Greetings from the Middle East, Dubai-UAE,
Lebanese cousin is a popular cousin and canbe found in a lot of western cities, more info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_cuisine , also from what little research I have done I believe few restaurant are available in Singapore itself, can anyone give me their opinion if they have tried it?
The Lebanese Saj is a type of flat bread used to make sandwiches; recently it has modernized the Lebanese cousin by introducing fast food concept into it, changing some of the popular dishes into fast food sandwiches and it has proved very popular with the younger generations in the Middle East and has started to catch on in different countries.
Now I would like to open in SG since it has less competition and this gives me more reason to visit as its one of my favorite countries to spend vacation at.
Now I have two choices,
A) Open a restaurant in SG, preferably somewhere close to business district with lots of companies who usualy like to order takeaways, then approach an investment companie to help me expand the business and open franchises over seas in eastern Asia.
B) Directly approach an investment company or investors with experience in the F&B industry.
Both options are viable but option B will be less time consuming for me, since I wouldn’t need to handle all the paper work, i rember reading the history of Pastamania http://www.pastamania.com/about.php?show=3 , this is my goal.
The plan is to start somewhere around December 2011 maybe visit some food exhibitions and show case the products and have something open within the first quarter of 2012.
Can any one provide some advise?
What exhibitions are best approached, dates, procedures to apply?
What F&B investment companies to approach
Government procedures.
Companies that can do market research, promotions.
Any one interested in the F&B industries or knows someone who is, glad to make new friendships.
General idea of startup cost, rents, insurances etc.
Agents who can answer general inquiries and can connect me in the F&B industries.
I myself have opened two business (gaming network café and Catering restaurant) in my home country and now want to mess around outside.
Thanks for reading, PM or comment, looking forward for advises.
Any one knows any other forums i can check out?