A good fish and chip shop business plan is a vital part of your business start up. Not only will loan officers, and investors want to see your business plan, but you too will benefit from the clarity it gives to your purposes, goals and methods.
For that reason the rough draft of your fish and chip shop business plan should be very lengthy and brutally honest. Later you will clean it up, and make it more appealing for investors, but keep a copy of your more honest and innocent rough draft for your records. With it, keep all your notes, the figures which helped you derive your bottom line on all the expenses, and the marketing research notes that will be summarized in your business plan.
Your initial catering business plan will be largely based in brainstorming, question and answer, and off the cuff reaction, but your final draft should be very persuasive, refined and professional. Your first draft is to answer your questions and instill your own confidence, and the final draft is to answer the questions of others and instill their confidence in you and your business. The second step often proves quite ineffective without the first. How can you convince others of something you have not yet proven to your own satisfaction?
The final business plan for your fish and chip shop should be a bold statement, and its production creative and artful. Just as Michelangelo once said that his sculpture was no more than revealing the sculpture which was always hidden in the rock, so too, the first draft is your detailed vision of what has been unseen until now, while your finished fish and chip business plan is designed to reveal the character of your new business to others.