How many years does it take to have your own business with cooking?
How many years does it take to have your own business with in cooking? #business #entrepreneurship #cooking
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MelissaWilliams’s Answer
There is no one path to becoming a restaurant owner. The amount of formal education varies--some restaurant owners did not go to college, others have MBAs (that's 2 years in addition to 4 years of college). Before opening your own food business, it's very important have experience working in the type of restaurant that you're interested in opening. You'll need to spend a few year working in restaurants and doing as many different jobs as possible.
When you own a food-service business you'll need to develop menus, order supplies and inventory, manage your staff, create and carry out marketing / PR drives to bring in customers, and doing a lot of paperwork to make sure that you are complying with lots of different local, state, and federal laws. Before opening a business, you should get exposure to as many of those aspects as possible.
Another consideration that may influence how long it takes to open your own business is how easy it is for you to get the money to open a business. You'll need money to rent space, buy equipment, buy inventory, pay your staff--if you already have the money, then you could spend it directly, but if you don't have the money, you'll have to spend time raising the money.