Have you always dreamed about your own place? About creating a place where your family, friends will be able to spend a nice time, have fun and eat deliciously? No problem, because in spite of appearances on the gastronomic market is still a lot of space! Here are some tips on how to find this place and make it interesting!
Kebab, pizza or maybe crispy strips?
Start with market research. Find out what kind of place is missing in your city, what its inhabitants need and are looking for. Kebab and pizza restaurants are on every street. Ice cream place, coffee shop? Ok, but this is often a seasonal business. Create a place that does not yet exist on your market with an interesting, unique menu and, importantly, a wide audience.
Where to draw inspiration from? Look around and see what the biggest brands on the catering market are doing! It’s not a bad thing to look for an idea there and draw from it. Take, for example, such a world-renowned chain of restaurants serving crispy, fried chicken dishes. It has proven itself for years and continues to develop!
Coated chicken nuggets – an idea for a crispy business
You ask yourself why this is so good. So let’s start with the advantages of this type of restaurant business. First of all: little competition. You have done a research in your city and you already know that this is an undeniable fact! Second: wide range of customers. Chicken dishes are perfect for both men and women. They are eaten by children returning from school and a group of young people during a weekend evening meeting with friends. Third: coating for chicken is not just strips or nuggets. On this product you can build a full, interesting menu! Here are some ideas for groups of dishes:
– chicken burgers,
– tortillas,
– buckets (ideal for delivery and take-out),
– light, nutritious salads,
– sets for children (here a mild coating for nuggets will come in handy).
This is not the end of the advantages of a crispy chicken restaurant. For you as an owner, the above aspects are important because they lead to popularity and reputation of your place. However, we need to pay attention to the ‘behind the scenes’ issues here. When planning your menu, it is very important to verify the availability of products. Nobody wants to think about where to buy raw materials, which are not available immediately. Here we do not have this problem. The main raw materials: meat and vegetables you can probably buy at the local market from a reliable supplier. In case of emergency they are available in any supermarket. Coating for strips is a product with a long shelf life (you can always have a small stock) and secondly, by choosing a reliable supplier you should not have any problem with the availability of the product.
Remember! Choose reliable and dependable suppliers, test their products in advance, check the offer and terms of cooperation. Avoid middlemen and try to buy directly from producers (e.g. you can buy meat directly from the butcher and breadcrumbs for strips are also available from producers). You will save not only money but also time, and additionally you will be sure that the raw material you buy is of the same quality so that you serve repeatable, always the same tasty dishes!
Carrot or stick (or maybe breadcrumbs?)
This is just one of the catering business ideas. It may be ideal but it may also be that someone has already overtaken you in your city and is serving dishes based on coated chicken. Nothing to lose. Take a good look at the foodservice market in your area and make a place for yourself! Don’t give up and create a place that people in your city are looking for!
PS Do you think that coating strips we wrote about is a good idea for a place but you have no experience in gastronomy and do not know where to start? Don’t worry! On the market there are several companies that offer support in opening a restaurant and even franchise. Maybe this is the solution for you! Good luck!
