About

I'm Yasar Bakici. For fifteen years I owned and ran Time Café & Bar in Brentford, west London: a daytime café that turned into a bar at night, with a kitchen, a cocktail list, a team of staff and all the paperwork that comes with it.

When I started, every guide I found was written by people selling something, or by people who had never worked a Friday night. So this site is the opposite: real numbers from my own invoices, the mistakes I actually made, and the records that got me through every inspection.

How this site works

• The guides are free. No sign-up, no newsletter pop-ups.
• The calculators are free and run in your browser. Nothing you type is stored.
• Some links earn a referral. If you sign up with a till system or buy something through a link here, the company may pay us a commission. It never changes your price, and I only link to things I used or would use myself. Full details.
• The Records Pack is ours. It's the paperwork I ran my own bar on, tidied up so you can print it.

Türkçe

Türkiye'de doğdum, Londra'da büyüdüm. İngiltere'de kafe, bar veya restoran işleten Türkler için rehberlerin Türkçesi de var: Türkçe bölüm.

Questions or corrections: hello@hospitalityowner.co.uk.