Introduction
The business idea for opening a multi-cultural restaurant catering clients across the community is turned into an opportunity for establishing an entrepreneurial venture. The extensive research and development process as well as market research is conducted to address the issue of providing a localized taste for international cuisine in fine dining restaurant settings (Long, 2013). The food, ambiance, service, and authentic of taste are major elements of focus while developing the plan for seizing business opportunity adhering to a unique restaurant idea. The below sections provide a detailed overview, management, marketing, and financial segments of the proposed project.
OVERVIEW
Business idea:
The Round Globe restaurant is focused to offer fine dining and relaxed atmosphere for customers offering authentic ethic dishes in menu which are carefully selected from different cuisines. As the name suggests, the restaurant will be serving food selected from authentic cuisines around the world. Fusion will also be carried out to some of the dishes in order to maintain localized taste for menu dishes. The business idea is also based on a notion that increased travelling, immigration, and cross border trading in globalized economies has created opportunities to cater local market consumers with authentic and fusion recipes (Jang, Liu, & Namkung, 2011). It will also help the business provide customers with a localized taste and feel of food.
Business type:
The Round Globe restaurant is a new business venture based on a creative idea of offering multi-cultural cuisines under one roof. The authenticity and fusion of the cuisines is primary focus of the business. The business is opened with a vision to provide a cultural eleme...
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...le payment for the loan is made $9,000 while owner has drawn almost $45,000 during the year. The business is attaining breakeven in the sixth month of its operations. (Please see Annex II for details).
Conclusion
The business opportunity of setting up an entrepreneurial restaurant venture with multicultural dishes menu is defined in the sections above. The overview of business provides an overall understanding of the project concept and its salient features. The management sections are focused on key team members, their roles, and responsibilities for the restaurant operations. The marketing sections are focused on strategy for business expansion and growth. The financial projections allow identifying total project cost and its viability. It is significantly observed that the business opportunity can enable the entrepreneur to efficiently operate and attain growth.
When different kinds of menu for lunch and dinner are included, there is an opportunity for attraction of more clients in the new outlet
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The Santa Fe Grill is a relatively new Mexican restaurant that was started by two former business students from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The idea sparked after the two roommates who were both interested in pursuing entrepreneurial interests decided that a Mexican restaurant in their city would be highly successful. While taking an entrepreneur class at the University, the plan for the business began coming together. Their main focus was to create a restaurant that would feature the freshest ingredients, as well as a lively atmosphere, cutting edge advertising and marketing, plus exceptional service for customers. (Research Methods, Pg. 19) By doing so, the students hoped that they could fulfill their dreams of ownership.
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