6 Top Tips For A Great Restaurant Business Plan

Your restaurant business plan will draw on all your creative strengths, from decor to staffing to financing.  Since you no doubt handle the decor and staffing well, let's focus here on the creativity you can use to raise financing.

 Creativity Expected In Your Restaurant Business Plan

Bankers are simply accustomed to seeing certain things in a restaurant business plan, things like:

• Drawings or photos of decor
• Sample of menu
• Drawings or photos of signage
• Samples of advertising
• Charts accompanying your financial summaries
• A business plan style reflecting your restaurant ambiance

So give it to them.  Then give them something extra.

Creativity To Set Your Restaurant Business Plan Apart

The sky is pretty much the limit here.  The object is to demonstrate that in no uncertain terms, you know what you are doing.  Here are a few ideas:

• Your website, set our in the same theme as your restaurant.
• Your FaceBook page, with a few fans already showing.
• Your Twitter account, with some tweets showing how you will use it.
• A photo of your Advisory Board, with quotes from them on what you have accomplished so far.
• An outline of Plan B in the event of disaster or other unexpected miserable events.
• A letter from a prior banker, outlining your credit worthiness and your relationship with that bank.

Financing for restaurants is just tough to come by.  Heck, financing for any business is tough to come by, but restaurants face a particularly steep climb.

Give yourself a break.  Go in with fireworks.  Go in with a really great restaurant business plan.

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