Ferran Adrià says we should all make a budget plan to make ends meet.

BarcelonaChef Ferran Adrià wants to help restaurants with a management plan because he knows that six out of ten close. He stated this on Monday at the CaixaBank Auditorium before the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Salvador Illa, the Minister of Industry, Jordi Hereu, the President of CaixaBank, Tomás Muniesa, and economic authorities and chefs, including Joan Roca, Nandu Jubany, Jordi Vilà, Albert Raurich, and his brother, Albert Adrià.

"I've written the book Genesis Plan, a business plan for the gastronomic restoration industry"For students in vocational culinary programs at specialized universities. According to the chef, anyone wanting to open a restaurant should have a management plan in place. In fact, 'at home, we should all have a plan to make ends meet; I myself don't own a car because my wife and I realized we saved money by taking taxis.'

Innovation, making ends meet

So, when someone wants to open a restaurant, they should ask themselves why they want to open it, whether the profits will allow them to pay off loans and save money. Once these questions have been asked, innovation audits, which are vital, must be carried out, either monthly or annually. "Every day we must strive to be better; that's where the innovation plan comes from." And then a strategic plan is necessary. "For a small business to work, there must be three things: quality, good management, and an innovative attitude," Ferran Adrià asserted. And an innovative attitude means "truly finding your place in life." Furthermore, when you open the restaurant, "you won't work eight hours a day, but you also won't have to ask the team to do what you do yourself," which is one of the key principles Ferran Adrià learned at his restaurant, El Bulli. Finally, the chef recalled that in 2011, when he and his dear friend Juli Soler considered closing the restaurant and opening a foundation, they weren't quite sure what they would do. "We were crazy, yes, but we wanted to give back to society what society had given us." And finally, he said: "My wife does the budgets at home, but my passion has always been numbers."