The Restaurant Incubator: Save Time and Money Opening Your Restaurant

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Charlie Farris owns and operates 16 (going on 17!) branches of Jersey Mike's in central and eastern North Carolina. He also acquired a beloved local restaurant called Al's Burger Shack, and now he and his partners are expanding that brand as well. Hear how (and why) you too can open a franchise, the perks and pitfalls of working with a franc...

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At the macro level, you'll need to employ the paradigm of plan--> process--> profit at all levels, starting with the broad scope of opening your restaurant. In today's episode, we tighten the nuts and bolts of this concept.

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This is The Restaurant Incubator, where I draw on my experience--and all of the mistakes that I made--to help entrepreneurs and chefs like you get your own restaurant project organized and open for business.

Can you picture yourself standing in your own kitchen, commanding your own crew, with no boss besides yourself to answer to? The Restaura...

If you’re thinking about starting a restaurant or already trying to avoid a disaster with one, this ⁠⁠⁠10-Step Restaurant Roadmap⁠⁠⁠ will help you dodge pitfalls and get you to Opening Day faster. I’m inviting you to use it for no charge.

I hired Sasan Nayeri as the GM of Evangeline, which opened on February 2, 2015. Sasan has been the owner for many years now, and celebrated Evangeline's 10th anniversary a few months ago. We talk a...

If you’re thinking about starting a restaurant or already trying to avoid a disaster with one, this ⁠⁠10-Step Restaurant Roadmap⁠⁠ will help you dodge pitfalls and get you to Opening Day faster. I’m inviting you to use it for no charge.

I want y'all to know that I'm speaking from the front lines and not an ivory tower. Here is the recent history of my restaurant group: two projects that never got off the ground. As always, I...

If you’re thinking about starting a restaurant or already trying to avoid a disaster, this 10-Step Restaurant Roadmap will help you avoid pitfalls and get you to Opening Day faster. I’m inviting you to use it for no charge.

Chef and CEO Thomas McNaughton of Flour +Water Hospitality Group trained in several of San Francisco's best kitchens before opening the original Flour + Water sixteen years ago. The brand has now expanded int...

If you’re thinking about starting a restaurant or already trying to avoid a disaster, this ⁠10-Step Restaurant Roadmap⁠ will help you avoid pitfalls and get you to Opening Day faster. I’m inviting you to use it for no charge.

How much money do I REALLY need to open a restaurant? Let's start with that one--nuts and bolts, nitty and gritty, dollars and cents. These are the five toughest and most common questions that I get from bu...

If you’re thinking about starting a restaurant or already trying to avoid a disaster, this ⁠10-Step Restaurant Roadmap⁠ will help you avoid pitfalls and get you to Opening Day faster. I’m inviting you to use it for no charge.

The Crunkleton is a Southern institution, and it founder, Gary Crunkleton, casts a long and legendary shadow. Gary joins us on The Restaurant Incubator to discuss scratch cocktail creation, opening your own bar...

If you’re thinking about starting a restaurant or already trying to avoid a disaster, this ⁠⁠10-Step Restaurant Roadmap⁠⁠ will help you avoid pitfalls and get you to Opening Day faster. I’m inviting you to use it for no charge.

Can you picture yourself accepting a $100,000 check from an investor? Today's episode hits the major steps in the business processes of restaurant creation that will get you to the investment stage and on...

If you’re thinking about starting a restaurant or already trying to avoid a disaster, this ⁠⁠10-Step Restaurant Roadmap⁠⁠ will help you avoid pitfalls and get you to Opening Day faster. I’m inviting you to use it for no charge.

Penn Valley, Nevada County, California doesn't show up on a lot of foodie bucket lists, but the lucky locals who celebrate at Zach Sterner's Twelve 28 Kitchen have voted his cuisine the best around year after...

If you’re thinking about starting a restaurant or already trying to avoid a disaster, this ⁠⁠10-Step Restaurant Roadmap⁠⁠ will help you avoid pitfalls and get you to Opening Day faster. I’m inviting you to use it for no charge.

Here's the episode I've been, well, warning you about. From CAM to CRE to COGS and beyond, I'll guide you through a list of acronyms, initials, and abbreviations you'll need to know as you nav...

If you’re thinking about starting a restaurant or already trying to avoid a disaster, this ⁠⁠10-Step Restaurant Roadmap⁠⁠ will help you avoid pitfalls and get you to Opening Day faster. I’m inviting you to use it for no charge.

Even if you're not good or unfamiliar with numbers, I've just built a free budget model that will generate an Operating Budget for you when you enter just one number. If you know the Annua Rent, Projected Rev...

If you’re thinking about starting a restaurant or already trying to avoid a disaster, this ⁠⁠10-Step Restaurant Roadmap⁠⁠ will help you avoid pitfalls and get you to Opening Day faster. I’m inviting you to use it for no charge.

In a special "FOH Strikes Back" edition of The Restaurant Incubator by The Industry Standard, Director of Operations and Beverage Programs Neal Benefield blends philosophy, tactics, and role-playing...

If you’re thinking about starting a restaurant or already trying to avoid a disaster, this ⁠⁠10-Step Restaurant Roadmap⁠⁠ will help you avoid pitfalls and get you to Opening Day faster. I’m inviting you to use it for no charge.

There are plenty of other restaurant 'experts' out there talking the talk, but as a seven-time Michelin star recipient and current owner-operator of three fine dining restaurants, I'm bringing you...

Ben Gambill (and his wife MC) partnered with Chef Sean Brock to bring Tokyo-inspired, neo-Neapolitan pizza to East Nashville. SHO Pizza Bar has been open a little over a month now, and Ben takes us from the spark of inspiration up through opening day.

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If you’re thinking about starting a restaurant or already trying to avoid a disaster with one, this ⁠⁠⁠10-Step Restaurant Roadmap⁠⁠⁠ will help you dodge pitfalls and get you to Opening Day faster. I’m inviting you to use it for no charge.

You've heard the 'urban legend' statistics ... 50% of restaurants go out of business in the first twelve months, and ninety percent close their doors for good within five years. I'v...

If you’re thinking about starting a restaurant or already trying to avoid a disaster with one, this ⁠⁠⁠10-Step Restaurant Roadmap⁠⁠⁠ will help you dodge pitfalls and get you to Opening Day faster. I’m inviting you to use it for no charge.

Chef Dan Jackson cut his teeth at Eleven Madison Park and served as an Executive Chef with Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group. Now he's back in his hometown of Chapel Hill, NC. Tr...