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Restaurant for Sale - Writing a Restaurant Business Plan
By Restaurants for Sale in Atlanta
Dated: Dec 10, 2008
Work on one small part of the business plan at a time. If you think about writing the entire plan, you will
get overwhelmed. As with any project in life, the longest journey begins with the first step. Take one small
section of the plan,
Resources for writing a Restaurant Business Plan
Restaurants for Sale in Atlanta Georgia - Doug Marranci Consultant
by Doug Marranci Atlanta Restaurant Exchange
In the early 90’s I wanted to create a business plan to open my first coffee house in Charlotte NC. I did a
lot of research and found many different types of plans that could be written. After going to the library and
looking at many books and SBA information about writing a business plan, here are some of my thoughts
on writing that first business plan.
1. If you address all of the areas of a standard business plan, you will probably have uncovered all of the
information that you need to find to start your business.
2. Work on one small part of the business plan at a time. If you think about writing the entire plan, you will
get overwhelmed. As with any project in life, the longest journey begins with the first step. Take one small
section of the plan, do your writing, do your research, check your work, and move on to the next section.
3. Use friends and acquaintances to read over the plan as you are developing it. I asked a variety of friends
to check my work for various reasons. The first was a banker. Enough said. The next was a Research
Physician. He pointed out anything that I said that i did not substatiate. The next was an English Professor.
Enough said on that one too. The last was a friend who was not a business person, just to make sure an
average person understood what I was trying to do.
4. Tell everyone what you are doing. You are not “opening a restaurant” you are simply writing a business
plan for a restaurant idea to see if it could work. I can assure you that a well written plan will clearly let you
know if you are able to fulfil this dream, or do you need to “scale down” your dream to something more
realistic. One note here, I never had to go to investors. I talked to so many people about my ideas that I had
people volunteer to be investors before I ever had my plan finished. (I thought i was done, however, they
made me finish my business plan).
5. You never know who can be a resource. You will develop relationships with many people in the process
who are in the Industry. Pricing from Food Vendors, Lease and Sale prices from a Restaurant Broker,
Equipment from a Food Service Equipment Vendor and your accounting or banker friend when you ask for
advice. These relationships carry over into your business. Since you are a small business person, most
people take an interest in you, and your business venture. Most people with whom I had discussions with
kept up with my progress, and were some of my first customers.
6. You will gain knowledge and assistance from many sources. My desire to open this Coffee House was
to provide a safe environment for people away from bars and clubs. Remember, this was P.S.
(Pre-Starbucks). I went to a used furniture store, and was picking out what I wanted. When I told the
manager what I was doing, he told me to pick out whatever I wanted, and gave it to me for free. While this
may not happen to everyone, you never know who is willing to help you and in what ways they can help.
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Since that initial coffee house, I have gone on to start up and sell five more restaurants since then. This
was all done from starting with nothing but an idea.
Since I have such a love for the restaurant business, I now work with people who have a restaurant for sale,
or people who are looking to buy a restaurant. My experience and passion brings great strengths to
Restaurant Brokerage in Atlanta Georgia!
http://www.AtlantaRex.com
Doug Marranci
Atlanta Restaurant Exchange
1708 Peachtree St NW
Suite 520
Atlanta GA 30309
404-892-4999
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