Open a restaurant

Do you have the right to become a merchant?

You must to be of age and not to have been convicted in court for certain offenses.

How to anticipate difficulties?

• Get ready for your future job :
  
  • By performing a immersion course in the catering sector
  • By following a entrepreneurship education
  • Learn about management and accounting

These courses are optional but highly recommended.

• Plan for difficulties
  
  • Make a financial reserve to deal with unforeseen events
  • Get ready for steady rate of work : weekend and evening, overtime

Who can help you?

Before you get started, we offer tips and tools to prepare you entrepreneurship.

You can also request different accompanying solutions.

Get closer to the CCI: titleContent from your region.

Each KIC offers a training (3-5 days) to succeed your company creation.

KICs also offer personalized follow-up to your project.

It's number one^era step.

You must decide according to the following parameters:

• Your budget (on upright of your investment)
• Your cravings
• Your skills
• Your experience in the trade ofcontractor
• Your experience in catering

A very varied choice of restaurants

The restaurants are very varied in nature.

Duty-free restaurant?

The status of franchisee minimizes the risk of failure.

If you don't have any experience in entrepreneurship or catering, this is an interesting choice.

However, there are constraints: if the restaurant's turnover falls, your remuneration will drop sharply.

The geographical location of your restaurant is essential to its success.

Consider the following criteria

Consider the following:

• Immediate business environment: the more your premises surrounded by other shops, the more potential customers there are
• Nature of the surrounding shops: a street of "food" shops will be less frequented in the afternoon
• Access to your premises: sidewalk width, proximity to parking spaces, direction of traffic, pedestrian street, etc.
• Visibility: are there obstacles (urban furniture) in front of the premises, the showcase is it good? visible from the sidewalk?
• Background location: check with nearby businesses

Analysis of territory and competition

You must to analyze the territory economic, social, cultural, etc.

Insee: economic portrait of a territory

You have to do the list of your competitors in the territory and work on needs of your future customers.

List your competitors

Working on the needs of your future clientele: Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Canevas method:

At this point, you are in a position to address the mandatory phase which consists in carrying out your market study and building your business plan.

The banks and financial partners will require access to these documents. They need it to accept or not to lend you money and make you confidence.

The business plan should include a summary of your market research.

So you have to start the 2 at the same time.

The business plan evolves as your project matures.

It then enables the management of First 3 years of your business.

We'll get you explains everything in our pages dedicated tomarket study and the business plan.

You must choose a legal status for your company.

It exists 3 great choices :

• Business Status
  
  • Most common forms:
    
    • If you are more than one creator: SARL: titleContent, LOCK: titleContent
    • If you are alone: SASU: titleContent,EURL: titleContent

• Status of individual business l'Equip (EI)
• Status of the auto(micro) entrepreneur (this status is part of theIS: titleContent, but it is very different)

The majority of restaurants including thecompany is family friendly take the status of the SARL.

Who can help you?

To choose your status, ask the CCI for your region.

Definition

The goodwill includes everything that is necessary for your business :

• Right to lease salesman
• Trade name, brand, brand, patent
• Material, equipment
• Supplier Contracts
• Customer, reputation, turnover
• Current employment contracts of employees

Transfer of goodwill

For obtain restaurant space, you must buy the goodwill of an existing restaurant.

That's the method most common to operate a restaurant.

The administrative documents you fill out also refer to a transfer from a restaurant or a transfer of goodwill.

Destination of the goodwill

Your business premises must have for vocation, also called destination, ofhost a restaurant.

This destination is registered in the goodwill and in the commercial lease.

Purchasing formalities

The 2 formalities main for buy a business are:

• Advertising transfer and purchase.
  You must publish the assignment in a legal listing support within 15 days of purchase.
  Then you must notify your purchase on commercial court registry within 3 days of publication. The clerk will then publish a notice in a Bodacc: titleContent.
• Recording of the bill of sale with the office of the registration of the company Tax Service (SIE).
  You have to pay transfer duty.

A template for the sale of goodwill is available:

Business Transfer Model

We will explain in detail the steps involved in buying goodwill when a company takes over.

Registration at RNE: titleContent and the SCR: titleContent

You must register your restaurant, that is declare its existence and your activityon the website of the company Formalities Office.

Company Formalities Window

Following this declaration, your restaurant is registered and registered on the RNE: titleContent and the SCR: titleContent.

This listing proves its legal existence.

You will then receive a unique identification number (Siren), a Siret and one proof of registration.

We'll explain in detail the registration formality in our dedicated page.

Declaration of your activity in town hall

You must declare your activity and the identity of your restaurant to the town hall where it is located.

This declaration must be made 15 days minimum before opening of your restaurant.

This declaration shall be made in filling out the form next:

Declaration of a restaurant or a bar of drinks to be consumed on the spot or to take away

You are a cook and you want create your own restaurant.

You want to propose a kitchen homemade of high quality.

You want to highlight your cook's skill.

For this, you can get the title of master restorer.

What criteria do you need to meet?

You must have a diploma or professional qualification. This diploma or qualification proves your expertise.

You must complete a more than 30 criteria.

How to obtain the title of master restorer?

It is the state that gives the title of master-restaurateur.

One audit control allows you to receive or not receive this title.

The audit consists of several checkpoints.

You you can view the audit checkpoint grid.

If the audit is positive, you must make a application dossier.

Your folder must contain supporting documents following:

• Copy of your identity card
• Address and trade name of your restaurant (copy of the commercial lease)
• Kbis Extract
• Proof of your diploma or professional qualification
• Audit Report

Which bodies can carry out the audit?

It exists 3 organizations certifying officers empowered to carry out theauditing master-restorer.

You can inquire directly with them and request a quote:

• Afnor
• Certipaq
• Bureau Veritas certification

The organization will report back to you following the audit.

You must contact this audit report to your application.

Where to submit your application?

You need to take out insurance for your business restaurant owner.

Her name is professional civil liability.

You should ask your regular insurer.

Depending on the characteristics of your restaurant, you can subscribe to different types of insurance.

She's giving you guard, you and your customers.

This is protection against accidents:

• materials (stocks of goods, IT, etc.),
• intangible (operating loss),
• and personal injuries (accident, death).

We'll explain in detail how to insure your company.

In your restaurant, you will certainly sell alcoholic drinks.

To do this, you must to obtain the right to sell alcohol.

This right is obtained via a business license, also known as an operating license.

You have to make a compulsory training 2½ days (20 hours) to obtain this license.

If your restaurant is open between 10pm and 8am, you must comply with specific rules for the sale of alcohol at night, on the spot or to take away.

If you wish to settle a terrace on the public space or if your restaurant already has an outdoor terrace, you are obliged to make a demand called AOT: titleContent.

This is a application for authorization to occupy the sidewalk or a public place.

This authorization shall not be transmitted in the purchase of the goodwill.

What VAT for what product?

You have to pay VAT on food and alcoholic beverages.

Different rates apply according to different criteria.

We'll explain in detail these rates in our VAT page for restaurant owners.

What other taxes?

You must paying a property tax, called the CFE.

Depending on your sales, you must also paying property tax called CVAE.

If you have one or more employees, you must pay the contribution to vocational training (MFF).

If you own one or more advertising signs in the public space, you must inquire about the possible payment of the local tax on outdoor advertising (LPE). It depends on your municipality.

Then contact the town hall the place where your advertising brand is located.

Report your work to taxes

If you are doing work in your business premises, you must report the changes to the tax administration.

Indeed, the rental value of the commercial lease evolves according to your work.

Declaration of premises for commercial or professional use

Fee for broadcasting music

You will certainly play music in your restaurant.

You must make a declaration to Sacem and pay an annual fee.

Sacem: applications for permission to broadcast music

The practice of tip is common. As an employer, you must respect certain management rules (contributions to the Urssaf) and repayment to your staff.

Hygiene

You must respect the hygiene rules in your restaurant.

These rules cover the manufacture of food, personnel, equipment and equipment, the storage of your goods and water.

At least 1 person in your restaurant must have followed the hygiene training, obligatory.

This training is called the HACCP.

It lasts about 14 hours.

You can consult the official guide hygiene practices in the restaurant.

Consult a guide of good hygiene practices (GBPH) in food service and food businesses

Security

Your restaurant belongs to a category of establishments called ERP : institutions receiving from the public.

You must know which standards apply to this type of establishment.

Accessibility

You must settle accessibility features that enable persons with disabilities of circulate with the most great autonomy possible.

We'll explain in detail what are those standards?.

Compliance work

You may have to do some work to bring your restaurant into compliance.

Before to begin this work, you must ask your city hall for permission.

Prohibitions: alcohol, tobacco

You must enforce 2 prohibitions :

• Prohibition on selling alcohol to a young person under 18 (minor)
• No smoking (inside the restaurant, for all customers)

You are obliged to put up very visible posters about these 2 bans.

Inform your customers

You must display information about the following:

• Products (name of wine, origin of all meat, homemade logo, etc.)
• Services (mention of the service included or not on the menu, vouchers accepted, etc.)
• Price

Find the detail of these displays.

You do not have to accept vouchers or restaurant vouchers.

If you accept them, you can ask to be reimbursed.

To get a refund on your vouchers, you must declare you to the National Commission of Restaurant Titles (CNTR). The CNTR will then request the opening of your account at the Central Securities Settlement Center (CRT), which will refund you.

Your storefront must conspicuously inform customers that you are accepting them.

There are several situations that can lead you to settle signs in the public space.

These can be instructions, signage to drive customers to your establishment.

If you organize cultural or musical events in your restaurant, you will surely advertise them.

In any case, you will to seek authorization.

Bright sign

If your sign is bright, you must also know the night lighting regulations.

The formalities are the same as opening a restaurant. In particular:

• Mandatory training
• License (operating permit)
• AOT
• Registration to the NNE and the SCN

You will need to acquire a supplementary liquor license if you do not already have it and if you wish.

You will need to report this new activity to the DDPP: titleContent from your department.

Renew your operating license

Your license is valid 10 years.

Before this time, you will need to redo the mandatory training to renew your operating license.

If you don't, you lose your license restaurant.