Starting restaurant: How to find best location
It's harder than people think to find the right location to start restaurant. Here are some things to consider when choosing a mode.
Det som verkar perfekt för att starta restaurang, like a local in a pedestrian street in the center, may prove to be more or less a failure when it is operational,. And a place that at first seems to be absolutely insane, as an old industrial local, may be a fluke. Of course, the food and service really important parts of success factor, men situation can be just as crucial when starting a restaurant, especially at the beginning. Therefore, it is important to be careful before deciding location for its investment. Here are some points to consider, which you can then compile under “Restaurants location” in your business plan.
1. Parking. Facing park too far away, it may be that the prospective customers choose a competitor that is closer… not good. Starting a restaurant in the town center with good public transport, can work well without its own parking. Ideally, there should then be municipal parking lots or parking garages nearby (some guests always take the car). With a location outside the urban, self parking is a must when starting a restaurant.
2. Visibility is important. If you want to start a restaurant, it must appear well. Being seen and / or that your sign is clearly visible, means free advertising. Survey your restaurang properly, Recalls also people that it exists and that they should go there and have dinner.
3. Size does matter. Keep in mind that what looks like a huge empty room, quickly filled up with all the equipment needed when starting a restaurant. Even a small bistro or cafe need sensible space for kitchen work, for cooling- and cryopreservation, for pantry goods, and in all cases a small cubbyhole of (the inevitable) office worked. Maybe a bar where guests can wait on tables, when it is full ruljangs etc.
4. Is there anything in superstition? If you are looking to take over an existing restaurant, or started restauarant in a discontinued restauranglokal, always take out Why it will be sold, or Why it ceased. Starting a restaurant in a location that is notoriously, can be difficult. There is not the slightest science in this, but here it is more a gut feeling…
5. Put safety first. Before choosing local for starting a restaurant, Always check the safety of the house. Are there emergency exits? Check the electrical wiring, is the recently replaced and old as the hills? What about the fire alarm and sprinkler system? Is there disabled access doors and toilet facilities, ramps to get up / into the restaurant with wheelchair? Go through all those facts with the landlord, so you know what is available and what needs to be adjusted respectively to be done - before you sign a contract.
6. Familiarize yourself with the neighbors. When looking for a good restaurant location, you should look around in the proposed neighborhood. Is there already a whole range of restaurants with the same concept that you are thinking of starting a restaurant with? Are there vacant business premises in the vicinity? Remember that success breeds success, people gravitate to where there is a lot going. Is it empty in one or more local, it is easy to customers instead choose other streets / centers.
7. Stand with the dream of the country. Look carefully about whether you want to invest in one position too far from an urban area when starting a restaurant. To establish his restaurant “beyond the main track” can be a treat, but is also a gamble. It can be difficult to get customers to come regularly, if you do not already have an established reputation as people go detours. The premises may be cheap, but customers must nevertheless come all the time for it to be reasonable results.
8. Negotiate lease. Do not be afraid to negotiate the lease and what to include in the. Asking for accommodating when to start a restaurant is never wrong. You want a good local, and the landlord for their part need to rent out as soon as possible. Discuss the amount and what should be included in the, and not the least important, how long you commit yourself to rent. Consider whether it is warm- or cold rent and any maintenance that includes. Remember, too, such as snow removal and lawn mowing.
9. Be patient! Avoid being too impulsive when starting a restaurant. You might step into a local and just know: This is the! But before you turn to should you actually go around and look at several sites and locations. Additionally, you should visit these places not only once, but several, both morning, noon and night. It will be very still, for you any time to make these rounds during different days of the week, and on weekends too, and note what you see. Is there a lot of people that move at the address below workdays and completely dead on evenings and weekends? Knowledge of this sort can mean a lot when the financial results will eventually be added together.
10. Full insight: It is a big commitment you make when you sign the lease to start restaurant. You tie yourself up financially and temporally for a long time. Most often lease for a business of several years. It is easy to see everything through rose-colored and think how fun it will be, but before you decide, you should turn and twist all possible scenarios, even negative. Do you write on one five- or ten-year contract and the restaurant goes bankrupt, you may have to pay the monthly rent for years, though you have no business covering the costs. Se under point 8 above, and attempts to start a restaurant with a shorter contract for a year or two. Once you get started and it goes well, it's time to think about longer rental perspective.
Restaurant expert Magnus Hellstrom