How to open a restaurant by a restaurant owner

About this course

Owning and running your own restaurant business is a dream for many. In fact, many (most? all?) restaurant managers, chefs, and employees think about owning their own restaurant. With this course, owning your own restaurant can be a reality. Armed with the knowledge of the realities of ownership, and with the right planning and execution, your restaurant can be successful. This is a practical, real-world guide that walks you through the steps of opening a successful restaurant startup by a real restaurant guy with real-world experience in opening, owning, and operating three restaurants. After years of managing chain restaurants as general manager and vice president of operations, I opened my first restaurant. After only six months, it failed. How could this be? This course will show you the mistakes that I made and how you will avoid those mistakes. I later successfully opened two more restaurants and a comedy club. This course combines the hard lessons I learned from my first restaurant, with the wisdom gained from opening two successful restaurants (and a comedy club!) to give you the best chance of success. You will find that owning and opening your restaurant will be an incredible accomplishment, and knowing that you will avoid the killer mistakes that I made will give you the confidence to actually move ahead.