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.