Opening a Restaurant business in Morocco. Looking for business partner

tre899free wrote:

hello dears

Look for a great partner to develop my Ideas.

Are you a native Arabic speaker? Or Moroccan or of Moroccan descent? This makes a difference in opening any sort of business in Morocco.

kaan wrote:

a very sad opinion of morocco i must say and in 98% i agree with you  i was just curious      i do wonder why foreigners do business here  me included

I'm not generalising because it's "a majority" who will cheat and lie, not every single one. However, the ones who don't are so few and far between that it's effectively impossible to do business here unless you are on top of people, deliveries, orders, cash flow, everything 24/7. I have seen it so many times and I would never, ever open a business here. Friends of mine whom I have advised not to open businesses have lost every penny through trusting people instead of dealing with things themselves. It's a tragedy.

tre899free wrote:

sorry to be not clear.
I am a Italian senior with over thirty years experiences in hotel, restaurant, and wine sommelier all over Europe.
at the moment I am Maitre in hotel with food and beverage cost duty
in Europe and specially in Italy, is getting hard working and pay all the tax, many TAX, and live with dignity.
I have proposed a restaurant, beautifully, in Morocco, with swimming pool, few rooms, ready to work.   
I looking for a local person to be interested to do business together. Never mind if got no experience in food industries, we need to introduce  our self in to the city.
I agree with laduqesa and kaan when writhing that, if you're not Moroccan can get cheated till last penny.
therefore I searching for a partners. possibly Moroccan or some one that knows how to move.
anyway, my business is dealing with suppliers,  in a short  time I will get it.

Badrimmo wrote:

Wow, i'm just curious, why, and how are u living in a country where most of people, and i'm sure you are just achamed to say the whole moroccan population, are cheaters ...
I really can't understand, and didn't expected it from a british lady, i've got lot of anglosaxones friends living here in marrakech, that's the first time I hear someone talking about moroccans like this "Even if they are respectable, they are cheaters" I'm i dreaming? Just to let you know madame, 40 million moroccans are respectable, cheaters exist everywhere in this world, racists exist everywhere in this world ...

It's not so much that 40,000,000 Moroccans are cheats and liars and I never said that. I said that the majority of people who set up business here, if they are foreigners, get cheated by MOST (not all) of their business contacts. Perhaps the sort of scumbags who do this cheating are those who particularly prey on foreigners and who make if their business to do so, as many alighting on these forums do. I have seen this countless times with different non-Moroccan nationalities. Business is impossible to conduct unless you are overseeing activities every business hour. If you don't do that, yes, even ostensibly respectable Moroccans will cheat you.

As for your assertions that 40,000,000 Moroccans are respectable, you are making the sort of generalisations that you are falsely accusing me of. Tell the people who get cheated daily by taxi drivers simply for being a foreigner that everyone is "respectable". Tell it to those intimidated out of their wits by carpet shop owners simply for being a foreigner. Tell it to those who get charged 5 times the price simply for being a foreigner. Tell it to those hassled and harassed by feckless young men in every tourist destination simply for being a foreigner. Tell it to the women who get groped and propositioned and sworn at simply for being a foreigner.

Yes, I live here and I like it. I work and have no need to open a business and nor would I ever. I wouldn't want to have the worry of a business succeeding and on top of that having to be on top of every tiny thing, knowing that I would be cheated if I wasn't. So I am perfectly happy with my interactions with everyday Moroccans who have no lever on my money. That is the difference.

landlord615 wrote:

If u ve mny nd wnt establish a restaurent in marakech. Its a good idea nd its a profitable project. Wich will generate lot of money coz. Restaurnt is sth. Important .. No one could pass his day without eatin. .... Ny way. Just a small advice to u bro. Try to find a place near to jamma al fana where there r lot of ppl there. Good luck

Please! Restaurant ventures founder every month. Closures and openings are frequent. Many of the closures are due to the owner not paying the most minute attention to his staff and suppliers, paying over the odds and getting pilfered or embezzled. Others are because of the vagaries of fashion, luck or otherwise and perhaps personality.

Please don't tell people that they are going to "generate lot of money" from a restaurant project as if it's the easiest thing in the world. It's not. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, as they say. But there's still plenty of scope to lose everything and live one's twilight years in penury.

Your post was giving incorrect information and advice.

i am Indian and I interested to join with your business  and please send your contact details

Thanks & regards

Althaf

Hello everyone,

Please note that this is an old thread from 2014, I am therefore closing it. Those looking for a business partner, please refer to the dedicated section by posting an advert : Business partners in Morocco

All the best

Bhavna

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