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The $100 MBA Show

MBA847 Q&A Weekends: I want to open a restaurant/ cafe. Any advice? [REBROADCAST]

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

If there's one industry out there that's tougher than most, it's the restaurant industry! In this rebroadcast listener Q&A, we helped one audience member get ready for the realities of the business.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:03.4

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0:06.7

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0:22.0

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0:27.0

Today's Q&A Weekend's question is all about starting a restaurant slash cafe.

0:31.9

A listener is thinking about starting one and is looking

0:34.8

for any advice. The restaurant business is no joke. It's one of the hardest yet

0:40.8

most rewarding businesses to run.

0:43.8

I'm actually reading a very interesting book by Anthony Bourdain

0:46.4

called Kitchen Confidential.

0:48.1

It's his first book at the bestseller.

0:50.7

And it gives you all these insights

0:52.3

about how the restaurant business works.

0:55.0

So you're thinking about starting anything in food and beverage or even hospitality,

0:59.0

I recommend picking up this book, as well as listening to today's episode. This episode first aired about 300 episodes ago, but we want to

1:06.8

rebroadcast it because we know some of you have some interest in

1:09.9

building a physical business, especially in the restaurant business.

1:14.0

So enjoy this one and I'll be back with a fresh new episode, another Q&A weekends episode tomorrow.

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