2024 KRG Hospitality 500-point Bar & Restaurant Start-up Checklist
by David Klemt
Opening a bar or restaurant is a daunting undertaking, with projects requiring the completion of 500 unique tasks within four phases before welcoming guests.
It takes strategic clarity along with a strong supportive team around you to ensure your dream doesn’t turn into a nightmare. To help you get ahead and start 2024 with the strongest opportunity for success, we’re giving you access to a number of free resources.
First, our 2024 Bar & Restaurant Start-up Costs Guide. If you haven’t already, download this informative guide today. And now, our 2024 500-point Bar & Restaurant Start-up Checklist.
KRG Hospitality’s feasibility studies, concept and brand development, and programming are unique and customized to every client. However, the journey from idea to grand opening is a well-worn path dotted by hundreds of waypoints.
There’s a reason we call our project plans Roadmaps to Success: we’re here to help guide our clients to and through each point on the map.
Below you’ll find 32—only six percent—of the 500 unique tasks we at KRG believe you must complete before your grand opening. Just these tasks alone should provide an idea of the enormity that is taking your concept from idea to brick and mortar.
To download your free copy of our 2024 500-point Bar & Restaurant Start-up Checklist, click here. As you’ll see once you open this checklist, it’s interactive. You can easily check off items as you complete them, and the document will save your progress.
Opening a bar or restaurant is challenging. We’re here to help make it easier.
Planning Phase
Self-assessment
- Mindset assessment
- Support network assessment
Feasibility Study
- Market viability study
- Technical viability study
Brand Strategy
- Vision statemet
- Frame of reference
Tech-stack Plan
- Service technology plan
- Payment processing technology
Project Set-up Phase
Job Scopes for Project
- Landlord presentation
- Equipment vendor presentation
Project Support Team Plan
- Industry consultant
- Legal Advisor
Menu Testing
- Final flavor profile creation
- Theoretical costing, food
Interior Design
- Final choice in furniture
- Final choice for millwork design
Operational Set-up Phase
Operational Vendors
- Bar and kitchen smallware vendor
- Refrigeration tech vendor
- Hood cleaning vendor
- Grease trap cleaning vendor
SOP Procedures/System
- Finalize hourly operations plan
- Application forms
- Food safety quiz
- Leadership team manual
Launch Phase
Marketing Execution
- Creation of media package
- Search engine optimization
Tech-stack execution
- Point-of-sale systems
- Menu management systems
Team Onboarding
- Leadership team onboard
- Team-building exercises
Soft Opening
- Menu timing
- Menu feedback
To download your free copy of our 2024 500-point Bar & Restaurant Start-up Checklist, click here now!
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