When you have decided to open up a restaurant below few things are very
important.

1. Decide the name of the restaurant
2. Than buy the domainname.com
3. Go for good location and see what is going good in that location whether
pizza, indian, chinese and so on. What we call this is market research, I
think you need to spend lots of time in market research.
4. I believe getting your own restaurant and brand it is most important one
than franchise one
5. After everything complete than you must have own website with online
ordering system, when you have capital always give website and online
ordering system into account because that will bring business to you all the
time.

I hope this advice is helpful

When you said "yes" to franchise, I assume that you want to go that route
instead of your own concept. The type of franchise might be in part
determined by the amount of funds available to you. In other words, you need
more capital to start a typical McDonalds than it takes to start a typical
Subway. Location of course is the most important, and here the franchisor
might be able to help you. Doing some research on the websites of the most
popular franchise restaurants will give you a better idea.

Hi Crystal,  Check out our information about buying a franchise. One of our Industry Word guest bloggers also writes exensively on the topic of franchises. You can also refer to this existing thread from a recent conversation about restaurant businesses.