A “friend” is seriously thinking of a side hustle. However, he is not willing to quit his daily hustle to run the side hustle. Considering that restaurant chains run efficiently and make profit even in the absence of their owners e.g I do not expect to find the owner of Sanford at the till or serving, so he thinks that employing a manager could work. He can then check in two hours a day to do the accounting, and inspect the premises etc. The manager can take care of daily operations like supervision and collecting the cash at the till. Apart from CCTV and POS software, what other controls can he put to minimize leakages?
We need healthy food or else
healthy food mtanunua? Will you afford?
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Fast food restaurant is an ordinary kenchik in town. Most its customers are pesants
The only thing I care about is the money. Most Equity bank customers are peasants…and their cash is just as brown as Uhurus. If you dont believe me, ask JM
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You’re starting to start like Maina Kagayni. Why don’t you leave your friend to sort out himself? Meffi
If you want to run a business like this , commit yourself 100%. Ama ni kukulwa tu to the ground. 2 hours a day won’t do it.
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Hizi vitu huwa in demand sana, people like eating fried food. Pengine alemewe tu na managemnt but if he has the capital and a nice location, he’ll be making serious money within three months of opening. I see fast food joints springing up all over town and they’re always packed.
mwenye highlands restuarant must be laughing all the way to the bank
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Billy the kid here understands zilch about this business…nyamaza Mzee Mjinga
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Stopped going there when they started asking us to pay first I don’t know now how It is running
That’s the main problem if he is not ready to quit his main hustle why bother then? why sink hundreds of thousands (Kitchen equipment is not cheap assuming he wants to open a large fast food joint like Sanford) if he is not going to commit to it full time? You cannot run a retail business part time unless you have a ‘trusted’ person to help run like a wife, brother etc…
Don’t be fooled by the numbers those fast food joint seem to have numbers but it takes years to build a solid clientele base, a trust with suppliers , banks etc and any one whose been in business especially retail will tell you numbers don’t necessarily translate to more profits
Wish you knew how long he has been at it. If you don’t have the time, forget retail business.
There are things Sonford/nevada/altona guy is doing differently. Most fast food joints don’t last long. Just check OLX for restaurant for sale. Being in it full time will increase his chances of success.
Most of the time it’s the employees who will do you in. If you aren’t conversant with how the restaurant system works it’s better to invest in another business. The loopholes for theft are just too many and rest assured the employees will always be a step ahead in beating any systems you put in place.
You are assuming that the guy doesn’t have a manager in place. How do people with restaurant chains run them? They have managers for every branch, whose sole task is oversight and operations. The manager is answerable to the owner and these restaurants still make profits. Having a manager answerable to you, and having time 2 hours or more per day at the restaurant, would seal the major loopholes, dont you think??
it still gets full almost all lunchtimes even as they ask you to pay first.
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but now his consistency and commitment is paying off
What is the problem with paying first? Unless you are the type of people who duck before paying the bill, I dont see the difference. The restaurant probably realized that there were customers that had your bad habits hence the move
And that’s where many go wrong.
Assuming like you are doing that theft is only done by lower level employees.
Usually the theft chain in a restaurant runs all the way from the top to the bottom, each tier of employees having their own system to rip you off.
Management usually steals with chefs and accountants in cahoots with suppliers.
You seem totally unaware of the Kenyan mindset of stealing wherever one is employed.
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