How to open your cafe in Ukraine

When the task is to open a cafe in Ukraine, it makes sense to get acquainted with the requirements for public catering enterprises. If their list does not cool your fervor, go to the search for a room. As in large Russian cities, the situation with the presence of liquid real estate does not matter here. Therefore, the preparation of a business plan and concept development are transferred to the second and third stage. In other words, they start to work after it becomes clear what kind of premises you are renting.

You will need

• - premises;

• - business plan;

• - concept;

• - plan project;

• - equipment;

• - furniture;

• - permits;

• - staff.

Instruction manual

1

Find a room that will satisfy your needs, as well as have the technical ability to host a cafe. Well, if the previous owners also used it for catering. In this case, you do not have to make significant changes to the plan project. On the other hand, this option has its own minus. In particular, no matter what institution you open, it will be strongly associated with local residents, not entirely successful (it would be successful - it would continue to work in this room).

2

Order a project plan. The way ventilation shafts, water pipes and numerous wires will go through can greatly simplify (or complicate) the further arrangement of equipment. Be sure to consider this aspect: if the future cafe is located in a residential building, you need a very high-quality soundproofing system. Without it, neighbors from the upper floors torture you (and you, most likely, torture them). By the way, they can also make a “protest note” regarding ventilation exits located in the courtyard.

3

Purchase and arrange furniture and equipment. It is especially important to properly complete the production. Provide thermal, refrigeration, electro-mechanical equipment. Think about whether you have the opportunity to place a coffee maker and beer brewer in the hall. If there is no place, you will have to find it at the factory. A separate topic that many people forget is the dishwasher. At the request of regulatory authorities, it should be in a separate room. No matter what size cafe you have, if you plan a full-cycle kitchen, you will have to “give” at least 50-75 sq.m. for production and auxiliary premises.

4

Invite a reviewer. For obvious reasons, their verification can take from 2 weeks to a month, so at the same time engage in personnel search, menu development and preparation of service standards. There are many good catering establishments in Ukraine, and if you do everything right, your cafe will take its rightful place among them.