Location:
La Habra Community Center, El Camino Room
101 W La Habra Blvd
La Habra, CA 90631
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A no-charge event sponsored by:
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 owns Restaurant Profit Technologies, a consulting practice that helps independent operators in Los Angeles and Orange counties grow quickly and consistently. The team members’ 30 years of expertise includes the areas of profitability, operational excellence and lasting guest loyalty.
Mr. McNally owned five restaurants over a 20-year period, opening his first when he was 24. He moved on to work with Grill Concepts, Inc., a national chain whose restaurants include the Daily Grill. In addition, Mr. McNally taught culinary management courses at The International Culinary Schools at The Art Institute of California–Los Angeles.
(Registration/Check-in 5:00 to 5:30 PM)
Limited seating, save yours
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