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Congrats on getting something out there! One thing I'm always most cautious about this is what do we really know? I can give you some advice about what I think
by nate 13y ago
Congrats on getting something out there!
One thing I'm always most cautious about this is what do we really know? I can give you some advice about what I think you could do better, but I don't run a restaurant, and those are the conversations that really count. Maybe they'd prefer this page be brown with a yellow comic-sans font. So take this with an enormous grain of salt.
1) The lede concerns me. Is that how restaurant owners talk? They want to forecast better? If so, great. I have a feeling though that there is a different language they use. I don't know what it is though. If you do, than great keep going. If you don't you need to figure out what this language is. Find a restaurant owner and figure out what he has typed into google. Is it "how to increase restaurant sales" might be a more common question on their mind that you could fit into.
2) You need to show some social proof. Some testimonials. Someone somewhere has said something nice about you and/or this project. If not, that is step 1. Get whatever this is in front of someone that will say, "this is great".
3) I'm nervous self-service SaaS for restaurants might not be the right business model. I've talked with some restaurant owners. Many seem like their top of mind problems are keeping their employees from stealing or their glassware from chipping or their produce getting delivered on time. They don't seem like they have a ton of time figuring out a software system to help them. (I believe Opentable started by basically holding these restaurants hands and giving them the computers systems and everything they needed)
I have a feeling you'd have more luck getting a quick meeting in a booth at the back of the restaurant between lunch and dinner than getting owners to this landing page.
4) There's a great program in Chicago, called Inspiration Kitchen, a non-profit to help homeless people with things like training to work a kitchen to help them get jobs. There's other programs like this in other cities where non-profits are running kitchens and restaurants. If there's something like that in your area, and you volunteered with them for 2 hours a week, I bet you'd get some really nice connections and insight on how you could help them with software like this.