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How to Start a Restaurant

Ready to leverage your entrepreneurial skills? Here’s a beginner’s step-by-step guide to launching a restaurant!*

How to Start a Restaurant A Step-By-Step Guide

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What’s Inside?

Inside this step-by-step guide, you can find:

  • Lower-cost restaurant startup ideas
  • Details on licenses & permits you may need for your restaurant
  • Tips for marketing your restaurant business
  • …and a lot more!

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Begin Your Restaurateur Journey With Confidence

As a new restaurant owner, starting your own venture can be a highly-rewarding experience! However, it’s important to build a solid foundation in business from the start.

Our guide can show you:

  • Essential culinary and business skills you may need to succeed
  • How to decide on your restaurant target niche
  • The key to hiring skilled team members

Take the Next Step!

With the proper culinary and business education, you can set your dream of becoming an entrepreneur in motion.

Download our guide to starting a restaurant and take the next step today.

Anybody can say they are a chef. As far as the management portion, that is where Escoffier is actually helping me run a restaurant, run a café, or run a business. And that’s what I want – my own restaurant.”**
Escoffier Graduate Tiffany Moore TIFFANY MOORE
ONLINE CULINARY ARTS GRADUATE, CO‑FOUNDER & CHEF, EVENT HALL @ CASCADE

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