The Restaurant

Equips aspiring restaurant owners to master a broad variety of start-up issues and gain the solid footing they'll need to ensure the restaurant's ongoing success. This book offers students, chefs, and entrepreneurs the skills and information they need to master every challenge and succeed in this highly competitive and rewarding industry.

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This is the ultimate guide to restaurant, successfully updated and revised/ Yes, hard work and a dream are indispensable, but success in the restaurant business requires an arsenal of skills and a vast body of knowledge and access to information. "The Restaurant: From Concept to Operation, Fourth Edition" provides it all. This easy-to-read guide shows aspiring restaurateurs how to conceive, open, and run any type of restaurant, from fast-food franchise to upscale dining room. This book will equip aspiring restaurant owners to master a broad variety of start-up issues and gain the solid footing they'll need to ensure the restaurant's ongoing success. You will discover how to choose a suitable concept, find a market gap to fill, develop business and marketing plans, and secure financial backing. Also, you'll learn how to select the perfect location, obtain the necessary permits, create a tantalizing menu, design the interior, and hire and train employees. You'll also acquire the all-important skill of turning first---time customers into regular patrons.
Special features of this new edition include: It offers an increased focus on the independent restaurant; it lays greater emphasis on restaurant business plans, including new exercises; it offers up-to-date restaurant profiles, including franchises and independents; it includes a new chapter on restaurant operations and control; and it also contains a new chapter on the latest restaurant technology. As part of the National Restaurant Association's Education Foundation's Pro Management. Certificate Program, this field-proven guide gives students, chefs, and entrepreneurs all of the skills and information they need to master every challenge and succeed in this highly competitive and rewarding industry.