Plan a Restaurant

Learn restaurant planning essentials: concept development, menu design, and operational structure.

Assess Competition from Local Businesses

It is important to fully understand what competition there is in your local region. For a new restaurant, business competition is not just from local restaur...

Government Support for a Restaurant Start Up

There is plenty of business support available for all types of start up operations, and restaurants are no exception. However, in order to gain the benefits...

Is There a Right Time to Open a Restaurant?

Just as there are certainly bad time to open a restaurant – Christmas Eve, the middle of a recession and the first day of the World Cup spring to mind –...

Should You Be Chef or Restaurant Manager?

Deciding to open your own restaurant is such a major decision that you have probably been thinking about it for some time. Most people that chose to start a...

What Can Go Wrong in the Restaurant Business?

The bottom line is that setting up a new restaurant is a risk. All businesses are a risk, of course, but a disproportionately large number of restaurants go...