Opening your own cafe or restaurant - this idea is often visited by many young restaurateurs. After all, it seems that it is so simple. The main thing is to be able to cook, and everything else will follow. In fact, experts say that opening a cafe is very expensive. And it is necessary to very clearly calculate how much money you need for this, and how profitable and profitable your enterprise will be in order to recoup all costs.
If the idea of opening a cafe is already ripe for you, take a piece of paper, a pen and a calculator. You will have to do a lot of meticulous calculations that will help you take a sober look at the idea.
Where to begin
First of all, you need an idea. After all, you cannot just decide: I open a restaurant and open it. Indeed, the type of your catering point, the range of products and much more will directly determine what costs you will incur and how much money you will need to open a food outlet.
For example, a coffee shop costs several times less than a full-fledged restaurant. Especially if the restaurant is themed and designed for exotic cuisine. This is due to the fact that a small room is used in the form of a coffee shop, which requires lower rental costs. In addition, the assortment in this kind of cafe is more modest than in a full-fledged restaurant, which means that the kitchen needs less, and various accessories for it on an industrial scale are not required.
Next, you need to take care of drawing up a business plan, part of which will be the estimate for the business. In a business plan, many different nuances must be taken into account: costs, planned income, necessary costs, the duration of the preparatory period, when the restaurant will not work yet, but you will have to pay the bills.
What does the money go to when opening a cafe
In order to open a cafe, it is necessary to take into account a number of important parameters, including:
- the cost of renting the premises;
- the cost of redeveloping it for your needs and repairs (only one coordination of redevelopments is on average estimated at $ 8000, and the cost of repairs takes away only for drawing up a design project $ 40 per sq.m.);
- the cost of purchasing the necessary equipment, which include ovens, refrigerators, coffee machines, etc.;
- advertising costs;
- the cost of purchasing products.
From this list, the most expensive items are renting premises (it can take about $ 500 per sq.m. per year) and the purchase of special equipment (depending on the type of restaurant, expenses for this item can range from $ 20 thousand to $ 200 thousand). … But you can try to save money. For example, you will have to carefully study the specialized real estate market in order to find a convenient location for the building of a future restaurant or cafe, but with a low rent. Also with the equipment. It is not at all necessary to buy it for newcomers; quite at first, you can get by with an installment plan or rent.
Do not forget about the corporate style, i.e. clothes for waiters, bartenders and cooks. On average, the purchase of 2 pieces of clothing for each team member costs between $ 2-6 thousand.
Do not forget about various registrations, approvals and other legal details. Obtaining the necessary documents and permits may require not only time (2-3 weeks), but also material (payment of duties), and this is several tens of thousands of rubles.
As a result, to open your own cafe, you will need more than one million rubles. The smallest and most modest institution will take at least 4 million rubles. It is better if this money is many times more, so that the owner has more opportunities for business development.
