Ryan S's Essay

Question- What does it take to have a successful, culturally based restaurant in a city like Boston?

It takes a lot to make a successful, culturally based restaurant in a big city like Boston. You first need to figure out the type of restaurant you would like to be. It is much easier if you are of that culture. For example if you are Italian you should open an Italian restaurant. It takes more than just having good food to make the business successful. The owner must be good with their customers and have good financial books.
The food is what calls the people to the restaurant. If the person is born from that country usually most of the time they will have good authentic food. When you are from that country you know what it is like to make a good business in their country where the competition is high because they are surrounded by the same foods. When they open their own restaurant in Boston there will be less competition for that type of food and it will be easier to make a profit.
When a restaurant has good food people would also like to have a fitting price and sit in a nice place. The conditions of the restaurant must be clean and it usually helps if the place is decorative. When the food police come around and a restaurant is in bad conditions and not in a safe environment, they can close down the restaurant until it becomes improved. The easiest way to avoid from getting shut down is to clean up after every days work and never get lazy in the restaurant.
Usually if a person would like to start a restaurant of their culture they will not start off in a huge sit down area. They will start small in a little place until they get the recognition and then move on up to a bigger place. The location of where your restaurant is, is also extremely important. If the restaurant is in a dump of an area people will not be attracted to going there. However, if it is in a nice area people will become more attracted to it and go more often.
Restaurants can be extremely tough to design and own in Boston, but they are possible for people if they have a set plan. Although the one Mexican place that we visited in Cambridge was small it was one of the best Mexican restaurants I have ever eaten at. That little Mexican restaurant was better then some of the big chain restaurants. The experience that the food group had on JUA was a great way to understand the different topics food can bring up. I Based this paper off the questions I asked at every restaurant we ate at. Almost every employee that I asked said that you must work your way from the bottom to the top and it takes a lot o hard work. But with the right plan it can happen.