SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
Five Star Restaurant Consultants is the leader in restaurant training. Whether you are a restaurateur looking for Customer Service Training, or an organization who would like to host a seminar for your restaurants or restaurant group, our seminars and workshops cover a wide range of topics from startup to exit strategy.
How to Open a Restaurant
This seminar offers strategies on all of the steps that need to be taken in order to get your doors open as well as the order in which they should occur. Topics include the importance of writing a business and financial plan, how to establish your business entity, financing options, choosing between purchasing a business opportunity versus a build-out, strategies for working through the permit process and more.
This seminar is taught in 2 two hour sessions.
How to Write a Restaurant Business Plan
This workshop will take you through the steps of writing a business plan for your restaurant concept and planning your financial strategy. Most Landlords and banks will want to see a copy of your plan prior to signing a lease or giving you a loan. The overall goal of this workshop is to prove to yourself that there is a customer base for your product. This seminar is taught in 2 two hour sessions.
How to Buy a Restaurant and Negotiate a Lease
This seminar outlines the options for purchasing a restaurant. Whether you are buying an existing restaurant business or negotiating a lease for a space, this seminar is highly recommended for the startup restaurateur. Negotiation is an art and a science and this seminar emphasizes proper representation but more importantly, some of the items that you should be asking for from the Landlord. This seminar is taught in one session for 2.5 hours.
Survive to Thrive in the Restaurant Industry
This seminar offers strategies on the top five things that a restaurateur needs to do to survive an economic downturn. Experienced restaurateurs that have been through a downturn before understand the importance of emergency mode. This seminar offers strategies on analyzing profit and loss statements and understanding industry benchmarks for profitability, working from a budget for food and bar purchases and payroll, menu engineering, rent reduction and marketing. This seminar is taught in one session for 2.5 hours.
Menu Pricing for Profitability
This seminar is one of the most popular in the Five Star series. Whether you are a startup restaurateur or an existing restaurant that needs to improve the bottom-line, this seminar is for you. Material covered includes how to price your menu for profitability using recipe cards, applying the industry standard markup, trade secrets for restaurant pricing, menu engineering and inventory and portion control. This seminar is taught in one session for 2.5 hours.
Customer Service Training
How do French Laundry and Gary Danko’s deliver Five Star service? How do we offer that level of service? They hire seasoned professionals and they train them. This seminar will teach you how develop a Five Star training program that includes the importance of a mission statement, building a team through core values, sequence of service and performance metrics. This training is up to 4 two hour sessions.
Create the Buzz – Social Media and Technology
Five Star Restaurant Consultants offers a marketing panel with top industry professionals in social media and new technologies for restaurants. Topics covered include the importance of a website and optimization, email marketing strategies, public relations, mobile and text marketing, gift card marketing and facebook, twitter and other low cost online marketing platforms.
All of our seminars and workshops are dynamic , motivational and reasonably priced. Call today for more information!
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