The list below is roughly the basic tools and equipment that you need to have in order to establish your own restaurant. The idea with food service businesses is that they have a higher chance to survive even during a rough economic crisis, and the reason for such is much simpler and that is people need to eat, and when you sell food, you are offered a very basic human need and they will never be able to resist the need to purchase. Thus, it is a great idea to establish a restaurant among many other businesses.
Place and Location
So, in order to establish your own restaurant first you need a place and a working space to cook and prepare your menu. Other would argue that you do not need a space because of the online food service, but then again, a restaurant is a place where you eat your food and have it prepared and delivered is basically different from that of a restaurant.
The place and location are important because your place must have a theme and the place should reflect the theme and atmosphere of your restaurant. For example, grills and seafood restaurants have a different vibe compared to that of a fine dining restaurants. The location is also important in the way where you want to place your business within the foot traffic range where people can easily locate and access the restaurant.
Dining Set
Of course, you need a dining set, if you ask about the number of sets well it depends on how many tables and customers you are planning to take at a given time. Some prefer a smaller number of tables to wait for so that the crew can focus more on the food and experience rather than the volume of customers and profit. The dining set should also be presentable enough for the place, it should be decent and presentable, you could not just give crooked utensils and chipped plates to your customers, and you always have to give them the best.
Complete Kitchen Tools
Aside from the ingredients and other resources, kitchen tools are probably the costliest among the equipment and needs that are needed for a restaurant. If you need a bigger budget for a commercial kitchen equipment you can actually apply for a loan for that specific need.
And yes of course you will be paying through the loan as you operate but then again, the kitchen tools and equipment itself is already an asset for the company so you do not have to burden yourself with the loan as long as you are earning and the business is continuously operating on a daily basis.
With that in hand, all you need is sheer courage, creativity, and determination to pull through what you really want to do. Yes, there is money involved and that should not hinder you or make you afraid in terms of investing time and resources into that restaurant but rather it has to make you more aggressive and courageous with how you deal with your business.