Starting a roast dinner/english breakfast fast food outlet

[PreemieBoutique]

Hello

I am posting this as I am requiring advice on if this is potentially a successful idea. I have no experience in cooking or the restaurant industry at all but its an idea I have had for a while, I have conducted market research in my area and from my results I have concluded this will be potentially a viable business and there is no competition in my area either.

The plan is to set up a fast food outlet that delivers roast dinners/lunches and all day English breakfasts. I have a family member who is a chef who plans to join me on this and split costs and initially work in the company.

What would I need to do from here in order to set this up? As mentioned I have no experience on setting this type of business up as I own an eCommerce business which was started on just a few hundred pounds of my own money and do not own premises.

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Make a full business plan would be a great start, many templates can be found on Google and also google starting a cafe

 

[Simply Business]

Two of my favourite meals (if you can call a full English a meal)!

I'd certainly be a customer What sort of prices would you be looking at? One of the only problems I could see is keeping the quality of food up, especially with the roast dinners.

 

[Gateway2Digital]

Mmmm! nothing better than a full english. But its hard with a Restaurant like this as there are so many things like it out their. For example toby carvery, chef and brewer and more. What you need to do is differentiate. You have a USP being the fast food idea which is good. You will need to keep the quality good and the price reasonable or people will just go to the big competitors.
I think it can work, Do you need funding or are you just going off Personal capital?
Hope it helps

 

[Deleted member 226268]

fast food outlet that delivers roast dinners/lunches and all day English breakfasts.

Do you mean, physically deliver meals to people's place of work ?
... using couriers on a bike ?
.

 

[peggyprice]

Anyone looking to run a successful catering business needs to cover two things - the business side, which needs planning, cash flow forecasting, funding, staffing, marketing etc just like any other business - and the catering side, which has very specific demands in terms of environmental health, legislation and customer confidence.

Look up 'environmental health' on your local council's website and you'll find loads of info on what you are required to do to set up a catering business. Download the 'Safer Food Better Business' pack from the FSA and work through it. You'll need to register as a food business, you'll need to make sure that wherever you are preparing & selling your food is set up to meet environmental health standards, and you'll need to make sure that you and any staff you have have done appropriate food handling training (you can do that online now, not expensive at all but really important - you really need to understand how not to poison people before you start!).

Good luck!

 

[Airgunner]

I like the idea, I've often joked that I'd love a McSunday dinner when struggling for time at the end of the weekend!

 

[NetHosted - Darryl]

It does sound like a good idea if the numbers work out, would be happy to use a service like this.

Good luck with it!