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How to Open an Event Venue That Becomes Twelve Different Rooms
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How to Open an Event Venue That Becomes Twelve Different Rooms

In short: how to open an event venue is unlike opening a restaurant, because you have no product of your own. The client brings the event...

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How to Open a Private Members Club That Works Half Empty
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How to Open a Private Members Club That Works Half Empty

In short: how to open a private members club is a subscription business with a bar attached. Members pay monthly whether they come or not...

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How to Open a Buffet Restaurant Judged on Its Last Refill
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How to Open a Buffet Restaurant Judged on Its Last Refill

In short: how to open a buffet restaurant is a replenishment problem. A guest's opinion of your food is formed by the tray in front of th...

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How to Start a Catering Business That Arrives Intact
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How to Start a Catering Business That Arrives Intact

In short: how to start a catering business is a question about the gap between your kitchen and somebody else's room. The cooking is the ...

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How to Open a Craft Beer Bar Where Variety Does Not Go Flat
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How to Open a Craft Beer Bar Where Variety Does Not Go Flat

In short: how to open a craft beer bar is a fight between two things you want at the same time. Guests come for choice; draft beer reward...

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How to Open a Frozen Yogurt Shop When the Customer Sets the Portion
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How to Open a Frozen Yogurt Shop When the Customer Sets the Portion

In short: how to open a frozen yogurt shop is unusual because you do not portion the product — the customer does, and then you weigh it. ...

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How to Open a Deli Without the Counter Eating the Margin
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How to Open a Deli Without the Counter Eating the Margin

In short: how to open a deli comes down to one uncomfortable trade. A counter that looks abundant sells more; a counter that still looks ...

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How to Open a Bagel Shop Where the Kettle Sets the Pace
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How to Open a Bagel Shop Where the Kettle Sets the Pace

In short: how to open a bagel shop is a question about one pot. The boil is the step that makes a bagel a bagel rather than a bread roll,...

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How to Open a Steakhouse Around a Product You Cannot Improve
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How to Open a Steakhouse Around a Product You Cannot Improve

In short: how to open a steakhouse is a yield question before it is a cooking one. The steak arrives at its best; nothing in your kitchen...

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How to Open a Donut Shop Around a Four-Hour Product
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How to Open a Donut Shop Around a Four-Hour Product

In short: how to open a donut shop is a scheduling problem wearing a bakery costume. The product peaks about half an hour after it leaves...

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How to Open a Ghost Kitchen for Food That Travels
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How to Open a Ghost Kitchen for Food That Travels

In short: how to open a ghost kitchen is a question about the twenty minutes after the food leaves. Nothing is tasted at your pass — it i...

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How to Open a Cocktail Bar: the Menu Is the Equipment List
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How to Open a Cocktail Bar: the Menu Is the Equipment List

In short: how to open a cocktail bar is mostly one question asked twelve times — what does this drink need in order to leave the bar in n...

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How to Open a Pizzeria: the Oven Decides the Menu
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How to Open a Pizzeria: the Oven Decides the Menu

In short: how to open a pizzeria starts with the oven, because it decides the style of pizza, the throughput, the staffing and the ventil...

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How to Open a Speakeasy Behind an Unmarked Door
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How to Open a Speakeasy Behind an Unmarked Door

In short: how to open a speakeasy is a trade between mystery and capacity. Every step of concealment buys atmosphere and costs you walk-i...

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How to Open a Karaoke Bar the Neighbours Can Live With
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How to Open a Karaoke Bar the Neighbours Can Live With

In short: how to open a karaoke bar is a question about where sound escapes. Four leak paths decide whether the venue survives its neighb...

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Twelve Rooms, Twelve of Everything: How to Open a Boutique Hotel
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Twelve Rooms, Twelve of Everything: How to Open a Boutique Hotel

In short: how to open a boutique hotel is a question about a building, not a room type. Twelve keys means twelve of everything and no eco...

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How to Open a Patisserie When the Fridge Does the Work
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How to Open a Patisserie When the Fridge Does the Work

In short: how to open a patisserie is a cold question before it is a baking one. Almost everything on the counter was finished yesterday ...

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How to Open an Espresso Bar in Under Twenty Square Meters
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How to Open an Espresso Bar in Under Twenty Square Meters

In short: how to open an espresso bar comes down to a tape measure. Four meters of counter, five working zones, and a decision about seat...

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How to Open a Sushi Bar Around One Refrigerated Counter
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How to Open a Sushi Bar Around One Refrigerated Counter

In short: how to open a sushi bar is a cold-chain question with seats attached. Fish spends its whole life between the van and the plate ...

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How to Open a Nightclub: Equipment, Costs & Licences
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How to Open a Nightclub, Hour by Hour

A nightclub is four different businesses in one night. This guide to how to open a nightclub walks it hour by hour — the door, the room a...

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How to Open a Pub: Equipment, Costs & Licences
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How to Open a Pub Where the First Pint Sells the Second

Every pub is judged on one pint. This guide to how to open a pub follows the beer from the cellar to the glass, then covers the bar aroun...

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How to Open a Hotel: Equipment Checklist, Costs, and Licences
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How to Open a Hotel Where Every Room Is the Same Decision

A hotel is one room repeated, plus the machinery that resets it. This guide to how to open a hotel separates what you buy once from what ...

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How to Open a Coffee Shop: Equipment, Costs & Licences
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How to Open a Coffee Shop That Survives the Morning Rush

A cafe takes most of its money in three hours. This guide to how to open a coffee shop builds the counter around that peak — what the que...

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How to Open a Hotel Bar: Equipment, Costs, and Licences
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How to Open a Hotel Bar That Earns From Breakfast to Last Call

A hotel bar trades three different days before last call. This guide to how to open a hotel bar builds it that way — coffee counter, terr...

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