Business Plans

For the prospective restaurateur, opening a new restaurant presents many challenges. From developing a concept to understanding market conditions to preparing financial projections, new restaurants can be complicated endeavors. By guiding clients through the restaurant development process, RDS shapes the foundation and development strategy for each restaurant.

Services:

• Review concept & formulate mission statement;
• Prepare global development strategy;
• Develop market analysis and strategic marketing plan;
• Develop stabilized year cash flow statement;
• Compare and contrast operating projections to National Restaurant Association segment-specific operating data;
• Prepare a development sources and uses of funds statement;
• Perform sensitivity analysis to determine profit and loss, break-even and return-on-investment ratios;
• Incorporate the above into standard business plan format.

Restaurant companies with multi-unit growth objectives must build solid foundations built on experience, research and careful financial planning. Using the same analytical techniques as described for the single-unit independent, RDS begins with the prototype restaurant unit. Building on the foundation and success of this unit, RDS provides a strategic and tactical plan for multi-unit expansion at the corporate level.

Services:

• Review concept & formulate mission statement;
• Prepare global development strategy;
• Develop market analysis and strategic marketing plan;
• Develop prototype unit stabilized year cash flow statement;
• Compare and contrast operating projections to National Restaurant Association segment-specific operating data;
• Prepare a prototype unit development sources and uses of funds statement;
• Perform sensitivity analysis to determine profit and loss, break-even and return-on-investment ratios;
• Derive development standards (including site selection, location, facilities and demographics);
• Develop organizational structure;
• Establish corporate level income and expense analysis;
• Prepare corporate level sources and uses of funds;
• Develop and institute training and support systems;
• Develop operations, training and personnel systems and manuals;
• Incorporate the above into standard business plan format.

Restaurant franchising has experienced rapid growth in recent decades and accounts for one-third of the $300 billion per year foodservice industry. RDS provides a variety of consulting services to both the franchiser and the franchisee.

For the franchisor, RDS offers the following services:

• Define development objectives, goals and procedures;
• Determine franchise fees, royalty payment schedules, and advertising fund contributions;
• Define franchisee territories;
• Develop criteria for area developer selection;
• Derive build-out requirements;
• Prepare franchising business plan;
• Develop and institute training and support systems;
• Develop operations, training and personnel systems and manuals.

For the franchisee, RDS offers the following services:

• Review existing franchisor material;
• Analyze income projections and cost estimates;
• Prepare unit level economics and corporate income and expense projections;
• Prepare franchise development business plan.

The U.S. represents a growing market for international restaurant companies looking to expand overseas. RDS provides a variety of customized consulting services to international clients, including:

• Strategic and conceptual planning;
• Business plan development;
• Demographic research and analysis;
• Operations planning;
• Site selection;
• Personnel identification and selection;
• Development of training and support systems;
• Development of operations, training and personnel manuals;
• Contract CFO and financial services.