| If you are looking to open a bed and breakfast for | | | | When running the B&B Inn you should not forget |
| whatever reason, I would like to tell you that you have | | | | about the actual breakfast. You should make sure a |
| made a great choice. You should know that it is going | | | | nice home-cooked breakfast is available for your |
| to take some time to fully establish your bed and | | | | guests each and every morning. You should make this |
| breakfast, unless you choose a franchise. The most | | | | breakfast available in a commercial dining room, |
| work in establishing a bed and breakfast business is | | | | as-well-as, in the guest's own room; it's your choice on |
| the planning. | | | | how you want to handle that situation. |
| Having a bed and breakfast franchise is great but you | | | | Today it seems like bed and breakfast franchises are |
| should do the proper amount of research before you | | | | very popular and are beginning to rise into public view |
| have completely made up your mind. First, do you | | | | more and more every day. When starting your |
| know what a bed and breakfast is? A bed and | | | | B&B you should know you are going to have a lot |
| breakfast is a cross between a very nice hotel and | | | | of competition. In the 1980's the SBA records show |
| your home. If you are looking to start a bed and | | | | only a handful of properties for B&Bs, |
| breakfast business then you should know that it is not | | | | (approximately 1,000 properties hosted around one |
| like a regular hotel, it does not have fifty to one | | | | million guests). Today you will find 28,000 properties |
| hundred rooms. One bed and breakfast will consist of | | | | that are hosting 50.5 million guests. |
| four to ten guest rooms with bath, a large living area, | | | | If you are starting a bed and breakfast for profit, you |
| and dining room plus a great kitchen. | | | | should choose a franchise that is very popular. Your |
| If you plan on a B and B business you may also want | | | | B&B business will be as successful as you make |
| to keep in mind that the owners live at the Inn. The | | | | it but remember it takes time to start your B&B |
| owners at the site treat it as their home and act as if | | | | Inn and franchising can make the job easier. B&B |
| the travelers are their guests, which they are, just | | | | inns date back to the Roman Empire and you know |
| paying guest. The guests in the B&B business | | | | what they say; Rome wasn't built in a day. |
| expect to be treated very well. | | | | |