HOW TO OPEN A RESTAURANT IN VIETNAM

With 48% of Vietnamese adult eating out at least once a week, 16% eating out once a day or more, 56% have breakfast outside. The restaurant industry continues to prosper. This was a research of Nielsen year 2018. While foods ervice trends come and go, it’s certain that many Vietnamese will continue to enjoy meals prepared outside of the home. Starting a restaurant takes a lot of work, but with expert advice, you can start a successful restaurant business.

Like any business, opening a restaurant requires many thing to do. But the procedure is a more manageable feat when broken down. If you're curious about how to open a restaurant in Vietnam, we've created an 10-step guide to navigate you through the process.

1. Choose a Restaurant Concept and Brand

When starting a restaurant, it's very important to have a strong concept and brand. Your restaurant concept includes the service style of your restaurant, the food you serve, and the ambiance of your restaurant.

Based on your brand and concept, your dining room should emanate a specific atmosphere and reveal who you are. This creates a memorable and meaningful experience for people who will want to come back. The Vietnamese are interested in unique – strange things, Choosing a unique and functional concept that targets a certain demographic is among the most important factors in creating your concept and brand. For example, At this point, Japanese restaurants at Vietnam are working so well and they are the most favorite restaurant at Vietnam so now.

You should focus to your strong points, that mean if you like a concept and want to develop it, you have to master it and have strong understanding so it will be easy to success

2. Form Your Menu Items

Before opening the restaurant in Vietnam, you'll want to create some basic food items that your menu will feature. Deciding what will be on your menu is important when figuring out the equipment you need, the staff you will hire, and the crowd you hope to draw. Plesae remember, for Vietnamese, they will be curious in the first time to check the dish, but want to keep them, the dish have to be real extractive and a litle proper to their taste.

3. Obtain Funding

Foreseen the total startup costs you will need to get your restaurant started and the amount needed to keep your restaurant functioning on a day-to-day basis. You should then create a budget and predict the next year to know how much you will need to stay in business.

After this, assess how much money you have available to use as startup funding, and determine how much more you will need. Remember to include the costs of any licenses and local fee you need. Consider applying for restaurant loans to obtain funding to cover your restaurant’s costs.

4. Choose a Location and Lease a Commercial Space

When choosing a location for your new restaurant, the following features are among the most important:

Visibility and accessibility. Select a spot that can be seen by those driving or walking by. You should also look for an area that gets plenty of passersby on foot, bike or in cars. In addition, consider if there is parking and ease of access by foot, bike or car. This is matched with almost street of Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi where the people “never sleep”.

Out-door restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City

Labor costs and minimum wage. It’s important to ensure that the labor costs of an area don’t cut into your profits. But you don’t worry so much about this, you can be easy to find out the good staffs with salary only USD 300/month at cities in Vietnam

5. Permits and Licenses

To open a new restaurant, you'll need to obtain several local permits and licenses. The most important are certificate of free sale and the Foods safety license. You have a few days to join the class and pass the exam to get the license. At this point, you can find a local instructor to help you like us with absolutely free.

Certificate of Foods safety condition

6. Source Equipment and Food Suppliers

A constant, reliable source of equipment and ingredients at reasonable prices in domestic must be established and maintained to ensure restaurant success. A wholesale restaurant supplier, like us, can help you find many of your needs in one place. We specialize in high-quality restaurant equipment and have a full time customer service team who are experts on our products.

7. Design a Restaurant Layout

When starting a restaurant, you'll want to put careful thought into how you can organize your whole layout to meet the goals set forth in your menu and theme. Your primary goal should be to create a systematic flow from front-of-house to back, from the receiving hostess all the way back to the kitchen. Once your basic layout is established, you can design and decorate your dining room.

One point you should pay attention, Vietnamse is interesting in seating outside, near the tree or natural condition so if you have an area like this then it's an advantage.

8. Hire the proper Staff: You and remain local Vietnamese staffs will be one team.

One major-basic step of opening a restaurant is hiring staff to carry out the operation of your restaurant every day. Consider all roles that need to be filled at your particular restaurant before hiring Vietnamese staff. This may include human resources management and supervisors, food and beverage purchasing, receiving and storing products, food preparation, foodservice, food cleaning and dishwashing, marketing and sales, public relations, accounting and auditing, and bar services.

Depend on your business scale, the quantity of staff is planned properly. In case, your restaurant is small, one staff should do more than 1 task. Here below are basic position we should set up:

Executive chef: USD 1200/month

General manager: May be you or other with USD 1500/month

Sous chef: USD 350/month

Prep cooks: USD 280/month

Servers: USD 280/month

Bartenders: USD 500/month

Food runners and bussers, Dishwasher: USD 250/month

9. Advertise Your Restaurant

Advertising is critical for various reasons. First and foremost, prospective customers should be able to find basic information about your restaurant. Secondly, they should feel enthused to try out your new eatery. Below are some tips to create excitement around your restaurant:

Use social media, Create Facebook, Twitter, and Zalo accounts to share news, photos, and tidbits about your restaurant. The photos and descriptions should communicate your brand. Consider including images of food or behind-the-scene processes to draw in potential guests. Make sure to use high-quality photos.

Build an attractive website. Your site should be easy to navigate, and the design should represent your brand. Include basic information about your restaurant, including your address, phone number, hours, and menu. Writing articles about your restaurant, about which can help customers, tip related to what you have done in your restaurant, all that thing will push your website to the top Google which can affect to the searching quantity and increasing of traffic direct to your website. The price to build a goods website in Vietnam is about USD 200 and hosting fee yearly about USD 50.

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