How to Start a Restaurant in India
Food business is a business which will rarely let you down. If you have a good location in hand you can always start a thriving restaurant business. With lots of planning, perseverance, patience and hard work you can make your enterprise turn into a financial success.
Various factors go into making a new restaurant’s a success. These include capital invested, location, market research, menu, concept, operating systems and more. With a good plan and reasonable finance in hand, you can always go into the process of launching a restaurant and stay perfectly on track with your plan.
Restaurant StartUp
Your restaurant business plan must always calculate the start-up expenses. This must include the operating expenses for a few months and required finances to fund the start-up. Only the correct cash flow projection can help you grasp financial matters better.
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This is the moot question before you go into a business. Money needed depends on the facility, the type of business, the kind of equipment you need, whether you buy new inventory or used hired ones, marketing, and necessary operating capital.
Legal Permit and License Requirement to Start a Restaurant Business
Restaurant start-up also requires you to get all permits and licenses from local governing bodies. You must also have adequate insurance coverage.
Be sure you get all required licenses and permits that are necessary such as food establishment permits from the department of health services, and get adequate insurance coverage, too.
How to Decide Menu and Interior of Restaurant?
Depending on the culinary tastes of the people in the area you must select the menu with care and set correct prices after comparing it with your nearest competitors.
Before kick starting operations you must pay attention to design the interior attractively. Your selection of furnishing materials and furniture must be tasteful. Invest only after you have compared prices.
How to Advertise your Restaurant?
For a good response it is very important to advertise your restaurant and drive home your point across a wide area. The best form of advertisement is to start a blog and highlight the salient features of your restaurant. Circulate the URL for people to know more about your efforts and the latest items introduced or even follow comments. For a good start up offer a discount or something gratis. Once the item you offer is relished by customers you can be assured of more visitors.
What Skills are Required if you Want To Start a Restaurant Business?
Before you set up a restaurant, you must develop a comprehensive human resource program. Begin with compiling a job description for all level of employee. This will clearly define their job duties and responsibilities. Give proper training to your employees. An employee acquainted with their job, can always perform well. You must also learn how to cope with absentees or sluggish employees. Losing your temper will never solve problem. You need to motivate them. Knowledge of employee retention program will stand you in good stead.
What Type of Restaurant you Want to Start?
There are various types of restaurants which you can start in your city. Take local preferences and your culinary skills into consideration. You can start Chinese restaurant or restaurants which specialize in south Indian delicacies. If your location is inside a mall, you can start pizza restaurant or even a fast food restaurant. The options are limitless.
Irrespective of the kind of restaurant you wish to start, the best way to know about the tricks of the trade is to work in the same field before branching out on your own. This will give you good insight into the realities of the business.
Hi there, can you tell me what is the government procedure to startup restaurant business in India, also tell me what are the licenses (with details) required for setting up a restaurant in Delhi?
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Puneet Mithra Reply:
April 11th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Hi, I am also finding out details on how to start a restaurant business. I have done a lot of research, however still have a few questions to be answered. Let me know if you wish to team up to exchange the required details, thanks, puneet
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Scott Wilson Reply:
April 12th, 2010 at 6:00 am
Mr. Punit,
Your every single question will be answered here with personal attention. See, one thing is fixed that you want to start it. So your efforts are going in right way. If you have any difficulty please be free to ask questions. We are here to guide you. Thank you
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Thanks for the article but inspite of getting all the details of startup how can i get an idea abt wht kind of restaurant it should be whether fast food,chinese,restro cum cafe .
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Scott Wilson Reply:
May 7th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Mr. Mohit,
What are you talking about is covered by social and cultural factors. Even geographical factors affect the decision.
To decide, what to start, you need to specify your location.
If you are in Gujarat and some big town then the decision may defer and the sameway with the other states.
So better think a bit and ask a question yourself only. If you want to do some thing, you need to take some efforts of thinking and you need to analyse the place.
Thank you.
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Hello,
I would like to open a coffee shop in Hyderabad or Kolkata and am trying to find out what are the licenses and permits required for such a venture and where I would have to apply for these?
Please guide.
Thanks.
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I am also looking for good guidance for my restaurant but i couldn’t get a complete details. If anyone has complete PDF guide for restaurant management, please mail me on given id. Thanks
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Hi Scott,
I have been going through your valuable advices to many of the aspirants. Great!
I am planning to start a chain of “Eateries” in South India which would serve quality snacks and soft drinks. I would first like to start with one and then expand into few numbers in the near future. I have planned the itmes/menu that would would be served and have also decided the price factor. Please advise me what are all the procedures to start this business in India like the license part, certificates etc required for this.
Also please help me with a model business plan so that I can work out the cash flow. The investment what I will be looking at is 3-5 lakhs intially.
Please let me know your opinon and advise me in this regard.
Thanks in advance!
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Scott Wilson Reply:
June 17th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Mr. Anoop,
The plan which you have set is perfect and strategic. The only advise you need is the legal aspects.
You have to register your firm or company as a food chain enterprise. Then you have to pass through the checking process and the inspection process.
Once you are done with this, you can easily run the business. The advertising is the second part to take care of.
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Hi Scott!
I am planning to open a coffee shop in Kolkata. none in my entire family has ever been in restaurant business. Can u please suggest me on the paper work I mean the permit and the license. And is it possible to hire even the furniture or we have to buy our own? It will be great if you could give me ur number or the contact number of a Restaurant consultant in Kolkata so that we can get all our queries solved.
Looking forward to have ur prompt response.
Thanks,
Keerti
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Hi, I am planning to start a restaurant in Chennai, India. I have a different recipe in my menu. Like the pure Veg., south Indian foods like Kolkata, Panniyaram and other items which is normally not available anywhere. So I would like to get advice on this idea from you.
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Hi, I have opened a restaurant in Patna but I have no license please guide how can I get it easily and fast.
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Hi, I want to open a restaurant in New Delhi. Nobody have in my family & friends circle in restaurant business. Can u please suggest me how to start it? What kind of permit and license required. Is there any good consultant in New Delhi, so that I can get all the answer of our queries? Please advise me in this regards.
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