The Non-Commercial Food Service Manager's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Military, Prisons, Schools, And Churches With Companion CD-ROM

Shri L. Henkel; Douglas Robert Brown

ISBN 10: 0910627819 / ISBN 13: 9780910627818

Published by Atlantic Publishing Company (FL), 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Non-Commercial Food Service Manager's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Military, Prisons, Schools, And Churches With Companion CD-ROM
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company (FL)
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0910627819
• ISBN 13: 9780910627818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

Finally, the non-commercial food service director has a comprehensive manual to aid them in their day-to-day operations. This massive 600-page new book will show you step by step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful food service operation. The author has left no stone unturned. The book s 19 chapters cover the entire process from startup to ongoing management in an easy-to-understand way, pointing out methods to increase your chances of success, and showing how to avoid many common mistakes. The new companion CD-ROM contains all the forms in the book in PDF format. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through basic cost-control systems, menu planning, sample floor plans and diagrams, successful kitchen management, equipment layout and planning, food safety and HACCP, dietary considerations, special patient/client needs, learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money, learn how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, manage and train employees, accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning development, as well as thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. The extensive resource guide details over 7,000 suppliers to the industry; this directory could be a separate book on its own. This covers everything for which many companies pay consultants thousands of dollars.

About the Author

Douglas R. Brown is a best-selling author in the area of food service management, having worked for both national chains and independent restaurants, as well as providing consulting services. He is the author of several new books and numerous articles on food service management. In 1982 he established Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc., and today the company is the leader in providing training materials including books, videos, posters, tools and software to the food service industry. About the Co-Author: Shri Henkel has 22 years of business management and 15 years of marketing experience. She is the award-winning author of two other Atlantic titles, including How to Open a Financially Successful Pizza & Sub Restaurant and 365 Foolish Mistakes Smart Managers Make Every Day.