Open your restaurant with confidence
Everything to prepare for the opening of your restaurant: step by step guides, thematic articles, the best software, the Melba application and other resources
How to open a restaurant?
Every day, three people in France take the plunge and open their restaurant. 60% of them close their doors after three years. Before opening a restaurant, it's essential to think about and complete the different steps that will make you successful:
- How to find the idea for your future restaurant?
- Prepare your business plan
- Training to succeed in opening a restaurant
- Grants and subsidies
- Administrative procedures
- Identifying HR needs and recruiting qualified staff
- Equip your kitchen
- Advertise the opening of your restaurant
The ultimate guide to opening a restaurant in 2021
Prepare your menu
Prepare your menu and quickly calculate your profitability
Structure and standardize your business knowledge for better collaboration
Enhance your recipe data with nutritional and allergenic information
Identify the right ingredients and lay the foundation for your supplier relationships
Implement hygiene and traceability procedures
HACCP, Sanitary Control Plan, labeling: manage your hygiene and traceability
Apply the HACCP method and respect the legal obligations
Prepare your labeling to track your products
Define your traceability method to ensure food safety for your customers
Facilitate obtaining financing from banks or investors
Simulate your profitability and reassure your banker
Calculate your profitability dish by dish taking into account the losses
Perform global profitability simulations
Simulate supplier order placement and avoid surpluses
Share the data with your bankers or investors to convince or reassure them
Prepare all your steps before you start
Production, sales analysis, interconnections via API: prepare your steps
Plan your production and distribute clear tasks to your teams
Analyze your sales to make sure you are producing profitable things
Prepare the interconnection with your other software to be ready when opening
Discover other resources to help you get ahead
What are the best softwares for managing your restaurant?
The virtues of digitalization to optimize a business are no longer to be boasted. Whether it's for sales management, customer management, kitchen management... the offers are getting bigger and bigger, and it's even becoming difficult to find your way around. To help you see more clearly, here is a selection of softwares dedicated to the restaurant industry selected by us.
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Melba's blog
The Melba blog gathers articles to help you progress in the catering field.
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