1.Psychological preparation before opening a hot pot restaurant

To be prepared for long-term hardship and suffering, many people who want to open a hot pot restaurant only see the benefits of “good cash flow and good returns”, ignoring the hard side of the industry.

2.Be prepared to "prevent the time bomb"

Well,the catering industry has two time bombs that are hung at all times – fire safety and food hygiene.Firefighting work is not sloppy. The restaurant should be used with fire, electricity, and oil. If an accident occurs, it will not only suffer economic losses, but also bear criminal responsibility.And if you do not pay attention to food hygiene, it will become a mass incident of food safety, and enterprises will also suffer from the disaster.

3.Fund preparation before opening a hot pot restaurant

For example,in China,at present, a hot pot restaurant of 600-800 square meters and 60-80 sets is about to prepare 600,000 yuan of funds, including at least 7 months of rent (including half a year's rent and the equivalent of one month's rent). Deposits, decoration, installation of facilities and equipment, staff recruitment training, pre-advertising and other expenses, but also to prepare about 100,000 yuan for the turnover of funds.

4.The restaurant address selection

If you choose a good address, the success rate of the hot pot restaurant will exceed 50%. But it takes a lot of time and effort to choose a good restaurant address.In general, a good business address has such characteristics: More permanent residents and floating population,more catering,sufficient parking.

5.Hot pot restaurant decoration

As we all know, the decoration is a deep and shallow “bottomless hole”. The popular hot pot restaurant, how to make a bright spot with limited investment, makes people feel different when they come in. It is a complicated matter. The well-decorated hot pot restaurant has a rich theme and connotation. Customers can feel the unique culture and atmosphere, the combination of eating and music, strong participation, relaxed atmosphere and embarrassing characteristics.

6.Purchase of hot pot equipment

The choice of buying hot pot equipment can be combined with the overall design image of the hot pot restaurant. After all, there are too many hot pot equipment styles on the market. There are too many types to choose from, which is not convenient for us to choose, but we can combine the restaurant. The current style to make the right choice, not only the fashion design, but also to ensure safety and practicality, in the color, style, materials and other aspects must be taken into account, choose the right hot pot equipment(included hot pot induction cookers,smokeless purification equipment,hot pot tables,hot pot chairs and sofas seating furniture hot pot cookware and other hot pot accessories and so on) in the restaurant with the right mix Under the circumstances, the entire hot pot store will be upgraded to a texture, and the personalized fashion style will be displayed, giving the diners a good impression.

7.Employee recruitment and training

Catering is a labor-intensive industry. Recruitment work is difficult and employees are not very skilled. For example, the 600-800 square hot pot restaurant should have about 70 employees (50-60 people in normal configuration). Moreover, in order to save time, it is necessary to carry out recruitment and training of employees while decorating.

The first recruiting is the management staff, including the store manager, the front office manager, the supervisor, the head chef, the finance, the library management, and the procurement. The inspection of their work experience and experience should be carried out as far as possible in the place where they worked, because some people compare I can say but do not do practical things, and some people are not good at expressing but very capable. Therefore, after a variety of inspections, we must fully understand their work ability and professionalism.

After the management is confirmed, recruitment of other personnel such as welcome, bar, waiter, passer, cook, parking, cashier and cleaning staff will be carried out.

After the employees are recruited, you must solve the problem of eating and living for them. It is necessary to rent a few sets of houses for 70 employees in the vicinity of the hot pot restaurant, using high and low beds. Generally, a house with three sets can accommodate 10-15 people; for dinner, it is a staff meal or a lunch box.

8.Purchasing

Purchasing is an important part of catering management. Usually, the purchasing staff is usually the relatives or cronies of the boss, but CENHOT believes that the most important thing is the management system and method. Otherwise, any credible person will be a long time. Something went wrong. In the early stage of the opening, the procurement work is best done by the boss. The benefits are four--understand various products; understand the status of each market; find out the price; learn to identify the quality of the product.

As the price of raw materials has risen tremendously in recent years, as an operator, it is necessary to go to the market to understand the market at any time in order to find out the price changes, and also to care about the yield of raw materials. For example, beef of the same price and weight sometimes differs in quality depending on the manufacturer, resulting in different servings of different products, and the same product will have different yields in different hot pot restaurants.

9.How to set the price of hot pot

The pricing of dishes is a very sensitive issue. If the price is high, most of the guests will not open their mouths, but they are dissatisfied and many will not visit them next time. Here is a way for reference: The food assessment team decides whether or not each new dish is promoted and priced. The group is amateur and subject to change, from taxi drivers, factory workers, housewives, white-collar workers, private business owners, and governments. Officials, famous foodies, etc., they have sufficient advice on the quantity and price of dishes.

10.Opening

The decoration and training will be carried out in the later stage, and the preparation for the opening will be completed about half a month in advance. First choose a lucky day, preferably on the weekend, and then develop a marketing plan.

In order to create an atmosphere and attract people, it is generally necessary to set up inflatable arches, gas pillars, colored balls, congratulations to the flower baskets outside the store, and some of the best towers to perform some song and dance performances.

Special reminder, these things generally have to occupy the road, so be sure to go to the urban management department to go through the formalities, register and record, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble on the opening day.

11.Cost control and energy saving

Remind everyone who enters this industry, especially to open a single store, and be more cautious.The cost of the hot pot restaurant is rent, water and electricity, employee wages, taxes, miscellaneous fees and advertising expenses. If you want to do everything possible to save energy and reduce consumption, you can reduce some controllable expenses.

For example, after leaving a guest in a certain area, the lights, air conditioners, and exhaust fans should be turned off without affecting other customers. The miscellaneous expenses including office, procurement, transportation, maintenance, etc. should also be saved.

Before making publicity, we should discuss with the senior food reporters repeatedly, determine the propaganda plan, media and price, and ensure that every penny is used in the cutting edge while ensuring the effect.