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Watching a season of Iron Chef does not make one a successful restaurant owner. Owning a restaurant is hard work, yet many people make the decision to open their own restaurants with their hearts instead of their heads. They fall in love with the idea of being their own boss and serving creative dishes to happy paying customers. For many, the reality is very different.

A restaurant usually requires the owner to work six to seven days a week, often starting early and finishing late. There are suppliers to deal with, casual staff to manage, fickle customers to keep happy, ever changing laws and regulations to keep across, and the day to day operational requirements of keeping the lights on.

Maintaining profit margins is always a battle, and any changes to the economic condition of the area you operate in, as well as any new competitors, can have a big impact on your bottom line.

It’s therefore critical that you do your homework and know exactly what you are getting into before you commit to buying or setting up your own new restaurant. One way to do this is to prepare a business plan with a professional planner. The process of preparing your business plan will help you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your business, and define the strategies and tactics you will employ to meet your profit expectations. The process will also help you research the industry, understand success factors and trends, and identify your direct competition.

As part of your restaurant business plan, you should also undertake a minimum two year cash flow forecast, to identify any times through the year when your ability to service your debt may come under pressure. That way, you can prepare budgeting strategies now to keep your business liquid through traditionally slower parts of the year.

Lots of people seem to think that a restaurant business plan is a complicated document that they need to spend literally months working on, honing and perfecting in order to “do it right” but that’s not the case at all.

Restaurants have been around forever- literally thousands of years. And lenders and investors know how restaurants work- they probably ate in one in the last 24 hours. So you don’t have to spend a lot of time explaining that a restaurant is a business that makes money by selling food to customers (you won’t believe how often I see people doing that!) or anything else so silly.

All you need is to complete the following restaurant business plan outline, with one page or so per section:

1. Title Page- contact info

2. Executive summary- what, where, who, how much you need

3. Business Operations- location, hours, business form, owners, advisers, vendors

4. Concept- your menu and ambiance

5. Market- demographics of your area and expected customer profiles

6. Competition- who are you up against

7. Marketing- how will you find and attract customers to your location

8. Management- who are you, your experience

9. Financials- how much you need, what you will spend it on, your estimates of sales, expenses and profits for the first three years

10. Appendices- anything else- a website, menu, lease, resumes, etc. that support your claims

That’s it. You don’t need to go 20, 30 or more p

ages into this. You don’t need to spend months writing it.

These days the all-natural living phenomenon has become more popular than ever and is becoming much more mainstream all the time. The times when folks who use healthy products were thought to be hippies or weirdos are finally over. That’s something we can all be grateful for.

Nowadays a lot more people are understanding that all sorts of natural products are much better than the things you find on most store shelves. Any local grocery store offers fruits, nuts and vegetables for sale, and your own grandmother would undoubtedly tell you to use the same stuff on your body. And there are a lot of excellent reasons for that.

A lot more well-being professionals and skin specialists everywhere are recommending we change to organic products. This is because chemical based skin care products can cause various skin problems and they are simply not nearly as health for you.

Here are just a handful of the advantages of choosing pure beauty products:

* Youthful Looking Skin – Pure products can generally minimize wrinkles and age spots better than chemical products that may do more damage than good to your skin when used for a long time. Pure beauty products can perform very well at fighting the signs of maturing therefore you end up with much younger looking skin even as you get more aged.

* No Preservatives – Pure products that contain nothing but genuine substances such as organic fruit extracts and grains do not use any nasty chemical preservatives that could be absorbed into your skin. They’re cleaner and safer to use on your skin.

Do you know what? I love pumpkin spice, butter toffee, mocha mint and all the other varieties of coffee flavors. I think for me, it is just this time of year. Living here in upstate, New York and those of you who believe upstate is the North end of New York City, would be wrong. Upstate, is actually anything above New York City.

We are close to Syracuse, home of the fighting Orange and this time of year means football, cooler temperatures and all the leaves on the trees changing to beautiful orange, red, yellow, and green colors, and watching the rolling hillside explode with vibrant colors.

It is also the time of year I start craving everything fall; like football, hunting and my delicious flavored coffees, teas, cocoa beverages and of course great food! There is just something great about the full flavor of a great cup of pumpkin spice coffee when you are standing out on the porch watching the turkeys or the whitetail deer running across the hillside, or standing down at the barn looking over Oneida Lake (it sits down in the bottom of the Mohawk valley), nestled in amongst the colors of fall with the mist rising off the water and into the blue skies.

So, to make this time of year more fun, easier, and be able to indulge my hot beverage habit, I started looking into the new trend of single serve home brewing systems, and found that there are a lot out there. I have been so set in my ways of going out and buying a one pound bag of coffee, getting it in a few different flavors, and either mixing a couple, or having one kind at a time, that I never really thought there could be a better way.