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Originally Posted by missymoon
Hi everyone, my family and I are starting our paperwork for residency there. My husband is a chef so we have been researching how profitable for us owning a fine dining restaurant would be versus a more bistro type restaurant. Can anyone shed some light on this? It may help to know what area we are looking to live and it is Sousa.
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In my mind - definitely bistro-type. You will orient your business on tourists mostly as with current prices expats practically stopped eating-out with very few exceptions.
Tourists still do but with the deepening recession it will be lucky enough to have them keep coming for vacations at all, without any "fine dinning". The most "fine dinnig" restaurant in Sosua Pierre Georgio is empty practically all the time.
Cheap faster food will be much more popular. Like Tom`s Scandinavian Bar.
If you are generous and will offer "happy hours" like Brittania ( $99DR a complete big hearty meal !!) you will be very popular and loved. In this case I guarantee support of myself and of my numerous friends and guests/visitors. Good unselfish ungreedy businesses deserve support.
Greed deserves dust.