If you are looking for a right construction company in order to construct a restaurant project which may be quite difficult.
If you are interested to ensure that restaurant construction is a successful one and complete the project within the budgeted cost and also within the agreed time frame, then you need to understand that the restaurant project is quite different from a residential house or other commercial construction project.
Mentioned below are few steps that you need to follow for hiring any contractor for such project.
- How should be selection process
In order to search for such contractor following are few actions you may take:
- Search for contractor in the yellow pages
- Search on the internet
- Ask for referral
- Also perform your own research from various other sources
It is necessary to ensure that all the contractors must be having experience of working for few restaurants. Also, it is necessary to check all his previous projects done by the contractor.
- For an estimate, prepare all materials to make appointments on site
Now you must make proper estimate of the various materials by consulting a well known professional and keep it with you. Now you must invite all the contractors at the project site and ask them to provide their estimation about the material
Let them check the existing site and also the local condition and let them prepare their own estimation about the materials required for the project.
Now only those contractors whose estimate is closer to the estimation that you have obtained from an expert should be short listed.
- Compare estimate from various contractors
Now since you have got the estimation submitted by each of the contractor and hence now you can compare them. You may also ask any questions related to their estimation in case you find their estimation much different from yours.
This will reveal their concerns about the project due to which their estimation was so much different from others.
It will also a food for your thought so far as the project estimation is concerned.
- Perform more background check
You can also ask each of the contractors to produce few references so that you can confirm from their references about their past projects.
You can ask the restaurant owners and try to obtain feedback about the restaurant that was built by the contractor.
You can also apply the same for each of the contractor that you have shortlisted for your project.
