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Returns (Hindi) 9pm; Punyalan Punyalan (Malayalam) 3:45pm; Telephone: 44466405 Landmark Cinema (2: Olaf And (Malayalam) 11:30pm. Punyalan (Malayalam) 6:30pm; Fax: 44350474 Coco (2D) 3pm; Olaf And Coco (2D) Royal Plaza Cinema Palace (3): Punyalan (Malayalam) 9:15pm; 5:30pm; Jungle (2D) 7:30pm; Brad’s Punyalan (Malayalam) 2:30pm; Punyalan (Malayalam) 12am. Thursday, December 7, 2017 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY Opening own restaurant is no walk in the park goes on the menu or overseeing start business from home. There continue to do so. No one saw the kitchen or even cooking are plenty of online portals that instant fame. But that shouldn’t themselves. If you love food and help home chefs cook and sell stop you from dreaming and that’s the crux of why you want their food commercially. Home turning your dream to reality. to open a restaurant, you need bakery is another option. What a wake-up call before it’s too you do here is, build your brand You’re fi nally going to make late. It is of course important to and test the waters. If it works lots of money! be passionate about what you and your food’s a hit, think about No. Just, no. In fact, for at least want to do, but at the end of the a full blown restaurant or a cafe 3 to 5 years you’re going to go the day, it still is a business. If you eventually. other way and lose money. From don’t want to or can’t deal with repaying bank loans and investors the business side of things, you You’re going to be a hotshot to maintaining the restaurant, either have to learn to do it or just restaurateur! you’re going to need a lot of let the idea go. Maybe, maybe not. It has money. Pretty much every penny In this article, we’ll share been a fantastic few years for you make in the first few years (or bust) a few myths that are restaurateurs. No longer are they is spent on the business. The associated with opening a just the owners and working first few years you’re nurturing restaurant. It isn’t to discourage behind the scenes; nowadays, a it and getting it to stand on its anyone from attempting but more successful restaurant owner is own. These are the years you are of a dose of reality. Certain frills recognised and talked about too. your best and most passionate. need to be trimmed before you Take, for example, Zorawal Kalra But it is also a time when you enter the business of restaurants. or Manu Chandra. There are would want to give up because other star chefs like Kunal Kapur you realise it’s not a piece of You love cooking so you’re and Ritu Dalmia. So many young cake, so to speak. The ones who going to do what you love! chefs and businesspeople look up stuck it out are the successful Not really. If you love cooking, to them. It’s great to do so. But to restaurateurs you see today. You opening a restaurant is not think that you’re going to open can ask any restaurant owner necessarily the goal. Having a restaurant and be instantly about making money and they’ll unbridled love for food and validated and recognised is tell you to forget about money for cooking is a great start to get into another thing. Becoming a star the first few years if you want to wning a restaurant the idea of turning that love into the industry. But that’s only the or famous shouldn’t be your goal, own a restaurant. It’s all about sure is a matter of something that would make you tip of the iceberg. There’s a whole becoming a good restaurateur working hard and building the pride.