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Q: Tips to open a pakistani resturant in china.
Hello and salam everyone. I wish all of you to have a good day. I want to invest some of my money here in china and I really want to open a Pakistani resturant. I live in inner mangolia and I'm having q visa and my wife is Chinese. If any one knows about the procedure I'll really appreciate. Another I wanna invest around 200k is it enoght for a normal resturant? Looking forward for your suggestions.
9 years 20 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
I don't know a lot about the restaurant business but 200k sounds a little on the low side to me.
Think about ...
-the 6 - 12 months rent you'd need to pay up front. That could be expensive depending on size and location
-Renovations
-Various fees, licenses, permits you'd need ( hong bao)
-money to pay expenses until the restaurant is turning a profit
-chairs, tables, kitchen stuff, cutlery etc
it all adds up and I'm sure there would be a lot of unforeseen expenses.
bill8899:
Add the cost of ... hmmmm ... call it insurance payments to various people. You need those permits, don't you?
Don't spend too much for decor cuz someone will open up a copy cat next door or around the corner.
I don't know much about Pakistani cuisine, is it a mix of Middle Eastern and Indian cuisines? In Guangzhou there are many profitable Indian and Muslim restaurants thanks to the massive populations from Arab countries and Africa who usually like such cuisines.
come back with 2 million if you want a "restaurant" and not a snack shop.
I live in a crappy shit area with only one real street and the rent for that street is already 150k upfront for the whole year - stinky small 50m2 room without furniture.
keep in mind the chinese take horrendous rents for shops and restaurant in the opposite to normal housing
samad_khan772:
Dom87. What you i'm totally agreed to the statement. But fortunately, i don't need to worry regarding place as I'm having my own property.
Where will you get elephants to cook? Chinese will love that,,, curried elephant on a stick and just think of the amazing bones that come in dishes. I would like to try stuffed elephant trunk.
samad_khan772:
Curried elephant on stick .....Lol. A great idea but they are out of stock. although, I'm having a lot of rhinos. So what do you think of curried rhinos on stick bro.....!!
Good luck with it... my friend opened a 'western' restaurant (with Chinese food). Turns out she needed an extra license cos of the non-Chinese food they were doing... the kitchen, by my standards, was filthy and a death-trap, but that didn't matter... only that it was non-Chinese food!
You'll also need to consider that, if your restaurant is actually successful, and you start to earn a lot of money, the landlord will suddenly up the rent, cos they now want a cut of your success! This should also mean that the local police/city-men will want a bigger cut as well.
To answer your question - get your wife to look into the legalities, and if you trust her fully, get the restaurant in her name... much easier!
samad_khan772:
Thank you very much for your kind reply. We have our own property in city centre so the place isnt a problem for me. And yeah I'd like to open it using my wife's name. But do I need to Switch my visa then? Or this q1 is ok?
