how do you write a business plan,I'm thinking of opening a Mexican restraunt in Adelaide?
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Here are free business plans on starting a restaurant business. Study how they are put together and get inspiration for your strategies:\n\nhttp://www.virtualrestaurant.com/plan.htm\nhttp://www.bplans.com/spv/3259/index.cfm?affiliate=pas\nhttp://www.bplans.com/spv/3228/index.cfm?affiliate=pas\n\nOther resources that can help you write your business plan:\n\n- SBA Business Plan Basics http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html\n- PowerHomeBiz.com Creating a Business Plan section http://www.powerhomebiz.com/startup/businessplan.htm\n- Entrepreneur.com Writing a Business Plan section http://www.entrepreneur.com/bizplan/0,7253,,00.html\n\nYou may also want to review some sample business plans to see how it actually looks like:\n\n- Bplans.com http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm\n- MOOT Corp Business Plan competition winners\nhttp://www.businessplans.org/businessplans.html\n- VFinance - View hundreds of real business plans in pdf format. http://www.vfinance.com/home.asp?bps=1&ToolPage=bps_main.asp\n- Business Owners Toolkit Sample business plans and information on how to create a plan. http://www.toolkit.cch.com/tools/buspln_m.asp\n- PlanWare Planning software and information. http://www.planware.org/\n- Virtual Business Plan Walk through the design of a business plan. http://www.bizplanit.com/vplan.html \n-SBA Business Planning Guide http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html\n- Small Business Advancement Center http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/business_plan/businessPlan.pdf\n- Sample Business Plan General planning guide created by the Canadian Business Service Center. http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=CBSC_FE/display&c=GuideFactSheet&cid\n- Business Plans Index - A subject guide to sample business plans and profiles for specific business types from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. http://216.183.184.20/subject/business/bplansindex.html\n\nSome recommended books are :\n\n- Business Plans Kit for Dummies \n- The Complete Book of Business Plans : Simple Steps to Writing a Powerful Business Plan \n- Writing Business Plans That Get Results : A Step-By-Step Guide \n- Business Plans For Dummies® \n- Your First Business Plan : A Simple Question and Answer Format Designed to Help You Write Your Own Plan \n\nHope that the above resources help
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Innovateurs.com http://www.innovateurs.com/models.html has a simple business plan template that is free. Because it is free, it is limited than the paid versions like Palo Alto's Business Plan Pro product.\n\nHere are other resources that can help you write your business plan:\n\n- SBA Business Plan Basics http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html\n- PowerHomeBiz.com Creating a Business Plan section http://www.powerhomebiz.com/startup/businessplan.htm\n- Entrepreneur.com Writing a Business Plan section http://www.entrepreneur.com/bizplan/0,7253,,00.html\n\nYou may also want to review some sample business plans to see how it actually looks like:\n\n- Bplans.com http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm\n- MOOT Corp Business Plan competition winners\nhttp://www.businessplans.org/businessplans.html\n- VFinance - View hundreds of real business plans in pdf format. http://www.vfinance.com/home.asp?bps=1&ToolPage=bps_main.asp\n- Business Owners Toolkit Sample business plans and information on how to create a plan. http://www.toolkit.cch.com/tools/buspln_m.asp\n- PlanWare Planning software and information. http://www.planware.org/\n- Virtual Business Plan Walk through the design of a business plan. http://www.bizplanit.com/vplan.html \n-SBA Business Planning Guide http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html\n- Small Business Advancement Center http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/business_plan/businessPlan.pdf\n- Sample Business Plan General planning guide created by the Canadian Business Service Center. http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=CBSC_FE/display&c=GuideFactSheet&cid\n- Business Plans Index - A subject guide to sample business plans and profiles for specific business types from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. http://216.183.184.20/subject/business/bplansindex.html\n-\nSome recommended books are :\n\n- Business Plans Kit for Dummies \n- The Complete Book of Business Plans : Simple Steps to Writing a Powerful Business Plan \n- Writing Business Plans That Get Results : A Step-By-Step Guide \n- Business Plans For Dummies® \n- Your First Business Plan : A Simple Question and Answer Format Designed to Help You Write Your Own Plan \n\nHope that the above resources help
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You can start small and expand:\n\nbe a courier on foot in a compressed urban area\nbe a bike messenger / courier in an urban area\n\nOR you could get on the Small Business Administrations website and check out how to do a business plan.  Once you've done the research and have a plan outlined for what you want to put together, the SBA will often help you locate investors or loan institutions that can fund your business.  Your local SBA office will also help you put together the business plan.\n\nhttp://www.sba.gov/
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I mean this in the nicest way possible. If you have to ask these questions, you are NO WHERE near ready to open a restaurant. Operating a restaurant successfully is one of the most difficult tasks demanded of any business owner. Restaurants are warehouses, manufacturers, retailers, deliverers and services. They incorporate every facet of every industry, all into one high traffic, low ticket businesses.\n\nUntil someone else is willing to pay you to open restaurants for them, you're not ready to open one.\n\nOnce again, not trying to be mean, I just thought I'd toss a little reality at you.\n\nBrandon O'Dell\nO'Dell Consulting\nRestaurants/Retail/Bars\nhttp://www.bodellconsulting.com\nbodell1@cox.net\n(316) 390-6598\n\nFree initial consultations
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the vision, the drive and the hunger.\n\na business plan, business needs to be registered, name needs to be trademarked.depending on " tax ID " you also need you friend or family behind you support will help you go a far way and most importantly Money!!!!\n\n\ngood luck!
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Pricing:\nYou need to figure out what your break-even revenues are i.e. how many drinks should you sell to cover all your expenses. \nFrom the break even revenues then, figure out how many units you need to move i.e. how many of X units do I have to sell to make the break even revenues of $Y dollars. \n\nThe break even price per unit you come up with will be the bottom end of your pricing strategy. Then do a little leg work and see what your local competitors are selling per unti and under cut them. \n\nYou will then be able advertise your grand open as having the cheapest drinks within a xx mile radius. That should draw a lot of people to the opening and hopefully you can make up on volume moved.\n\nIf you use break even, you will be able to hold that low price for longer provided your costs don't change significantly. As they change, then increase price either to another promotional pricing based on the same reasoning or to match competition or to the recommended retail price.\n\nEmployees:\nYou should pay at/above minimum wage for servers. A manager will be apid as negotiated btw the 2 of you. If this is your first restaurant business, you can work with a manager to help you understand the business esp. if you have no prior industry experience.
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Check out http://www.bplans.com for free sample business plans and articles on writing a business plan. You can download a business plan outline here as well.\n\nI also highly recommend talking to your local SCORE and SBDC offices for free advice. You can find your local score office at www.score.org and an SBDC directory here: http://www.bplans.com/sb/
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When I started a business I went tot he library and checked out a ton fo books. I talked to freinds and the city I lived in and found out the licences and certificates I needed. \n\nMake sure your personal financial house is in order. You are going to want to ask banks to loan you money if you want to expand and they are more likely to do that if you have good credit. \n\nMaybe have a look at a Martha Stewart biography. She began her "empire" with catering. \n\nRealize the restaurant business is very difficult. That doesnt' mean you can't be a big success, just be aware of all the failures that came before you. \n\nHave fun and GOOD LUCK!
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The Bplans website (http://www.bplans.com/) is dedicated to sample business plans and business planning. There are over 60 free plans available here: http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm\n\nI would also contact your local SBDC office for free advice on business planning and starting a business. SBDCs are funded by the SBA and are an excellent resource. You can find your local SBDC here: http://www.bplans.com/sb/\n\nFinally, I also suggest contacting your local SCORE office. SCORE is another SBA funded organization that provides free business coaching and will help you write your business plan. They also have many resources available to help you. You can find your local SCORE office and ask questions online here: http://www.score.org\n\nGood luck!
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If you're looking to make your first venture into the business world as an owner, I suggest one of two things:\n\n1) Forget the food business, it's the most complicated industry out there. In no other industry are you expected to be a warehouse and a manufacturer, with parts that are perishable, be a retailer, run a delivery business, and sell service also.\n\n2) If you insist on the food business, especially with no experience, find a very, very well structured franchise to buy into. Forget the cost, it's a drop in the bucket when you weigh out the chances of success or failure compared to trying to build a concept from scratch.\n\nThe risks of getting involved in the food business are evidenced by the failure rate of restaurants. These failure rates don't even take into account all the country club, college and university food services that lose money every year and have to be subsidized by other departments. There are unsubstantiated rumors about the food industry that place failure rates as high as 90% in the first year. Though that is a gross exageration, the failure rate in the restaurant world is high, just ask your banker, accountant or lawyer. They deal with it every day. There's a reason restaurant loans are among the toughest to get approved for. According to a report in Restaurant Startup & Growth magazine, based on information gathered from the National Restaurant Association, it's estimated that around 57% of restaurants don't live past the five year mark. Of these, the main casualties are independent restaurants. While 7 of 10 independent restaurants will likely fail, 7 of 10 franchise restaurants will survive. As there are many, many people out there that don't realize the value that real structure will bring to their restaurant, and increase their chances of survival, the greater number of independent restaurants opening compared to franchise restaurants pushes the total restaurant failure rate to 57%.\n\nMost other businesses contain elements of only one or two different industries. With a simpler business, it is much easier to focus on marketing and growth than with a restaurant. Inside a restaurant, most your day is filled with operational procedures, and you CAN NOT work ON a business if you are working IN the business 60 hours or more a week.\n\nBrandon O'Dell\nO'Dell Consulting\nRestaurants/Retail/Bars\nwww.bodellconsulting.com
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Here are some resources that can help you write your business plan:\n\n- SBA Business Plan Basics http://www.powerhomebiz.com/startup/businessplan.htm\n- PowerHomeBiz.com Creating a Business Plan section http://www.powerhomebiz.com/startup/businessplan.htm\n- Entrepreneur.com Writing a Business Plan section http://www.entrepreneur.com/bizplan/0,7253,,00.html\n\nYou may also want to review some sample business plans to see how it actually looks like:\n\n- Bplans.com http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm\n- MOOT Corp Business Plan competition winners\nhttp://www.businessplans.org/businessplans.html\n\nSome recommended books are (linked to Amazon so you can easily learn more about the books):\n\n- Business Plans Kit for Dummies \n- The Complete Book of Business Plans : Simple Steps to Writing a Powerful Business Plan \n- Writing Business Plans That Get Results : A Step-By-Step Guide \n- Business Plans For Dummies® \n- Your First Business Plan : A Simple Question and Answer Format Designed to Help You Write Your Own Plan \n\nHope that the above resources help
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Associations may be a good avenue to explore. See the source box for some relevant links. \n\nHere are some book titles that are relevant:\n\n* The Restaurant Business Start-up Guide by Paul Daniels\n* Restaurants That Work: Case Studies of the Best in the Industry by Martin E. Dorf\n* Opening a Restaurant or Other Food Business Starter Kit: How to Prepare a Restaurant Business Plan and Feasibility Study by Sharon Fullen \n* Upstart Guide Owning & Managing a Restaurant by Roy S. Alonzo \n* The Restaurant Managers Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Food Service Operation by Douglas Robert Brown\n\nThere are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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go to sba website and check out the business plans
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You have to get people interested in your business. Preferrably inmvestors, entreprenuers or people with alot of money! If your business is popular they will ask if they can buy a licence to operate a restaurant with your businesses name and methods (i.e a franchise). The business will grow in popularity, and so will the number of restaurants!\nGood luck with franchising!
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Good idea! \nIt might be a start--why not? They overcharge for Mexican food anyway--it's mostly tortillas (super cheap) and beans (super cheap) with a little meat thrown in. Besides, you can make Margaritas at home!
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Here are some resources that can help you write your business plan:\n\n- PowerHomeBiz.com Creating a Business Plan section http://www.powerhomebiz.com/startup/businessplan.htm\n- SBA Business Plan Basics http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html\n- Entrepreneur.com Writing a Business Plan section http://www.entrepreneur.com/bizplan/0,7253,,00.html\n\nYou may also want to review some sample business plans to see how it actually looks like:\n\n- Bplans.com http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm\n- Examples of winning business plans and got funding: MOOT Corp Business Plan competition winners\nhttp://www.businessplans.org/businessplans.html\n\nSome recommended books are (linked to Amazon so you can easily learn more about the books):\n\n- Business Plans Kit for Dummies http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764553658/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid \n- The Complete Book of Business Plans : Simple Steps to Writing a Powerful Business Plan  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0942061411/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid \n- Writing Business Plans That Get Results : A Step-By-Step Guide  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0809240076/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid\n- Business Plans For Dummies®  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568848684/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid \n- Your First Business Plan : A Simple Question and Answer Format Designed to Help You Write Your Own Plan http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570712190/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid\n\nHope that the above resources help\nIsabel Isidro\nFor information on starting a business, visit http://www.powerhomebiz.com
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It takes a while, depending on how inspired you are, whether you have information you need, whether you have resources that can help you write your plan, whether you can crunch numbers fast enough, and how far you have thought out your business idea (e.g. do you have the strategies, marketing ideas, etc.)\n\nHere are some resources that can help you write your business plan:\n\n- SBA Business Plan Basics http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html\n- PowerHomeBiz.com Creating a Business Plan section http://www.powerhomebiz.com/startup/businessplan.htm\n- Entrepreneur.com Writing a Business Plan section http://www.entrepreneur.com/bizplan/0,7253,,00.html\n\nYou may also want to review some sample business plans to see how it actually looks like:\n\n- Bplans.com http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm\n- MOOT Corp Business Plan competition winners\nhttp://www.businessplans.org/businessplans.html\n- VFinance - View hundreds of real business plans in pdf format. http://www.vfinance.com/home.asp?bps=1&ToolPage=bps_main.asp\n- Business Owners Toolkit Sample business plans and information on how to create a plan. http://www.toolkit.cch.com/tools/buspln_m.asp\n- PlanWare Planning software and information. http://www.planware.org/\n- Virtual Business Plan Walk through the design of a business plan. http://www.bizplanit.com/vplan.html \n-SBA Business Planning Guide http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/basic.html\n- Small Business Advancement Center http://www.sbaer.uca.edu/business_plan/businessPlan.pdf\n- Sample Business Plan General planning guide created by the Canadian Business Service Center. http://www.cbsc.org/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=CBSC_FE/display&c=GuideFactSheet&cid\n- Business Plans Index - A subject guide to sample business plans and profiles for specific business types from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. http://216.183.184.20/subject/business/bplansindex.html\n-\nSome recommended books are :\n\n- Business Plans Kit for Dummies \n- The Complete Book of Business Plans : Simple Steps to Writing a Powerful Business Plan \n- Writing Business Plans That Get Results : A Step-By-Step Guide \n- Business Plans For Dummies® \n- Your First Business Plan : A Simple Question and Answer Format Designed to Help You Write Your Own Plan \n\nHope that the above resources help