Have you noticed that while starting out with anything, one always takes the first step by mapping out a guide, a blueprint or an outline? Be it an idea for the best invention or starting your work plan for the week, all these starts with an outline.

Now let’s get to restaurants. How are they any different? You may envision the theme, the food, the crowd and everything else. But without a proper blueprint or a plan, let’s just say a minor incident could serve as a major setback on your path to scaling further.

If you do not have a restaurant business plan, a minor issue such as staffing, menu upgrades, and customer inflow could setback your progress to profit and serve your audience.

Even though the plan serves to benefit you and your restaurant operations, having a thought-out restaurant business plan is effective in the long run. In this blog, we’ll explain the components of a restaurant business plan, how to map it out and its effective usage to drive your restaurant to success.

7 elements to Ace your restaurant business plan
From our end, we assure you that we have been in the same place, before sketching out a small restaurant business plan. A paper in front of us, pen in hand and countless questions across different departments or sectors of the restaurant. Rather than the specific questions such as the number of staff you may have overall, it’s best to start out with the general questions and topics that provide an outline of the restaurant.

1. Summary and description of the restaurant
Starting out with a summary and a description of the common elements of the restaurant provide an overview of the entire concept. This is the main billboard that advertises your restaurant and brings potential investors to the rest of your business plan. The common elements to include in a small restaurant business plan include,

A mission statement that describes what your business it, who it caters to, and how it may function in its existence
Overview of concept
Proposed execution plan
Labour and overhead costs
Return on Investment
To provide an example, one can start out with,

Cinnamon house is a 100-seat small restaurant that focuses on desserts from across the world.

A simple, cafe type of decor with photos of places around the world will be used, with specially skilled chefs in dessert making and servers to handle the customers.

The location is estimated to be in a colony that has a demand for desserts and is a frequently visited place by customers across town, hence the estimate of ROI is around 30 percent per annum.

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