The Industry Sessions Miami: The Real Cost of Opening a Restaurant

Trying to get your restaurant off the ground? There’s a lot of questions you have to ask yourself.

Do you have a concept solidified? Do you have a location? How much is this all going to cost?

Five of Miami’s top restaurateurs speak candidly about the costs of opening a restaurant and how they tackled them during their journey. Some topics include:

• The costs associated with opening a business
• The pros and cons of bringing in investors
• The biggest learnings from running a successful restaurant

The Industry Sessions takes Miami and tackles one big question: How Much Does it Cost to Open a Restaurant?

by Yvonne Tsui

Yvonne lives to eat. She’s known to her friends as the “Ask Alexa” for the best restaurants in cities all over North America. When she’s not doing on-the-ground, scrappy PR for TouchBistro, she’s a freelance food and drink writer and tells the origin stories, struggles, and successes of restaurateurs – veteran and new.