Open your restaurant with confidence
Melba provides everything to prepare for the opening of your restaurant: step by step guides, thematic articles, the best software and other great resources
How to open a restaurant?
Restaurants can be high risk, with 80% of new ones failing within 3 to 5 years. Before opening a restaurant, it's essential to think about and complete the different steps that will make you successful:
- Find the idea for your future restaurant
- Prepare your business plan
- Train to succeed in opening a restaurant
- Get grants and subsidies
- Set administrative procedures
- Identify HR needs and recruit qualified staff
- Equip your kitchen
- Advertise the opening of your restaurant
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
Obtain 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
Organize your back of the house operations 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 that your production is profitable
Prepare the interconnection with your other software to be ready when opening