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Startup kits and restaurant operations templates. Explore our first active business collection below.
FOOD & BEVERAGE / FOOD & BEVERAGE STARTUP GUIDES
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Hot Dog Stand Startup Kit, Essential
A 42-page startup guide with 16 chapters and 6 templates for planning a hot dog cart or stand.
Hot Dog Stand Startup Kit, Complete
Everything in Essential, plus a linked Financial Workbook, an editable Business Plan Template and all 18 operating templates.
Hot Dog Stand Startup Kit, Premium
Everything in Complete, plus an editable guide, a printable 20-page Template Pack, an Event Pricing Calculator and a Location Scouting Log.
Food Truck Startup & Operations Kit, 2026 Edition
A 32-page guide with 18 chapters and 8 appendices, an editable .docx copy and an 11-tab Financial Workbook.
Coffee Cart & Kiosk Startup & Operations Kit, 2026 Edition
A 30-page guide with 16 chapters and 8 appendices, an editable .docx copy and a 13-tab Financial Workbook.
FOOD & BEVERAGE / RESTAURANT OPERATIONS TEMPLATES
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Opening and Closing Checklist System
Opening, mid-shift and closing checklists for 7 stations (140 tasks), plus temperature, cooling, reheating and receiving logs and a deep-clean schedule.
Recipe Costing and Menu Pricing Calculator
A 200-ingredient list with yields, 12 recipe cards with nested sub-recipes, suggested menu prices and a menu engineering matrix.
Inventory Management and Ordering Template
Room for 200 items, a shelf-order count sheet, par-based case-rounded orders for 5 vendors, valuation, COGS and usage variance.
Restaurant Operations Template Bundle
All three restaurant systems for $45, saving $12 compared with buying them separately ($57).
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Familiar formats
Excel workbooks, editable documents and PDF guides. See each product for its files.
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Made to work with
Workbooks tested in Google Sheets and Excel for the web. No macros, scripts or external links.
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Yours to put to use
Digital downloads for your own business, with sample data and instructions to get started.
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