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Pizzeria Training Period

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Getting Started In Your New Spanish Bar and Restaurant

If you have a lot of previous experience of running a bar you may decide to take the new bar on without any training from the previous owner.

But . . .

If you have no previous experience of running a bar or fast food place you will need some training. Usually if you are buying an up and running business, you will be able to negotiate a period of training to be included in the purchase price.

We Will Train The New Owners of Our Bar and Restaurant

In the case of my bar it would be useful for the incoming owner to learn all the details of running the bar on a day to day basis and this would include being introduced to the customers and the suppliers, where to buy basic provisions, how much stock to buy in etc. and then you would need to learn how to make the various menu items on the menu, all of which is pretty straight forward.

In addition to the above, as we also make pizzas the new owner would need to be taught how to make them and have supervision from the previous owner for a period of 2 weeks or so.

We Were Trained By The Previous Owners

When we bought our first bar and restaurant we had no previous experience and received 2 weeks instruction from the out-going owners. 2 ½ years later we bought our Bar, restaurant, pizzeria, take away and for this we had 4 weeks training, but really 2 weeks would have been sufficient, as weeks 3&4 were all about learning to cook bread and croissants which were skills we never used again.

Lastly, it is very important if you are buying a walk-in business to learn the names of as many of the regular customers as you can and undertaking to do a training period will give you this valuable opportunity.

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