Restaurant Start-Up Resources – one of the First FREE Restaurant Portals on the Internet

I'm not that great of a writer, but I am very good at research. So please excuse any bad grammar or spelling errors. I have created a FoodService Resource Website based on my experience opening, operating and selling E&S to restaurants. In the old days when we opened up a restaurant we had to run all over town picking up applications, permits, rules and regulations, inspection requests and tons of other paperwork. We went through 100's of catalogs setting specifications for equipment, furniture, tabletop, smallwares, etc. As a salesperson I spent 100's of hours helping end-users specify equipment, smallwares, furniture, tabletop, etc.

With the advent of the internet, it has become ever easier to find all the things that you need on-line. The only problem is that all that stuff is all over the place and can be difficult to locate quickly and efficiently. Search engines return millions of links and it's easy to wind up at a dead end. Also, the companies that come up at the top of the search lists are not always the most qualified to provide the goods or services that you need. Pay-per click advertising and other crafty means of manipulating the search engines often put the worst companies at the top.

My Website is a no frills, meat and potato site that offers tools and resources for the Restaurant Owner/Manager/Worker. The website actually started as a way to help a friend of mine open her Catering/Special Events Facility in Alpharetta Georgia (http://www.themetropolitanclub.net). I started finding and aggregating all the information, documents, links, and requirements that I could find from the internet. The easiest way to organize all the information available was to create a navigatable website that categorized and linked all the different documents.

I sell space on my web to reputable companies that sell to the restaurant market. Eventually, I would like to bring some manufacturers (ones that I have used and trust) on board as sponsors. So far, I have collected information on 22 States, and we are adding more all the time. If you are in a State that I have not started, please

Email Me

and I will get to work on it.
I have a

Research Page

specifically designed for people that are “thinking about” getting into the “Restaurant Business”. The page has some rudimentary steps about what you have to do and think about when getting started, along with articles on what it is like to run a restaurant. I especially like the advice given to people with no experience in the biz, which suggests working as a dishwasher in a restaurant that has the volume of business that you would like to achieve. If you can work at that job for a month, you will have a better understanding of what it takes to be an owner. The page also contains a sample P&L, a Smallwares Requirements List, a Pre-Opening Checklist (Both-Downloadable below), a Restaurant Market Analysis Tool, and many other resources that describe the colossal task of opening and operating a restaurant.
Have Fun!
Be #1,

Carl Muth
FoodServiceResource.com