What is your Unique Selling Point. #3

The heart of a Restaurant is its Unique Selling Point .... USP. 

Have you identified your USP? 

Is it an item? 

Is it your Location?

..... your interiors, music you play, or anything else? 

Recently, in Pune, a Tea vendor has been making waves with his simple tea, costing ₹10/-. He sells nothing else, only and only hot and fresh Tea. 

A Wada-Pav seller has the same experience at a Garden in Pune. 

A Hill-Top Restaurant can be the attraction for many........ it’s location matters. 

Another might be situated amidst a lake with water all around. 

Somebody had this unique idea of a Restaurant inside a Bus.

A USP of a special dish for every month.... can very well be the reason for customers to come to you every month. 

I know of a Bar where people flock in only because the Restaurant specialises in playing Kishore Kumar songs! Getting drunk and Kishore’s sad songs have an unbreakable tie. 

I had once visited a Resort in Velavadar,  Gujarat, which is famous for the animal ‘Blackbuck’. Naturally this Restaurant situated in the jungles has ‘Blackbuck’ as it’s USP. Each and every item inside this resort had  the theme of Blackbuck in it. Even the towel holder inside its Washroom had the shape of a Blackbuck with the hooks designed in the form of the horns of a Blackbuck.

Once your USP is set it becomes easy for deciding a lot of things. Theme of the Restaurant becomes clear. 

The Menu options decisions are driven by this factor. 

The Marketing of the Restaurant now revolves around the USP. 

Hence, ...... the heart of a Restaurant.... it’s USP! 

Where is your Location? #1

We come into this world not having a choice of to whom we are born (Parents) where we are born (place) or how will we grow physically. 

A Kohli born in a Cricket fanatic nation or a Maradona born in a Football fanatic nation get an added advantage of being short in height as a batsman and a forward respectively. A Stephen Curry (Basketball, USA)  or a Usain Bolt (Runner, Jamaica) are tall. A Basketball player or a Sprinter benefit from being tall. 

It shows that the place of birth and your physique determines the difference between a fairly successful career and a world beater. 

The Location of a Restaurant is the most important part for its success. The location  is decided by the purpose for which it is established. 

A Restaurant can run equally well at a thickly populated area, or in an island where no one resides or even at the top of the Mountain where accessibility itself is an effort. The only condition is our clarity of purpose for which the Restaurant has come into being. 

The next important factor is its size. Again the purpose of the Restaurant plays an important factor. A चाय की टपरी (roadside outlet) can be as viable as the Restaurant having space enough for a 1000 Customers. 

We have to define our demand for the location and space required in advance. Once it is freezed and we finalise on a place there will be no option left. If we fail in this then to make the Project successful either we have to change the purpose of the Restaurant altogether or...... close down. No 3rd way out here!