How To start Restaurant Business in India

Friends, today we will tell you how to start Restaurant Business in India, and the necessary information for starting a restaurant business. So let’s find out now about the restaurant business.

Once you think about it and decide that you need to open a restaurant, you need to start the process that is necessary to make your restaurant theme and other things a restaurant business.

You need to create a proper plan for your restaurant business, and we’ll practice this later in our post. Because that will help your restaurant business to make a profit in the future.

Most people can’t fulfill their dream of opening a restaurant because they have less money. And when you think about opening a restaurant business, this is one of the important things.

• First of all, clear the concept of your restaurant
• How much budget would it take to open your restaurant

congratulations if you have enough funding, because if you have enough funding then you have crossed the first hurdle of opening a restaurant. And starting a restaurant business with your own capital is a good way because it reduces your risk of investing. And try to have more money to invest, so that you can borrow less, and have all the profits.

if you have fewer funds, you can take a loan, and if you want, you can also raise funds from your relatives. But the biggest problem with both these methods is that you have to pay interest or return all the money with their profit at a fixed time.

Calculate all the costs, calculating all the costs of the restaurant is necessary to run a restaurant well. Unless you calculate the total cost, you will not know how much the next cost will be. And if this happens, again and again, it may be difficult to run a restaurant later. And this cost is very common in every restaurant –

• Food cost – food cost – The price of all the raw materials needed to make a food dish.
• Labor cost – Labor cost is one of the highest costs, and it is needed for restaurants. One of the biggest expenses that come later when opening a restaurant and running a restaurant.
• Overhead costs – Overhead costs are different from these, it is not like any food or labor. And there are many things involved in this cost such as –
• License – License is required to open your restaurant. Licenses depend on many things, such as what area your restaurant is in.
• Marketing – You need to spend 1% -2% of your entire profit on marketing your restaurant. Doing so will let a lot of people know about your restaurant and come to your restaurant.

Apart from these, there are many other costs such as –

To start a restaurant business you first need to know in which area or location you want to start your restaurant business. Because your location will decide how you can make a profit in your restaurant business.

When choosing a location for your restaurant business, you need to gather some more detailed information, such as –

And knowing these, the location of your restaurant needs to be such that your restaurant can be easily seen by people. It would be best if you open your restaurant right in front of the main road, and it will catch the eye of many.

You have to take NOC from the people around the location you choose to open the restaurant. NOC is not taken in small towns, but in many places, there are rules for taking NOC.

You need to get a license from the government to open any restaurant in India. What kind of license you need to take will depend on the size of your business. If you have selected the location and completed all the other processes you have, then you should apply for the permit as soon as possible as this application takes a long time to be approved. The licenses required to start a restaurant business in India are –

• Trade license – Depending on the size of the restaurant, it costs around Rs 10,000 to Rs 1 lakh. Although for small restaurants the amount is around 5000 to 10000. The license is issued for a financial year. This license has to be renewed in March every year.
• Fssai – To open a food business in India, you need to get this Indian Food Security License. This is the size, turnover, capacity, location, etc. of your business for the Fssai license. You may have to pay around Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 for all the costs.
• GST registration – You need to register for business and get a GST number. You will need to register GST separately for each state.
• Professional Tax License – You need to get this license to keep any staff in your restaurant. All your staff salaries above Rs 10,000 will be included in this tax.
• Liquor license – The most difficult thing to get a liquor license. You should apply for a liquor license as soon as possible, as there is a lot of time to approve this license.
• Business registration – You need to register your business with a partnership firm or other registration process from your business.

There are many other licenses that are required to open a restaurant such as –

• Pollution control license
• Fire safety certificate

6. Collect manpower for your business

Having the right manpower to do restaurant business in India is a positive aspect of growing your business. Many times we hire the wrong people and that’s why our company’s name has gone bad in the eyes of others. And this is when we are talking about opening a restaurant, if we do not hire the right staff here, you will have to face a lot of losses.

Most people hire staff from their own source or at the suggestion of family or friends. But if you are opening a new business or improving your old business, you can advertise in the newspaper, or hire people through an agency. Or if you say you want to do these for free then it is very easy, because you will get social media options here. You can also hire people with the help of social media.

Now everyone is active on social media. You can look for it on social media like Facebook or LinkedIn and you can use Instagram.

A restaurant usually requires three types of staff –

1. Kitchen staff – The kitchen staff consists of cook’s, support staff, etc.
2. Service staff – This staff is waiters. The waiter deals with the customer so Waiter’s language needs to be good.
3. Management staff – This staff is the restaurant manager, restaurant cashier, store manager, etc. All of this will be good for you if you are educated and have a fresh mind.

Before you start your restaurant business you need to train your employees about their work, and also tell them how they will serve your customers.

The real identity of any restaurant is in the food and menu of that restaurant. So before you start your restaurant business you need to design a menu. Smartly designed menus affect the price of food in your restaurant. And the menu needs to have items that can be made quickly, and the raw material of that food is easily available in the local market. And the menu needs to be designed in a way that will attract customers and motivate them to spend more. And you need to include in your menu the foods that are in high demand in the local area where your restaurant is located. You will make a special item in your restaurant that will help to promote your restaurant.