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This course includes:

  • 4 hours on-demand video
  • 28 downloadable resources
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and TV
Business Entrepreneurship Restaurant Management

The Ultimate Food and Restaurant Business Course

For Existing Food & Restaurant Businesses & Start Ups. This course will significantly improve you chance of success.
Bestseller
Rating: 4.5 out of 54.5 (358 ratings)
1,420 students
Created by Nigel Simon
Last updated 8/2020
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • 1. The critical importance of cash flow, calculating break even and the 30/30/30 model.
  • 2. Why you need a clear concept and USP.
  • 3. Why accurate costs & GP’s for all your dishes are essential.
  • 4. How POS, reservations systems and other software can make you more money & provide invaluable data.
  • 5. Optimal menu design, menu engineering and GP’s both in theory and practice.
  • 6. What to consider in choosing a location, what’s in a lease, and preparing a landlord pack.
  • 7. The customer and service journey and why it is important to map these.
  • 8. The importance of branding & marketing together with social media & websites.
  • 9. Why the mantra “Tax Is Not Yours” is essential.
  • 10. Start-up costs and overheads including a comprehensive list.
  • 11. Sources of funding and their pro’s and con’s.
  • 12. How to put together a business plan, financials and plan an elevator pitch for investors.
Curated for the Udemy for Business collection

Requirements

  • Whilst you will find the Course more familiar if you've already got hospitality experience whether in the kitchen or front of house the Course is also great for those starting up.

Description

The Ultimate Food & Restaurant Business Course is aimed at those new to the hospitality business as well as those already operating restaurants, café & food stalls as well as sector investors. The course covers all the key building blocks for launching and running a successful restaurant business. The course will help you identify gaps in your knowledge and significantly improve your chance of success. Critically for you the course has been built by people who know the restaurant business backwards and have been there, done it and got the t shirt!


The 12 video modules cover areas such as your Big Idea & Story, Marketing, Finance, Site Selection, Recruitment & Retention and IT. The course is accompanied by 69 pages of further advice in the form of downloadable resources which together build into a valuable workbook for you to keep.


Well known successful UK hospitality professionals including Will Beckett of Hawksmoor, Sophie Bathgate of Sophie’s Steakhouse, John Wood from Kitchen Cut & Megan Burroughs from Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings have kindly donated their wisdom and advice in short inspirational informative videos. Each section closes with the latest advice from Sam Harrison who opened his third restaurant Sam’s Riverside in Hammersmith, London in November 2019. Over £30,000 has been invested in the Course so far and it is intended that further valuable video advice will be released monthly to subscribers.

Who this course is for:

  • Chefs, Front of House Team, Restaurant Investors, Hospitality start ups, hospitality curious!

Featured review

Bustomi Laimeheriwa
Bustomi Laimeheriwa
12 courses
1 review
Rating: 5.0 out of 56 months ago
It covers most of profound comprehension in establishing food service industry, starting on identify values we wanna deliver, finance, IT, marketing, and so on. Everything has been explained in easy way and completed with restaurateurs' experience.

Course content

12 sections • 45 lectures • 3h 48m total length

  • Preview03:04
  • Preview05:25
  • Preview03:22
  • Preview04:03

  • Your Big Idea
    01:27
  • Your Concept
    02:08
  • Your Story
    01:36
  • Your Unique Selling Point (USP)
    05:19

  • Introduction To Finance
    03:45
  • Profit & Loss, Cash Flow & Taxes
    06:15
  • Revenue, Cost Of Goods, Labour & Overheads
    16:13
  • Preview09:11
  • Calculating Break Even
    12:08

  • Finding The Right Site
    06:13
  • How To Get A Landlord To Take You Seriously
    01:09
  • The Lease
    03:34

  • Marketing, Branding & Naming Your Restaurant
    07:47
  • Target Markets & How We Find New Restaurants
    01:40
  • The Customer Journey
    06:59

  • Food Costing
    06:24
  • Cash Margin vs % Margin
    03:04
  • Food & Drinks Matrix
    01:43
  • Menu Design
    03:56
  • Stock Management, The Stocktake & Gross Profit (GP)
    06:07
  • Your Drinks Offer & Wine List
    09:38

  • Suppliers
    01:51
  • The Technology Revolution
    02:19
  • EPOS
    04:34
  • Other Software
    01:01
  • Table Booking Systems
    07:50

  • Recruitment & Retention
    04:17
  • Culture
    03:02
  • The Service Journey
    07:37

  • Costs Checklist
    01:07
  • Shell vs Existing Site
    07:09

  • Word Of Mouth
    02:23
  • Websites
    02:11
  • Social Media
    07:24
  • Other Forms Of Marketing
    12:46

Instructor

Nigel Simon
Restaurant Start Up Expert
Nigel Simon
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 358 Reviews
  • 1,420 Students
  • 1 Course

40 years of business experience, the last 14 years working with start-ups and hospitality businesses to help them grow.

An experienced start up investor with multiple investments sitting on the Board of two Companies as a Business Advisor.

A Business Growth advisor for award winning consultancy – Advantage Business Partnerships.

Launch Group Chair & Business Mentor for the Princes Trust Charity.

A range of Advanced Business & Finance courses at London Business School and Insead both leaders in their field of business teaching/MBA’s.

Ten years Marketing & PR experience.

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