Open My Restaurant

OPEN MY RESTAURANT — $97 USD

Short description: A complete planning guide for opening a restaurant — kitchen design, health approvals, front-of-house flow and full launch readiness. The most complex venue type, approached in the right order. Built from 35 years of experience.

Full description:

Restaurants are the most complex physical venue to open well. Commercial kitchen design, health department approvals, front-of-house flow, staffing systems and launch readiness all need to come together in the right sequence — and the wrong order creates rework that's expensive and time-consuming.

This guide maps every decision from site assessment through kitchen specification, approvals, fitout and launch so nothing falls through the gaps.

What's covered:

1. Concept, customer and positioning — what the restaurant must produce and at what volume, every service
2. Site selection and venue suitability — grease trap, gas capacity, three-phase power and DA pathway
3. Kitchen design and specification — layout, equipment, workflow, compliance and health requirements
4. Health and food safety approvals — council and authority pathways, inspection preparation and timelines
5. Front-of-house design and service flow — seating, acoustics, lighting, reservations and table management
6. Services and infrastructure — the technical requirements most restaurant projects underestimate
7. Fitout, contractor and project management — managing a complex multi-trade build to standard
8. Staffing, systems and launch — brigade structure, FOH team, POS, soft opening and the first 90 days

Who it's for: Chefs opening their first restaurant, hospitality operators making the move from managing to owning, and investors backing a restaurant concept. If you know food and service but need the business, design and approval framework that surrounds a restaurant opening, this is it.

Built from 35 years of experience designing and opening restaurant environments across formats and categories.

$97 USD. Instant download.

Add the Launch Bonus Pack — Concept to Sales Programme, Build My Brand Playbook, and How to Choose and Brief a Designer — for $147 total at checkout.