How do we find investor for restaurant-bar industry - 185,000?
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We, as you and somebody else... Let that be the first RED FLAG... Not only do you not have the positive cash flow yourselves but you dont even know anybody to ask... This is getting off to rough start... I'm not being negative, just real... Restaurant and bar biz is no joke when it comes to trying to make a buck... Especially when you have to pay back most of what you make in the beginning... Think about it... Good luck!
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I have a fiend in Nigeria who would like to help you find an investor for a small fee.  He is a true fiend...\n(Please ignore the rude person below.)
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There are many investments that you can make with $1,000,000.00 USD that return at least 60% anually. Howevever, most businesses take some time to become profitable. For example if you start a small restaurant chain in 10 cities with $100,000.00 for each location. You start selling from the very first day you open the restaurant (Hopefully) and asuming you make 50% on every meal served (Unlikely) and asuming you sell on average $20 per customer to 10 customers each day it would take 1000 days just to get your initial investment back. After that, you will get at least a 60% anual return on your investment asuming you increase your customer sales to over $20 per customer and your daily customers to over 10 each day. You should take into account that at least 1 location may go out of business. This is equivalent to over $50,000.00 a month. However, like any business there will be months with low sales and months with high sales. Eventually your place will be known and asuming you have a good marketing campaign and an excellent manager running your business you could easily get over $50,000 every month. But that would take time. Of course there is not way to know if your restaurnat will be successfull or if you go out of business. The same goes for every kind of business. It may work or it may fail. Another approach would be to invest in the stock market but unless you have an excellent portfolio manager (I mean world class and very expensive Portfolio Manager) is is unlikely you get returns higher than 60% per year. There are many portfolio managers out there that can easily manage your money and get you over 60% per year but your ammount is so small that even if you pay them $300,000 a year of salary you won't make the amounts you want. A $150,000 a year portfolio manager may not get you a 60% return on your investment. And of course there is always the more popular brands that can manage your wealth for a very small fee (Less than 5% of your assets) but they will not give you the returns you want.\nKeep in mind, you may have to pay taxes on your business too.\nIn the end, if you want to make a 60% return on your investment you need to TAKE VERY HIGH RISKS and you could lose money. On the other hand you can get safe 10% return on your investment buying Bonds with VERY LITTLE RISK but that is a long way from $50,000 a month. \nThere is no such thing as HIGH RETURN LOW RISK\nIf you need more detailed information. Drop me a line.
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You just need to see a restaurant profit and loss statement or a budget. Follow this link to a Yearly P&L budgeting tool on the Samples page of my website. Look toward the bottom of the spreadsheet under "Expenses" and you'll find a complete list as recommended by the National Restaurant Association.\n\nhttp://www.bodellconsulting.com/Samples/Spreadsheets/Profit%20&%20Loss%20Budget%20Blank%20-%20Year.xls\n\nBrandon O'Dell\nO'Dell Consulting\n(316) 361-0675\nbodell1@cox.net\nhttp://www.bodellconsulting.com
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You'll need a local vending license, a truck, a supplier of produce, and then a lot of let work to find clients. Try the smaller restaurants to start with.
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Hi!\nYou are a team of 4 to 5 people,so investment is not a problem.\n\nTry this out:\n1. Give an ad in a newspaper that you need a 12 or 24 seater ready callcenter capacity. (OR) Call up people who had given ads like "Callcenter capacity available". This will give you an idea about the infrastructure rate that you may require to invest.\n\n2. Contact consultants who are ready to give project. Of course, you will have to give them some lumsome money.\n\n3. Employees is not an problem. You can easily get talented youngsters for a reasonably good pay.\n\nBut, these are the rules:\n"Start with a minimum investment", "Invest in phases",\n"Show good response to your employers"\n"First project is the God for you"
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Pay a professional.\n\nBrandon O'Dell\nO'Dell Consulting\nRestaurants/Retail/Bars\nbodell1@cox.net\n(316) 361-0675\nhttp://www.bodellconsulting.com\n\nFree initial consultations
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My family bought a restaurant.. Honestly the most important thing is location, the second is need of that business, make sure there aren't too many others within a close distance. Third, always do a survey in the community, to see if that would be somethin that they would be interested in. And another important factor, is that you want to trademark it, so put it on the stock market, and sell immediately!\n\nHope his helps a little!
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Call the company:\nhttp://www.jambajuice.com/investors/index.html
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Dude, best of luck. I have no money but some advice.\n\nGive people numbers. Find out how much money you need, how much a house would sell for in NM, and how much total money an investor could make with you. With those numbers, you'll have plently of investors.\n\nDon't forget, investors want to know risk vs. return. The lower the risk and the higher the return, the more investors will come to you if you give them the numbers.\n\nGood Luck
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I would try to find a local investor. I've started 3 companies and you do not want capital venture firms giving you money. Find a local businessman or company to invest. 200-500k is a very small investment. Just make sure you have an attorney look over the documents before signing anything if you find an investor. If I didn't have a law degree, I wouldn't have noticed many of the stipulations. You can get screwed pretty easily and end up only owning 30-40% of the company you worked so hard to start.
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Venture capitalists do not invest in restaurants.  Your best bet is to find a retired successful restaurateur in your area who is getting sick of playing golf.  He and his golf buddies will bankroll you if they like you and your idea...
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Create business plan. It must include projections for at least 2 years.\n\nMake sure you have 20% - 30% down payment\n\nMake sure you have collateral. The following is the formula to calculate collateral:\nCollateral = (Personal Real estate value*0.8 – Mortgage) + Commercial Real Estate Value * 0.8 + Equipment value *0.5 + Inventory *0.1\n\nMake sure your credit score is 680+.\n\nMake sure you have relevant experience. Banks will never finance career change.\n\nCollect all necessary financial documents:\n1)Personal tax returns for the last 3 years\n2)Business tax returns (for existing business) for the last 3 years\n3)Profit And Loss statement year to date\n\nCall your local banks. Ask if they do SBA loans.\n\nWhile choosing bank, keep in mind that banks are specialized entities If you wanted Chinese food, you wouldn’t go to a steak house, would you? Banks are organized the same way. You will never find a bank that does all types of businesses and all types of loans.\n\nDo your homework. Call the bank, ask for a business loan officer and describe your business type and your financial needs. Try to avoid banks that will give you a general answer: “We make our credit decision on a case per case basis”. Most likely you will waste money and most importantly your time.\n\nComplete loan application – make sure there is no arithmetical errors, mistypings and all personal financial information is correct.\n\nSubmit the complete package – all documents that were requested by the loan office, in the order that was requested to the bank.\n\nGood luck,\nMarina Lando\nPresident\nBusiness Loan Quest\nhttp://www.blquest.biz
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try this. no investment required. no inventory to keep. no quotas to meet. fun and easy to do.\n\nhttp://www.stuffafriend.biz/members/xtnl...\n\nof course, like with any other business, though, the amount and quality of work you put in will be reflected in the income that you will make. so you can choose to work a little or work alot, it's really all up to you.
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The two best sources for hotel properties would be brokers who specialize in hotel properties (hospitality properties), such as:\n\nCB Richard Ellis at www.cbre.com/USA\nor www.motelhotelbroker.com\n\nDepending on how much money your father has, he might be able to contact a Hospitality REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) and see what they are selling.  They normally have larger investment grade properties, but you never know.  You can check out www.nareit.com for a list of hospitality REIT's.
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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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The statistics for new business restaurants are pretty grim.  Unless you have a location where there is little competition, or a specialized menu, it is a tough way to earn a living.  \n\nRestaurants require a healthy inventory of perishable items, and if you don't have the traffic, it is lost.  Even frozen foods have a shelf life.\n\nI don't mean to sound discouraging, but that is one business where I wouldn't get too involved with loans, etc.  If the business fails, you can find yourself out in the cold, burdened with debt and with a ruined credit rating.  \n\nApart from inventory, there is all kinds of specialized equipment and public regulations, to say nothing of some pretty pricey insurance premiums to consider.  \n\nDidn't mean to rain on your parade, but hope you will be realistic in your thinking.  If you have a special dish, why not try to market it to an existing restaurant and get yourself a job as one of their pet chefs.\n\nMy hubby worked in insurance before retirement, and the highest business turnovers were in the food industry.