One of the long-lasting and timeless businesses is opening a restaurant or culinary business. Why ? Because, meals is one of the main human needs besides clothes (fashion) and housing (property).

Moreover, the high public interest in culinary encourages more opportunities to open a  business in this field.

Here are some tips to start culinary business:

  1. Set the kind of meals to offer. First, determine what kind of meals to offer to customers, since it will influence other things such as location and target customers
  2. Availability of human resources. One of the most crucial human resources in the restaurant or culinary business is the chef. Make sure the cook (recruiting an outsider or maybe even your own) has the ability to make the dishes that “sell” your business. In addition, you also need to have waiters and cashiers.
  1. Determine Market. Setting the target market will be the key for your business “class”. Avoid selecting wrong target, as the price offered could be too high for the target customers.
  2. Location, location and location. This is the most important thing in doing business, including restaurant or culinary business. Determining the location will determine the success of your business.
  3. Raw materials suppliers. Make sure you have a reliable and trustworthy supplier which provides you with the best quality raw material to ensure your final product would be the best.
  4. Promotion. Do not forget to set up a promotional and marketing strategy for your restaurant. To attract visitors when your business open for the first time, prepare promotional media through banners, pamphlets, brochures or through digital media.Word of mouth promotion is the most powerful promotion. Therefore, excellent service will make customers recommend your place.
  5. Restaurant Management. Restaurant management has to be prepared since you are planning to open this business, even for the small type of restaurant. Manage inventory and operational finance is a must as this will affect the life cycle of your business. Use financial and accounting software to make it easy to manage your business or can also use excel.
  6. Control & Monitoring. Control and monitor your business continuously, from the raw materials availability, food processing, to service in order to maintain your restaurant quality .