1. Do hot pot, the most important thing is the pot base. Relating to the long-term interests of the store. Is it to join or self-creation or outsourcing? Home about joining, such as big brands, high popularity, but the joining fee is expensive, but also deposit and so on, of course, have the money to say otherwise. The advantage is that there is brand awareness, there is a reputation, their own efforts to save energy, everything according to the standard to go. But it is a big investment in the early stage, the return on capital is relatively slow. Or that money is another story.
Small and medium-sized brands, only limited to some areas have popularity, have a reputation, joining the general fee. It is to save yourself some heart. Other not much advantage, the usual supply of dishes and pot bottom price some headquarters pricing slightly expensive (to talk first, do a good job of comparison.). It is easy to fall into the pit, do not ask me why I know.) Even some of the reputation is not good enough to charge a bunch of messy fees.
Returning to the homemade hot pot base, there are two ways, one to learn their own frying materials and dishes and so on hot pot related technical skills. The other is to hire a hot pot master chef to come back, he takes care of the back kitchen stuff, the price is not necessarily, depending on the experience and your charisma!
Talking about outsourcing hot pot base, first of all, a wide range of buy back slowly screening, find yourself and your family and relatives and friends satisfied with the flavor, native locals best, in line with the taste of most people in the region on the line. Then talk about the price, ask the seller to exchange methods, etc., dishes that can organize their own information, please teach some experienced masters, please a grocery chef is best. Some hot pot base suppliers can also provide some guidance (the cost may be another calculation, but it is the accumulation of experience, you can go to fight.) You have to learn the whole hot pot process yourself. The cost of this method is relatively not very high, the flavor can be stable (of course, to find the strength of the supplier, do not look for those speculative. Maybe one day you can not contact on the silly)
Best to open before the trial operation for a period of time, found that the problem in a timely manner to find ways to solve.
2. Lot problem, certainly looking for high-traffic places ah (customer groups), now is not not afraid of the age of the deep alley. To make a very simple analogy, a place with a monthly rent of 8,000, 100 people pass by every day, if our conversion rate is 10%, that is, 10 customers a day to come in to consume, assuming that each person consumes 100 yuan, that is, the daily flow of 1,000 yuan, the net profit of 20%, a day of profit of 200 yuan. Monthly profit of 6,000 yuan (fucking loss of money, just assuming that everyone understands the meaning of this on the line). Another place 10000 monthly rent. Traffic is 1,000 people passing through, assuming that our conversion rate is also 10%, then there are 100 people come in to consume, each person consumes 100 yuan, that day is 10,000 yuan, net profit at 10% (assuming that more artificial please a few, the cost is higher) calculated that the profit is 1,000 yuan. Monthly profit is 30,000 yuan (this is not a loss) is now the era of traffic is king. Don't worry about how much money the first few months of rent saves you. To look back, the flavor is good, the service to keep up, good word of mouth do not worry about no customers into the door. Another point is that, the door or the surrounding area to facilitate parking, or customers have no way to park only to go. There is no long time around the old hot pot restaurant (competitors), no large liquor store next door (liquor profits are also the main catering). This is the site selection, the general meaning should understand the oh?
3. Decoration. Hot pot restaurant decoration is the most important wiring, you want to engage in open fire or electric pot? Open fire, if you buy a table, remember to buy the kind of fire prevention, or you have to suffer. Then do a good job in the fire, escape instructions and channels, etc. ... With electricity, remember to choose some good induction cooker, wiring must be grounded, the best dark line, draw a good drawing in advance, do not come back to pull the wires, it is very dangerous. Then do a good job of ventilation and exhaust. It is best to install a transformer to stabilize the voltage, or so many high-power appliances can not bring embarrassing ... There are other trivial things are too lazy to write, hot pot to do these planning and layout is almost! Decorated with some of the characteristics on the line. Do not follow the crowd, there may be because there are special features also fire it! Can refer to some of the Chongqing hot pot store style! Duo Niang big picture ... anyway, in a few years still have to redecorate (because the oil smoke smoked a few years black greasy a bit disgusting, must be redecorated, but also can not cut corners ...)
4. staffing, kitchen: 1-2 dishes, 2-3 dunzi, a master (simmering soup to the pot, and so on), brush the plate! Counting not? Then 3-4 people will be enough. Waiter: 200 square feet. I do not know what your table, even if 20 tables. On average, if each person looks after 4 tables, there will be about 5 waiters. Cashier 1 person. Receptionist 1 person (or don't). Total **** more than 10 people it ... specific depends on your own arrangements and plans!
Well, that's probably all that comes to mind...hope it helps!
(--Baumi Tim Pepper Hot Pot. Hope that helps)