Restaurant business is one business that has been creating millionaires in Nigeria for decades. They will always be the need for places to eat out. You can take advantage of this opportunity and start your own restaurant business in Nigeria today. A good local restaurant like the one I am about to explain make about N20,000 daily as pure profit. Multiply that by 30 and you will get N600,000.
Now, let’s get down to the business of the day – One business that strikes my attention really good today is Small scale Restaurant Business. I find so much interest in the restaurant business because it’s a sure money maker, anyone who wants to make quick money shouldn’t look elsewhere. The sky is your limit in this business provided you take your restaurant business serious and treat your customers well with good food.
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Small Scale Restaurant is very easy to start and low capital intensive. It can even go together with Beer Parlour business but I prefer it as a stand-alone business because, not everyone is comfortable eating in a beer parlour. Being one of the few businesses that is not affected by any economic meltdown – People must eat no matter how poor they are, no matter the situation they are, even if unemployed. Anyone can eat even if it is with the last penny he or she can afford, that’s what make restaurant business very lucrative. I think serious investors should give it a serious look.
With less than N300,000 you can start a nice local restaurant and with good food, good business practice, and proper customer care – you will be making above N500,000 monthly! So, what are you waiting for?
This To Put In Place For Your Restaurant Business
To start your own restaurant business, there are certain things you need to consider and put in place. To ensure you are on the right track, and as a lover of good restaurant myself, I will be explaining some of the things you need to put in place to get you started smooth and easily.
1. Good Space For Your Restaurant
Everyone likes to enjoy his food in a spacious laid back environment. Make sure you get a place as nice as possible you can afford – In fact, your major investment should go into this. If it’s going be a shop, let it be the one with extended frontage so that you can build canopy to afford your customers more seating space.
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The cost of rent depends on the environment but I think you can get a nice place with N100,000. Go for the best you can afford any area where there is enough movement of people.
2. Furnish Your Restaurant
When it comes to restaurant, look is everything to me and I think it apply to most people out there too. I can hardly eat in a place that doesn’t look nice and so do many; make sure your restaurant is well furnished to taste. The quality of your food and the type of cook you are can be perceive through your restaurant furniture
The furniture may take about N150,000 depending on what you go for and your bargaining power. You can get a local carpenter who (with proper supervision) will do very good furniture at lower cost for you. I wouldn’t recommend plastic chairs and tables, it makes your restaurant look unorganized, cheap, and untidy. But if that’s what you can afford, then you go for it.
3. Restaurant Utensils and Accessories
N50,000 will be able to take care of these, don’t buy something childish like plastic plates. Many people (including me) will reject the food no matter how good it looks if you serve it in plastic plates and spoon. Apart from the fact that they look cheap and childish, the tendency of dirt hiding somewhere and the plate being discolored is high.
Ceramic and Breakables are the preferred type you should go for and they are not very expensive. Feeding is a very sensitive thing and a lot of people don’t take what goes into their stomach lightly, it’s not just about filling the stomach, it’s about satisfaction, health, and enjoyment. While you make effort to prepare good foods for your customers, make sure you don’t ridicule your effort with cheap plates because, food look and taste better when served in a better plate.
4. Employ Good Cook
People will fall in love with your food if they are well cooked and taste great, make sure the Cook you intend to employ knows how to cook different types of meal very well. If you wants to do the cooking yourself, don’t just do it because you want to work hard and minimize expenses, do it because you can cook very well. I wouldn’t waste my money twice in a bad restaurant!
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Once you have these things I’ve mentioned in place, you’re good to go with your business and start making money like never before. Good luck as you make effort to start your dream business this year.
Thank you so much..coming across your page has infused me with a new passion for life!
Read this recently: ‘As for the journey of life; at some point, you will realize that you are the driver and you will drive!’
You are welcome! Hope life will keep bringing good things henceforth
Starting with the new restaurant business furnishings must be taken consideration seriously and I agree with the fact that plastic chairs and tables and unhealthy furniture makes your restaurant look unorganized, cheap, and untidy. People like to sit on the furniture and adore them if they look nice. I would prefer looking at furniture made from recycled wood and the flooring of Marri wood looks perfect in restaurant. Nice post indeed.
Appreciate this bro!
I just stumbled on this I open mine @ end of dis month thanks so much
U just generally broke it down for me so am just going to re-arrange my budget to ur format
Thank u so much will keep u updated
Nice and encouraging write up.Getting the right cook(s) can be pretty difficult but its worth a try..thinking about other operating costs like power, water.. In Nigeria these 2 are important factors..
Thanks for this bro.its an open minded idea.
Thanks a lot for mentioning the plastic angle, I was about to get those colourful plastic chairs but actually prefer wooden furniture so your post came in handy. Thanks.
You are welcome Vivien. Thank God you are here on time
thanks so much for your post…. but can you give us an article of a business one can start with 200k?
Hi, you are quiet right! The food the restaurant biz is a very profitable venture, …. only if it is done right. Alot of the ideas you have proffered are helpful but also contradictory. I consider them insightful but also misleading. Anyone who reads your article might be inspired but if they ventured based on most of the assumptions you have made, they would realise that you are not the angel they thought you were. These ideas are luxurious and I dont see how one can start a restaurant with N300k (esp with the budget you have listed above) and still make N120k at the end of the month.food, labour cost etc for a start up restaurant is about % 68 maybe mofe sef. It a far more daunting enterprise and even though the notion behind this article is commendable. Kudos n honor must be given to those bukas, food trucks, etc im sorry if I sound insensitive or brash…. many thanks for the opportunity 'Joe Adonis
It's great I come across this at this point but 300k isn't feasible if we are to go by your advice and plan. What you listed there will cost nothing less than 600k including power and cost of Labour.
Your article is a good eye opener anyway and I must say "well done". Emmanuel Obende
Thanks a lot,this idea is more of what customers look out for… it was helpful.
Always have this at the back of ur mind “start from small” if not scratch with 300k you good to go I just got a shop at San go n am starting small the uniqueness always makes the difference, starting with d colourful plastic chair is no bad idea, so no discouragement perfect breakdown God bless you Mr Emmanuel for that
I love this article @Darlinton and I love ur comment @ Abayomi, please if u don’t mind, can u pls share with us the pictures of ur newly set up restaurant.
Thanks and God bless u and the work of ur hands @Darlinton and @Abayomi
Never like those very light plastic chairs..easily disorganized. Stocky wooden tables with MDF plywood and chairs from teak wood (well polished) will give a wonderful scenery. Entertainment, neatness can be crowd pullers.
you start from somewhere…….you will later grow to the point that you can easily get money to construct those furnitures
i understand and accept that for every article, there must be some critiques as seen in the instance above Omeh has made his suggestion and advise and i believe this is visible. start small and allow it to grow. even if his estimation is not adding, the idea that restaurant business has been and will always be lucrative anywhere in the world cannot be underestimated. i am working on one at the moment and his article had added given more appetite
Thanks a lot! I had wanted to start with plastic seats and tables but thanks to your article, I guess I have to think twice about that. But what about those wonderful seats not wooden used in high class restuarants, those should I say Iron-ceramic seats, (to be honest don’t know there classification or name) I kinda like that you know, they look soothing with the floor tiles. But you didn’t say anything about the counter or shouldn’t there be a counter?
Anything good is okay. Just be creative in selecting your chairs and choice of furniture.
Thanks a lot. Though I wouldn’t take into consideration the amount you stated which looks absurd but your article was helpful. But what about using that kind of seats in the picture you posted? Wouldn’t that be nice? It really soothes the tiled floor. And what’s you thought about a mixture of that seat with the wooden funiture? I would like to consider it.
Thanks for this information online. You saved a whole family from doing it wrongly.
Awesome article…..I gotthis information at the right time. I am at the verge og starting a restaurant business in one of the nigerian higher institutio.
I’m gonna employ the information above as a guide to my business….Thanks alot.
Awesome opportunity thanks so much. Mr Omeh
Looking forward to start my owned restaurant business. Hoping to grow to a standard that I will be able to invest in palness.com
Thanks so much more. GRACE SiR!!
Thanks for this.. I’m scheming to start mine at the moment with 600k
This is an eye opening post.
Please can you just show us the example of chair you are talking about.
Thanks
Nice one, you are trying bro, check infoguide.com.ng please
Thank you for the information. I’m launching my own canteen at my University this year. still crafting the plan.
Nice information. You have explained needy things that are must for becoming a successful owner of a restaurant business.
Woo I love everything about this page
Thanks for the information
Wow! This is really interesting and educating. No time to waste. Thanks
Very educative, am just bless with this.
Thanks I have Been trying to do this for a long time u just gave me a push
Are there people who one can engage to revamp and boost up an ailing restaurant business? Professionals who know how to turn around a small restaurant business and make it profitable
thanks abunch sir for this push..
I hv just a plan for starting this in the nearest future but am always afraid of where and how to start..
this ur write up is just a nice push..
If you don’t mind, could you pls create a group, in one of the social media platforms, say Whatsap or Facebook where we can consult you subsequently?
thanks once again
Great Article. I am planning to start this in my location soon.
Both the article and the comments are VERY VERY useful for me.
Thank you Darlington Omeh and those whose critical views add to
the content.
Am so happy to stumble on this post. I have always dream about owing a restaurant in the future but worried as I dont know how to go about it. I just decided today to write down my plans and lo I stumbled on your post. Infact i wrote down almost all you said here. Am super happy now and more encouraged to go into it. I have passion for cooking and I cook well too. God bless you sir.
Very useful information, great article.
Came at the time i need it.
I’m happy I came across this wonderful piece. I’m relocating to Lagos with this food business in mind. I can raise 600 to 700,000# and I dont know how to locate a good spot. I left Lagos for marriage and remained in Delta for almost 15yrs. Alot must have changed in Lagos. Pls what us the likely cost of renting a store in a low cost/middle cost area, then I build an attache at the front decently? Also, which markets sells foodstuff cheaply there?
What’s your advise for a starter like me? Starting with a small quantity like 1 or 2 painter of rice? Or should I print handfliers first to let people around there know what’s coming new in the area? Pls help me.
You may have to stretch your budget beyond 300k or maybe it’s a buka, so it depends on what you plan on doing.you may need to repaint the shop, maybe buy a fan,a carpet,pay staff, settle taskforce in some areas,buy the food stuffs you want to cook and so on and so forth.