What does a business plan for a restaurant cost?
Effective and last updated: September 3, 2026
$720 for a lender-format restaurant plan with three-year projections.
A restaurant plan is judged on three percentages -- food cost, labour cost and occupancy -- and on whether the seat turn assumption is one a real dining room can do.
What goes in a restaurant plan
- Food cost, labour cost and occupancy as percentages of revenue, which is the shape a lender compares against every other application.
- Seats, turns per service and average ticket, split between lunch and dinner rather than averaged into one number.
- Fit-out, kitchen equipment and licensing as capital, kept apart from the working capital you need to survive month three.
- A pre-opening period with a cash line for it, because the rent starts before the revenue does.
What the price includes
- Full written plan: summary, market, operations, marketing, and risks
- Three-year financial projections as a spreadsheet you can edit
- Formatted for lender and grant submissions
- Two revision rounds included
Turnaround: 10-14 business days
We write the plan you describe. We do not certify figures, and no plan guarantees any lender or investor will say yes.
What this costs elsewhere
The going rate we measured for this work is $900. Ours is $720, so you keep $180. Every price on this site is published rather than quoted after a discovery call, and it is the same number for everybody.
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