A New Restaurant

Are you excited to be working with your restaurant business plan?  You should be.  If not, why not?  Working with your business plan should be something that gets your heart rate going.  After all, a new restaurant is something that is going to be taking up a great deal of your time going forward.  If your heart isn’t into doing opening a new restaurant, it could make for some long, miserable days.

It amazes me the number of people that enter into the planning stages with a sense of dread.  They treat it like a homework project for a class they hate.  It’s not supposed to be that way.  It is supposed to be fun.

For most of us, our business is a dream that started as a small spark of inspiration.  We fanned it, and fed it, and it grew to a blaze that we couldn’t ignore.  If that’s true for you, why do you spend the time planning like someone just threw a bucket of water on your fire?

This is supposed to be a time of hopes and expectations.  It is a time to look toward the future and see the possibilities.

As you work through the business plan process, you get the chance to examine your dream, and for the first time, you get to see the nuts and bolts of how it all is supposed to work.  Your idea moves from being just a fire burning out of control to a force that can change the course of your life.

If your business plan does not excite you, you may need to do a little soul searching to find out why it doesn’t.  Is this the business you really want to open, or is it an old dream that you just haven’t let go of.  Maybe it wasn’t really your dream at all.  It’s possible that the dream was someone else’s dream that they tried to convince you to pursue.  Maybe it’s the right dream, but the wrong time to go after it.

Whatever the reason you’re struggling with it, you need to get it resolved now before you commit all of your time and money for a business you don’t even care about.  That’s a recipe