Ready to start your own restaurant or run yours more efficiently?
Learn how to find the right location, equipment, employees, and inventory to keep your business competitive and your customers coming in and coming back. Build a network that will provide resources and advice on how to reach your goals, assist you with an action plan, and help you hold yourself accountable with Restaurant Business Builders.
Restaurant Business Builders is a 10-week program, meeting once per week for a 3-hour session.
Group learning and networking to discuss challenges, exchange resources, and find solutions with peers.
30 hours of business education specifically designed for new restaurant owners taught by subject matter experts and successful local restaurateurs. Complete the form on this page to get a detailed course outline.
Session 1: Your Concept & the Money to Do It
Session 2: Setting Financial Goals & Tracking Your Success
Session 3: Finding and Leasing Your Location
Session 4: Managing Your Money
Session 5: Menu Designing & Stocking Your Restaurant
Session 6: Designing Your Restaurant & Kitchen
Session 7: Essential Digital Marketing
Session 8: Branding and Marketing Your Restaurant
Session 9: Regulations and Reviews
Session 10: Attracting and Managing Employees
Up to 5 hours of one-on-one advising in confidential meetings.
Complimentary access to “Before You Go Global,” an online course to help you start selling your products in global markets.
Access to specialty business advisors with a wide range of expertise.
Access to market research resources such as Southern Oregon University Market Research Institute, SBDCNet, Reference USA, MarketLink, and Euromonitor.
Learn from restaurant owners and industry experts! You will learn best practices right from the start.
Restaurant owner guest speakers:
Cory Schreiber, chef, author, and founder of Wildwood Restaurant
Matthew Firoz, owner of NEPO42
Michelle Cairo, co-owner of Olympia Provisions
Uri Kushner, owner of Dairy Hill
John Gorham, co-owner and executive chef of Toro Bravo, Tasty n Sons, Tasty n Alder, Mediterranean Exploration Company, Shalom Y’all, and PLAZA DEL TORO
Online: Visit the Continuing Education registration page. If this is your first time registering, create an account. If you are a returning student, click on “Register in MyPCC”.
Oregon Small Business Development Centers are funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration, and by the Oregon Business Development Department.
