Running a bar
The business side of a bar: writing the plan, what opening costs, the steps to open, and the profit a cocktail bar really keeps.
Every guide in this topic
- How to open a barThe steps to opening a bar, from your concept and budget to licensing, build-out, hiring and the first stock count.Complete guide · 15 min · By Jason Cutbirth
- How much does it cost to open a bar?The lines of a bar opening budget, what other bars borrowed to open, and how to price each line for your own space.Guide · 10 min
- How to write a bar business planWhat to write, how to forecast a new bar's numbers, and the tests a lender runs on them, with a free template.Guide · 10 min
- The bar profit margin a cocktail bar really keepsThe two numbers called profit margin, how to work out each one from your own sales, and what real bars keep.Guide · 9 min