Restaurant, Lounge & Bar Business Plan Consulting

In the past two decades, we have written hundreds of business plans for restaurants, food trucks, ghost kitchens, bars, lounges, and other food & beverage businesses. We have enjoyed seeing the positive results achieved by many of our clients when their business plans and financial forecasts were submitted to banks, investors, and landlords. Recently, it…

As we’ve mentioned previously, we write many business plans for restaurant entrepreneurs. And, of course, we’ve published several blog posts on the subject. In 2014, we explained that the operational side of a restaurant is just as important as the menu, location, and quality of customer service. A year later, we argued why successful restaurant…

In 2012, when we were just beginning to understand the popularity of food trucks, we wrote a blog post titled Food Trucks are Hot! The post discussed the increasing demand for food trucks and why they were becoming so popular. It also asked the questions that an investor or banker might ask of the food…

At Cayenne Consulting we’ve written dozens of restaurant business plans and created an equal number of financial forecasts for our restaurant and hospitality clients. For the most part, we can proudly claim that our clients love our work and, equally as important, our clients’ lenders and investors love our work as well. This success has…

My wife and I have eaten a lot of pizza this summer; way more than we usually eat. It’s not really a problem for us because we have gotten so much exercise hiking in the mountains. Our unusual pizza consumption occurred to me as I was evaluating a pizza restaurant concept that a prospective client…

Food trucks are the iPads of the restaurant industry. They are small, portable and very, very popular. We had a client recently who gave up his middle management job with a large communications firm so that he could purchase and run a food truck. He will operate the truck in Florida in the winters and…