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I am planning to open a Indian restaurant business near Cots Wold Village Shopping Center (in Rondolph and N Sharon Amity RD) Please advise me is the right time to open business and how about the job market in that area.
Well... I can think of one Indian restaurant at the corner of Sharon Amity & Independence near Brasas. There's another one on Carmel Rd., & another in the Tower Place shops on Hwy 51. What will make your restaurant stand out? Do you have enough savings to live on while you promote the restaurant?
I second what Barking said. I think there is some competition and you would need to have a menu, decor, service - something that would set your restaurant apart.
Good Indian cuisine will be appreciated - but as far as keeping a steady clientele - I would suggest finding an area where there is no competition - or having something that will really make your restaurant stand out. Not sure what that would be, or I would suggest it.
How about a take out curry house. Yum. I would love to be able to go in and order something and take it home with me. I know the main restaurants do take out but they don't specialise in it and of course they still charge you the sit down price. Something like the Chi-Thai in Harris Teeter at the Arboretum. I think it would be a hit and you wouldn't have such a big overhead as a restaurant. I look forward to your menu and I hope you do a good onion baji LOL
There are no decent indian restaurants up in Lake Norman. Man a good curry would be great!
Sangrums in Cornelius is great. I lived in London for many years and I know my indian food. You need to eat there. It is in the Shops on the Green off of Torrence Chappel Rd.
I am planning to open a Indian restaurant business near Cots Wold Village Shopping Center (in Rondolph and N Sharon Amity RD) Please advise me is the right time to open business and how about the job market in that area.
Regards
Vajjas
Restaurant businesses come and go in Charlotte. It is all location, location. You can have two identical restaurants across from each other. The one with the easiest accessability is the one that will succeed.
Indian restaurants seem to do very well if not rediciously priced. Also, there seems to be some demographics involved. It seems to me that indian cusine does heavy lunch buffet business with the blue collar workers and dinner business seems to do best with white collar and student populations. The area that you mentioned basically has huge populations of each from residents to workers passing by or working in the area.
You might want to check out the Lake Norman area. There is a new Fresh Market that just opened with several shops in the center being leased. Fresh Market will be a good magnet for traffic. It is in a high traffic area which is an advantage. You might want to look around Birkdale as well.
Good luck, as far as I am concerned, there can't be enough Indian restaurants. That is the main thing I miss about London. It seems to me that the best Indian restaurants around the country have not been the big lavish ones but the ones in the strip malls.
There is a very successful business here in UT called Curry in A Hurry. You can call ahead and have take-out waiting or you can dine inside. Not too fancy but very good food. They rotate what curries they make daily, so you don't get too tired of the same thing. Seems to be a good business model as they expanded a year or so ago.
Thanks for your feed back mine is lunch between $7 to $10 dollars and dinner between $8 to $12 dollars. I am bit confusing about present recession, loss of jobs (Wachovia and Bank of America) and I have to invest two hundred thousand. This is the right or Wrong time to open a business (I will open around March 2009). Please give me your feed back.
Regards
Vajja
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