Industry · Restaurant
Restaurant Row
How a restaurant really runs: thin margins, Friday rushes, suppliers and permits.
Make it your business
The first lesson asks which kind you'd run, and every lesson after that uses your numbers, saved in your owner's notebook on this device.
- Burger counter
- Neighborhood bistro
- Coffee-and-brunch café
The lessons
- Lesson 1 · 15 minOpen now
You sell a $15 burger. How much do you keep?
Big ideas: How a business makes money, Margins: where each dollar goes, Fixed vs. variable costs, Pricing, Operations and suppliers
Start here - Lesson 2 · 14 minOpen now
Hiring your first crew
Big ideas: People, Fixed vs. variable costs, Rules
Open the lesson - Lesson 3 · 14 minOpen now
Permits before you open
Big ideas: Rules
Open the lesson - Lesson 4 · 14 minOpen now
Reading your monthly numbers
Big ideas: Reading the numbers, Fixed vs. variable costs
Open the lesson
Big ideas you'll meet here
The Foundations concepts this neighborhood teaches or will teach.