Location:
Mission Viejo City Hall Saddleback Room
200 Civic Center
Mission Viejo, CA 92691
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A no-charge event sponsored by:
Funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration
SBA/SCORE
5 Hutton Centre Drive, Ste 900
Santa Ana, CA 92707
www.score114.org
Restaurant Start-Up Essentials
Have you finally decided to pursue your dream of opening a restaurant but wonder about the challenges you might face? Or are you a new restaurateur, familiar with the early struggles, but want to become more knowledgeable about expanding your operation?
Restaurant Start-Up Essentials is a workshop that offers advice geared to both types of entrepreneur. It discusses the critical path to opening a successful restaurant, as well as identifies those industry-specific challenges unique to restaurant operations. Attendees will walk away with a playbook for making their restaurants profitable ventures.
What You Will Learn
• How to define your restaurant’s concept
• The basics of restaurant finances and numerical benchmarks
• What are the realistic capital requirements of your venture
• A one-year countdown and checklist to get you to your official opening
• Valuable resources and tools to use for more information
Presented by Greg McNally.
Greg McNally is the CEO of Food Power Inc., a business advisory firm to restaurant operators, property owners and investors in southern California. Greg has over 20 years of experience owning and operating multiple restaurants independently and with partners, as well as working for publicly-traded national chains, and 10 years as an advisor and consultant.
Food Power specializes is solving complex restaurant problems for clients. Areas of focus include increasing profitability, developing operational excellence, assessing investment value and market opportunity, team and culture development, turnarounds, and expansion planning. Typical clients include national, publicly-traded brands, single-location owner operators, large property owners, regional chains, and investors.
Food Power helps you make the best decisions about your restaurant opportunity with over 30 years of experience, a broad and deep network, and a long list of tools.
(Registration/Check-in 1:00 to 1:30 PM)
Limited seating, save yours
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