When opening a new business, it’s always best to have a plan. Even if you pride yourself on being able to fly by the seat of your pants, it’s good to at least have a general outline of how you’re going to run your business. Restaurants are no exception; there’s more to running one than just whipping up food and getting it to the customers’ tables or delivering it to their homes on time. Here’s our guide on how to create the best pizza business plan.
A Recipe for Success
People who prefer to play things by ear may wonder what benefit there is to creating a business plan. Creating a pizza restaurant business plan is an important tool for securing funding. Many banks, lending companies, and investors want evidence that an entrepreneur will be able to make the money to pay off their debt or provide investors with a good return on their investments. A business plan also helps you convey your vision for your business and ensure all your employees and any business partners are all on the same page, that everyone understands their responsibilities.
All the Right Ingredients
To create a good pizza business plan, there are certain elements you should be sure to include. These parts can be broken down into four sections:
The Executive Summary
This part of your plan provides an overview of your business and key highlights from the remaining three sections. It’s also a good place to talk about your long-term vision.
The Research Section
It’s important for your pizzeria business plan to include information gathering. Your plan should include an industry analysis to determine the market’s existing size and growth trends. A customer analysis will help you understand the wants and needs of your customers. A competition analysis will help you determine the strengths and weaknesses of rival pizza businesses.
The Strategic Section
Your pizza business plan also needs to outline how you intend to operate your location. Your marketing strategy should go over the products and services you provide, your place of business, your pricing, and your promotional efforts. Your operations strategy should cover how you handle your day-to-day business and milestones you’re pursuing. Your financial strategy should have your financial projections and calculations on how much funding you’ll need to achieve your long-term objectives.
The Organization Section
Finally, your plan should include an overview of your business organization. You should lay out the names and number of positions you’ll have, as well as creating an organizational chart to determine who will be supervising different areas of your business. Also, make sure to designate your management/leadership team so your business’s decision makers will be clearly identified.
Creating a business plan can be a complex task, with all the above-mentioned parts going into making sure it’s comprehensive and properly organized. If you want to open an independent pizzeria, you’ll have to take on this responsibility yourself. However, you have an alternative: opening a franchise.
Franchising allows you to operate your business for yourself, but not by yourself. With a franchisor like Antioch Pizza®, you’ll receive support in a variety of ways, including receiving financial data based on a proven business model to assist you in developing your business plan. You’ll also receive support services like initial and ongoing training, as well as marketing and advertising services.
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