Opening a Restaurant or Other Food Business Starter Kit: How to Prepare a Restaurant Business Plan and Feasibility Study: Sharon Fullen

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Restaurants are one of the most frequently started small businesses, yet have one of the highest failure rates. Survivors need a powerful strategic advantage: a sound business plan and feasibility study prior to opening. A new study from The Ohio State University has found the restaurant industry failure rate between 1996 [...]

The Encyclopedia of Restaurant Forms: A Complete Kit of Ready-to-use Checklists, Worksheets, And Training AIDS for a Successful Food Service Operation: Douglas Robert Brown

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If you’re in the process of starting a new restaurant or are managing an existing food service operation, this is the one book you need to do it right. Always wanted a personal assistant at your disposal? Now you will have one, in book form! Designed to save the food service [...]

The Restaurant: From Concept to Operation: Donald E. Lundberg, John R. Walker

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“- “…presents a basic framework of a broad variety of issues which the budding restaurateur would need to address” International Journal of Hospitality Management”
–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

This elementary text for hotel [...]

Lessons in Excellence from Charlie Trotter: Paul Clarke, Charlie Trotter

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From Booklist
Creating a world-class restaurant requires command of more talents than cooking alone. A wise chef must master all the arts: painting, music, architecture, and even dance, all of which combine in any consummate dining experience. A chef must also acquire business skills: accounting, human [...]

Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip–Confessions of a Cynical Waiter: Steve Dublanica Aka The Waiter

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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Anonymity is tough to maintain when you want to do a book tour. Such is the case with Steve Dublanica, a seminary dropout and laid-off psychiatric worker who, in 2004, started www.WaiterRant.net, blogging as The Waiter. His brutal observations on waiting [...]

Running a Restaurant for Dummies: Michael Garvey, Heather Dismore, Andrew Dismore

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Millions of Americans dream of owning and running their own restaurant — because they want to be their own boss, because their cooking always draws raves, or just because they love food. Running a Restaurant For Dummies covers every aspect of getting started for wannabe restaurateurs. From setting up a business [...]

The Restaurant Managers Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Food Service Operation: Douglas Robert Brown

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I’m going to recommend a wonderful source of information, everything a successful restaurant operation needs. “The Restaurant Managers Handbook”. — Food Industry News November 2002, Jim Contis Publisher
New edition of a reference for professionals and newcomers to the field, provides step by step advice. 19 [...]

Guest-Based Marketing: How to Increase Restaurant Sales Without Breaking Your Budget: Bill Marvin

Increase sales substantially without breaking the bank—proven, low-cost techniques for successfully marketing your business
In this groundbreaking guide to restaurant marketing, expert Bill Marvin demonstrates that success doesn’t come from beating the competition, it comes from pleasing your guests. He shows you how to work from the inside out—to build on your strengths [...]

The Restaurant Managers Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Food Service Operation: Douglas Robert Brown

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I’m going to recommend a wonderful source of information, everything a successful restaurant operation needs. “The Restaurant Managers Handbook”. — Food Industry News November 2002, Jim Contis Publisher
New edition of a reference for professionals and newcomers to the field, provides step by step advice. [...]

The Food Service Managers Guide to Creative Cost Cutting and Cost Control: Over 2001 Innovative and Simple Ways to Save Your Food Service Operation Thousands by Reducing Expenses: Douglas Robert Brown

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This is one of the very few books written for existing operators in both the commercial and non-commercial sectors. You will find over 2,001 practical, insider techniques and tips that have been gleaned from successful operators from around the world and tested in real-life food [...]