Question
Back Nine
Just a home cook hoping to share my love of healing foods in a restaurant someday. Open to any suggestions! ?
Answer
There's, of course, different ways to approach this. The first thing that I recommend is that you draw up a business plan And I know a lot of folks don't do that because it's a lot of work. But I always recommend that because a business plan is designed to push you into the corner and to address a lot of different questions that often you don't think about in terms of the demographics, and the time of year, and the place, and just how you're going to do this, how you're going to market the product or your concept, and so much more. So draw up a detailed business plan and take your time and think about all the different facets of operating a business. Okay? And then think about how you want to go forth and roll out that concept, whether it's a product that you start small with at your local farmers market, or whether it's a food service concept that you start out with by buying or leasing real estate, and then going down a certain path. I also recommend that you work in professional food service or food production, in some capacity, so that you start to understand just what's involved with all of that. Okay? And I say that because very oftentimes, a love of food and a love of people and a love of feeding people and healing people doesn't translate to doing it professionally in, let's say, full time because of the rigors involved in the restaurant industry. Okay? I've met many people over the last 30 or so years in this industry who have gone into it and then gone out. They have gone to culinary school, and then they've realized that doing it professionally is not as fun as doing it personally and on a much smaller, informal scale. So I always recommend that a person works professionally in the industry around food production and understands the physical nature of it, and so on and so forth. So hopefully that's helpful for you. And go forth and give it a try and see if this is right for you. Thank you.
