fans of good food which eventually opened a successful restaurant, but the restaurant business is a high-risk business. Although risky, but people do not give up to open a new restaurant elsewhere. Sometimes trial and error is indeed the case, and your restaurant, eventually becoming a favorite dining spot in your city.

Are you also a fan of delicious food? And often curious about the recipes that you enjoy being in a restaurant or cafe? If you are curious too often, you will definitely try to cook it. It turns out that you are good at cooking, and then you think to create your own restaurant. You also know that opening a restaurant is no risk to fail, then you shut because of the number of customers is very little, so you do not successfully make a profit to cover operating costs.

A restaurant and bar in the area of ​​Neve Tzedek in Tel Aviv, Israel. Image: yourway.co.il

Do you want to open a steak restaurant or a sushi restaurant even though you are not Japanese? Why not?

Not all Chinese restaurants or a Greek restaurant owned by native-born people of Chinese or Greece. There are Koreans who success with pastry shops and bakery with recipes from France. As well as the music, the food and beverages is a universal language. If you want, though you are an Englishman, you can create a restaurant with a typical of Indian cuisine.  

The opportunity to open a restaurant now is getting bigger, because more and more people eating out, there is also a new trend, which is a culinary tour in various groups and communities.

 Are you going to let this opportunity is taken by your friends?

Owning a successful restaurant could be one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of your life. Therefore, before you build a restaurant, then you must make a good planning, proper financial preparation, and hard work, then your dream as a successful restaurant owner will be realized.

The main thing is to be prepared when building a restaurant other than the availability of finance, is how you determine what type of food or a list of menus that will serve you, even in this modern era you have to specify the theme of your restaurant. You will also be required to specify your target market. After that, do you already have a clue about the location of your restaurant? Are you still looking for a traditional location, which is at the corner of a shop complex, or in a luxury mall?

 

A cafe in Prague, Europe. Image: praguepost.com

Location is very important to the success of a restaurant. There are several factors to consider when searching for that perfect restaurant location, Including population base, local employment figures and accessibility, and other factors such as other competitors that already exist in the location you want. Make sure that your menu will offer are more unique and different from your competitors.

Creative and innovative

Opening a restaurant in this digital age is not only providing menus, chairs and tables for the guests. The interior design of your restaurant is also very important, so guests feel comfortable to sit and order food and beverages available on your menu. Lighting and atmosphere of the restaurant can affect the mood of your customers. If you want to give the sound of the music to your customer, then make sure the sound is not too loud so that the customers who are talking do not have to shout when talking to their friends or family.

Once your guests order food, make sure you are not too long a wait. What often happen are often too long beverages delivered by waiters, often late coming so that guests become upset. The timing of receipt of order processing should make the guests comfortable. Certainly it's very pleasant if your customers do not wait too long, just for a glass of orange juice.

Election waitress also played a key role so that your restaurant crowded with customers. Make sure you do not hire a waiter who is difficult to smile. Business in the area of ​​the restaurant is the same as other service businesses such as banks, cafes, hotels, airlines or shops selling smartphone or gadget. Your smile and your friendliness of the waiters are there main income source of your restaurant. There are many customers who come again and again because a restaurant has a friendly waiter or manager.

Important note: Of all the aspects that you already know, the legal aspects and also ensure the health aspects of your restaurant, which is subject to the rules and laws that exist in the city or your government.

As with any other business in general, the promotion and innovation is very important. When you open a restaurant, make sure you are ready with a brochure or flyer you circulate regularly to people passing around your restaurant. Create an account on Twitter and Facebook or other social media networks so that you eat more and more known in the virtual world, so that they are more familiar with your business. Innovation is often done creative restaurant owner is to create a new menu or create a fusion menu, even dare to omit the list of foods that are rarely ordered, then replace with a more interesting menu.

To support the promotion of your restaurant, then you need to create a website or a blog about your restaurant, and you have to update your website regularly so easy to search, or friendly to the search engines like Google, Yahoo, Baidu, and so on. If your website is full of visitors, then you will have a chance to get the customers from abroad such as businessmen and foreign tourists. Eventually your restaurant  will be known internationally.

 

Fantastic lunch in Kintamani, Bali. Image: thebalitrip.com

Basically the owner of the restaurant had to be creative and constantly improving service, so you are the first choice restaurant every hungry person in your town. 

It's important to visit other restaurants in your city or outside the city, so you always have a comparison and could learn from the uniqueness of the other restaurants or cafes. This is very important so that you can make innovation and continuous improvement.

If you've got sufficient savings, make sure you set aside money for a vacation abroad to bring more information to you about a good restaurant, for example, enjoy lunch in Bali, and drink coffee in a cafe in Prague or in dinner in Tel Aviv. Your experience will enrich your ideas to develop your restaurant business in the future, you can even have a chance to open branches or sell franchises abroad.