6 Helpful Resources For Creating Your Restaurant Business Plan

If you haven’t created a restaurant business plan, now is the time to do so. Every business needs a plan, but in an industry as dynamic as the restaurant and hospitality industry, a plan isn’t just a requirement that gets thrown in to the depths of a back office; Rather, it should be at the forefront of everything you do, pushing you forward from goal to goal, ensuring your business succeeds and becomes the most popular restaurant in town.

Today, by linking to some of our favorite restaurant business plan resources, we aim to help drive your business forward. Whether you’re about to start planning your business, or you need a formal, documented plan to present to a bank, the resources below should help you determine you goals, help analyze your competition, and ensure you move forward every day.

How to Write a Restaurant Business Plan

Here are some of our favorite articles with tips and advice regarding the content of your business plan.

How to Create a Winning Restaurant Business Plan – RestaurantOwner.com

Provided by RestaurantOwner.com, this incredibly detailed article starts from the very beginning, discussing who your business plan is for and why you need one. The article takes you from the first words to the finished article, and also discusses managing and protecting your plan to ensure nobody else steals your ideas. Read this article…

How to Write a Business Plan for a Restaurant or Food Business – Chron.com

Written by Charmayne Smith, using her extensive experience in corporate management and property/casualty insurance, this article shares a ten step approach to writing a practical business plan. Read this article…

Fast Food, Pizza or Michelin Star Plan for Success – StartupBusinessHub.com

This comprehensive article provides a well detailed list of all the sections your business plan should contain in order to impress potential investors and ensure you have a plan for success. Read this article…

Restaurant Business Plan Templates

While advice in articles such as those above is often helpful, seeing actual examples of business plans will be a huge asset in helping you ensure your plan is practical and complete. Below, we share our favorite business plan templates.

Restaurant, Café, and Bakery Sample Business Plans – BPlans.com

With over 50 sample business plans for many different types of restaurants and hospitality businesses, this website will certainly have a template you can learn from or use as a base when writing your own plan. Read this article…

Virtual Restaurant Business Plan Template – VirtualRestaurant.com

Starting with a company description, and finishing with financial projections, this template includes everything any potential investor could ever wish to see in a business plan. Read this article…

American Diner Sample Business Plan – ReferenceForBusiness.com

Using a scenario of a 1950s themed American Diner, this business plan gets to the heart of what it is really like to plan the launch of a restaurant. Including sample analysis of the restaurants competitors, to discussion of the proposed menu, this business plan serves as excellent inspiration for any buddy restaurateur. Read this article…

Do you have a business plan for your restaurant? Do you have any tips for presenting your plan to investors such as the bank? Let us know in the comments below.