The premise selected for any commercial purpose, whether it is warehouse, cafe or office, has the features. The proprietor should know some things not to be mistaken at a choice of the real estate for a restaurant, cafe or other eatery.
The Area and its Stuffing
The structure of premises for consumers should include: a lobby, a wardrobe, a hall, a banquet hall, male and female toilet rooms with a premise for washing hands, smoking. It is the minimum the restaurant cannot function without.
But there is an established 1:2 ratio of the area of kitchen to the area of a hall as.
Other aspect of the area choice directly concerns reverse calculation. As experience shows, the more tables are in a hall, the more visitors restaurant is capable to take. But remember that excessive concentration of seats can strongly strike attendance in general as turns the restaurant into a dining room. Choosing a premise estimate correctly prospective number of visitors and not to overdo seats.
Rules of a Choice. The Basic Moments
Besides requirements to the area, it is necessary to remember such basic moments, as:
1. Communications. Ventilation, water supply, electro supply, the water drain are key moments in work of a restaurant.
2. A condition of a premise. This aspect is especially actually for old parts of a city as buildings there frequently demand serious repair, reconstruction and conformity with technical requirements. In any case consult with experts about the premise choice. Skilled advisers may prompt how many repairs and re-planning of the premise will cost. It is essential enough clause of the expenses as building, painting and decorating take about 40 % of investments into opening restaurant.
3. The heavy inheritance. It seems seductively to buy under opening of restaurant a closed eatery. You may get obvious economy in means and terms of opening. However in such situation it is necessary to find out the real reasons of closing of the predecessor.
4. Accommodation in an apartment house. A restaurant arrangement in an apartment house involves additional investments in noise isolation, system of ventilation. There are also possible restrictions in an operating time, problems with tenants of ground floors, etc.
5. Conditions of rent if the real estate is not bought. The most important factors are rent (which should not exceed 5-6 % of prospective profit), its structure and term of rent. The rent includes actually rent rate, municipal payments, taxes and working costs (cleaning of a premise, protection and so on). Often proprietor declares only rent rate in advance, and other components the businessman will pay for independently.
Rules of a Choice. A Scene of Action
It is necessary to consider special requirements to the place of a restaurant. In general, it is possible to allocate several main principles:
Principle 1. The premise should be settled down in the city centre or in one of perspective areas.
Principle 2. The premise should be located near subway. It is paradoxical, but practice shows, that the success of even an expensive restaurant is influenced by immediate proximity the subway stations.
Principle 3. The premise should be settled down on a ground floor. As experience dictates the restaurant located on the second floor even in the first line is usually ruined.
Principle 4. The premise should be strict in the first line of houses. If the building is well visible in the winter, in the summer the dense greens can hide it from the eyes of potential clients passing.
Principle 5. The premise should be come-at-able for automobiles. It is necessary to consider, that it will be difficult for clients to get for a supper if an automobile line is opposite to an institution at that time. Concerning pedestrians stream it is necessary to notice, that the concept of an institution should correspond to a structure of the stream. If the stream is formed by students of the next high schools, there is no sense to open here elite restaurant. Important is a direction of the stream as well. The potential client, having decided to come into restaurant, should not cross a counter part of the stream; the institution should be on his side.
Principle 6. Places of a natural accumulation of people are considered to be successful: shopping and entertaining centers, parks, and also the neighborhoods with large office centers, banks.
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