Starting a Small Restaurant - Softcover
Detailed advice, sober but encouraging, from a successful restaurant entrepreneur.
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Daniel Miller is a founder of the successful small restaurant The Grey Fox Inn in Cambria, California.
Review:
"An extraordinary book in many ways-a unique and tough hands-on guide to doing it. No other comparable book exists." -- The Next Whole Earth Catalog
"Light and digestible, Miller's explicit recipe includes spicy tips." -- In Business
"Quality is the goal in all the large matters and small details Miller reviews. He has thought of everything you should think about before you open your doors." -- Country Journal
"This is a splendid book-cautious, thorough, and gilded with flashes of lively good humor that never would be found in a food industry operations manual." -- Washington Post
Starting A Small Restaurant sets forth everything necessary to establish and successful operate a small restaurant including: finding the location that can bring success; how to make up a menu and forecast income; equipment auctions and dealers; restaurant red tape and regulations, designing a kitchen for efficiency and safety; dining room design and decor; step-by-step analysis of preparing and serving a typical restaurant meal; handling the difficult customer; staffing and personnel management; getting supplied with the best products and services; cleanup and maintenance; advertising and public relations; prices and profits (figuring your investment and return); handling restaurant emergencies; and how computer systems that can save time and money. Starting A Small Restaurant is the best "how to" manual available to aspiring restauranteurs and is "must" reading for anyone contemplating opening any kind of restaurant in any type of location. Practical, comprehensive, easy-to-read, very well organized and laid out, Starting A Small Restaurant sets the standard against which "how to" self-help business books must be judged. -- Midwest Book Review
"Light and digestible, Miller's explicit recipe includes spicy tips." -- In Business
"Quality is the goal in all the large matters and small details Miller reviews. He has thought of everything you should think about before you open your doors." -- Country Journal
"This is a splendid book-cautious, thorough, and gilded with flashes of lively good humor that never would be found in a food industry operations manual." -- Washington Post
Starting A Small Restaurant sets forth everything necessary to establish and successful operate a small restaurant including: finding the location that can bring success; how to make up a menu and forecast income; equipment auctions and dealers; restaurant red tape and regulations, designing a kitchen for efficiency and safety; dining room design and decor; step-by-step analysis of preparing and serving a typical restaurant meal; handling the difficult customer; staffing and personnel management; getting supplied with the best products and services; cleanup and maintenance; advertising and public relations; prices and profits (figuring your investment and return); handling restaurant emergencies; and how computer systems that can save time and money. Starting A Small Restaurant is the best "how to" manual available to aspiring restauranteurs and is "must" reading for anyone contemplating opening any kind of restaurant in any type of location. Practical, comprehensive, easy-to-read, very well organized and laid out, Starting A Small Restaurant sets the standard against which "how to" self-help business books must be judged. -- Midwest Book Review
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- PublisherHarvard Common Pr
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0916782379
- ISBN 13 9780916782375
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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