Restaurant Business Plan Template

Whether you’re opening a restaurant, expanding to a new location, or reworking your existing concept, use this Restaurant Business Plan Template to organize your vision and ensure that nothing is overlooked.

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Welcome to Restaurant Resource Center

Here you will find short video clips, eBooks, and templates designed to help you better run your restaurant business.

Management

Technology

Staffing & Hiring

Marketing

Metrics & Finance

Industry Trends

Marketing

Restaurant Marketing Plan

Use this restaurant marketing plan to create a custom marketing plan for your restaurant, outlining your marketing strategy, planned marketing activities, marketing budget, anticipated results, and more.

Marketing

Guide to Restaurant Social Media Marketing

In this Restaurant Social Media Guide, you’ll get an overview of how to best showcase your restaurant on the most popular social media sites.

Staffing & Hiring | Metrics & Finance

Tip Pooling Calculator

Download the Tip Pooling Calculator to learn how to distribute tips back to your restaurant’s employees using the tip pooling method.

Metrics & Finance

How to Measure and Increase Restaurant Sales

Toast's guide on restaurant sales for how to assess your current restaurant sales metrics, diagnose how to improve them, and track what works and what doesn’t.

Menu & Kitchen

The Restaurant Menu Engineering Course

This full-length online course has everything you need to know to make the most of your menu using menu engineering. Learn how to identify your menu's stars, puzzles, plowhorses, and dogs. Learn about menu psychology and design, managing your menu on your website and on third-party delivery sites, and adapting your menu when your restaurant is growing.

Menu & Kitchen

Menu Engineering Worksheet

Use this menu engineering worksheet, complete with intricate menu engineering formulas, to determine areas of strength and weakness in your restaurant's menu.

Menu & Kitchen

Restaurant Menu Templates

Download these 17 free, customizable, and print-ready menu templates to update your restaurant's menu and refresh your restaurant brand.

Management

Restaurant Floor Plan Templates

Use these restaurant floor plan templates to get inspired as you map, or reimagine, the layout and space setup for your restaurant. Visualize how employees and guests will move through the restaurant space, and learn how technology has become an integral part of the restaurant floor plan today.

Management | Technology | Metrics & Finance | Industry Trends

The New Steps of Service ROI Calculator

The New Steps of Service, powered by Toast Order & Pay™, is a new service model shaking up restaurants across the country. Use this calculator to learn how it can benefit your restaurant and impact your bottom line.

Technology | Marketing | Industry Trends

Reimagine Digital Hospitality [Webinar Recording]

Watch this panel discussion presented by Toast, in partnership with Raydiant and Incentivio, to learn how restaurateurs are building loyalty, bringing in more online orders, and turning casual guests into happy regulars.

Management

Reimagine On-Premise Dining [Webinar Recording]

Watch this panel discussion presented by Toast and Resy to learn how restaurateurs are adapting their in-house operations and service models to create an experience that’s more efficient, profitable, and equitable than before.

Metrics & Finance

Restaurant Opening Calculator: How Much Does It Cost to Open a Restaurant?

This free calculator lays out some of the fundamental financial costs of opening a restaurant, so you can start planning and bring your dream restaurant to life.