Monday, March 16th:

PowerPoint Presentation *– Strategies for Success

*please print a copy of your presentation off, for professor, and in case of emergency

I. Of course, understand audience and purpose.

1. You are trying to persuade an investor by providing information of your restaurant concept, fully considering all business and cultural aspects of the proposal.
   

II.  Organization / Development of Presentation

• The most important aspect of a presentation is the clarity, and ordering your information (from slide to slide) in a logical manner
  

- Remember Organizational Patterns, Chapter 7

• How are you starting the presentation? What information comes when?
  

- When do you discuss the economics? Do you include all 

of the money aspects at once, or spread throughout presentation?

- When do you discuss community and how your place fits in?

- Real estate – property value (rent, or buy?)
- Neighborhood?

-  When do you discuss the food, the look of the restaurant, etc.?

- Each slide should be used effectively, with a smaller purpose 

that fits into the larger purpose of presentation.

- Divide presentation into larger categories 

of information first, perhaps, and then

devote a number of slides to each category

- Don’t spend too much time on one slide in presentation (30 

seconds/slide).

- Balance slides with proper amount of information – don’t make 

to busy with complicated graphics or large amounts of text

- Content meets form:
o Legibility of font; appropriate font size
o A font that thematically fits presentation and restaurant 

concept:

- Ex: elegant font for a “classic restaurant”; 

boxy, sharp-lined fonts (like Eurostile) for “modern."

o Color of font and slide background to fit theme, too
o Graphics – variety of graphics
- Pictures/ model of restaurant
· Inside; kitchen; outside; logo/sign; 

neighborhood shots

- Charts and Graphs
· Economics

- Table Charts – organizing steps/ phases

III. Using Effective Language