FAST FOOD BUSINESS

Fast Food Restaurant: This is the sale of ready-to-eat food. You don’t need a big building to start. You can start with a small shop or a space and grow the business when your customer base increases. 
You can combine it with a catering job whereby you help to cook food for both big and small events such as Weddings, Birthdays, Seminars, Burial ceremony etc.

HOW TO START FAST FOOD RESTAURANT/CATERING SERVICES
Prepare Your Business Plan: A business plan is like a to-do-list, where you have all the steps you want to take in starting your business written down. A business helps to ensure the success of any business. This will contain a detailed feasibility study of the fast food business. 
Likely questions you need to ask yourself before you start? 
Where will the Location Of the fast food be? The total cost I need to start the business? What class of people I’m I expecting? low, medium or high income earners? Types of food to be prepared? And many other questions.



Register Your Business Name: You can register as a business enterprise or as a limited liability company with the corporate affairs commission (CAC). It is also important that you register with the association of fast food and confectioners of Nigeria (AFFCON). 

Location
The location of your business is a very important factor. This should be somewhere open, easily accessible and spacious. You must also make the location accommodating and comfortable for your customers. 

Get Your Menu Ready
Will you be making continental dishes, local dishes, pastries and confectioneries? You can also combine dishes.  

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Most effective strategies include of advertisement is social media such as as instagram, facebook, whatsapp, twitter etc. You can also make use of flyers, posters to create awareness.

Employ Good Chefs and Staff

A good chef makes a great restaurant. Therefore, before employing a chef, make sure that he is a great one and that he or she has had training in the preparation of different types of food.
You may also need to employ the service of attendants depending on the style of service you have chosen.



Delivery Service

You don’t have to wait until customers come to your outlet to purchase food, you can as well take it to them. This works well for corporate entities such as bankers etc. all your customers need to do is make their order online and you can take the food to them wherever they are.
Mobile Outlet
This is where you have your foods in a van that bears your brand name, going from one place to the other. It will help customers buy your foods anywhere they find your mobile outlet without necessarily having to come to where your business is located.


Be Innovative to Survive
You need to be innovative in your services in the fast food business in Nigeria to survive. Think of ways to better the services in the fast food industry. You can do promo during festive periods such as Christmas, Id-Fitri, Valentine etc.