Planning Your Restaurant Business

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Restaurant Business Plans

It is just so easy to hate him. He took all those well thought out restaurant business plans, all those delectable recipes and smashed them in full view of the world. He screamed. He ranted. He shouted profanities too rotten to show on TV and terrified young chefs. He was, in short, a b*&^%$*&^. And I don't use that word much. If I knew worse words, I would use those.

The world has no use for business people who flaunt themselves as the gods' gift to humanity, and certainly not when they make it their business to put down everyone else. Life is just too short.

So, like many others, I smugly smiled when I read that Gordon Ramsay's restaurant business plan was falling apart. He is losing millions!!!! His advisors have recommended bankruptcy. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!! I simply could not be happier. It could not happen to someone who deserved it more.

He doesn't deserve to lose so much because he is such a jerk, although he certainly is. No, he deserves to lose his whole empire because he believed that acting like some whip lashing prima donna was more important than watching his own business.

Planning your restaurant business means a whole lot more than putting in some tables and chairs with a fancy menu. A whole more. Far more than most businesses, the successful restaurant business requires constant attention. Clients change. Waiters sluff off. Laundry services muddle it. Millions and millions of things happen every single day that need the close attention of someone who really cares.

When someone really does care, the restaurant shows it. A strong restaurant business plan is an everyday affair. Everything just comes together. Even if there are tough times, it still has a much better chance of making it than a neglected, cheap bordello.

So I'm grinning from ear to ear. You jerk, you asked for it.