The Restaurant Manager's Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Food Service Operation Revised Fourth Edition - With Companion CD-ROM Douglas Robert Brown

Douglas Robert Brown

ISBN 10: 0910627975 / ISBN 13: 9780910627979

Published by Atlantic Publishing Group Inc., 2007

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The Restaurant Manager's Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Food Service Operation Revised Fourth Edition - With Companion CD-ROM In englischer Sprache. pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Restaurant Manager's Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Food Service Operation Revised Fourth Edition - With Companion CD-ROM Douglas Robert Brown
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0910627975
• ISBN 13: 9780910627979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2007.
• Condition: gut
• Weight: 2000 grams

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Synopsis

The multiple award-winning Restaurant Manager s Handbook is the best-selling book on running a successful food service operation. Now in the 4th completely revised edition, nine new chapters detail restaurant layout, new equipment, principles for creating a safer work environment, and new effective techniques to interview, hire, train, and manage employees. We provide a new chapter on tips and IRS regulations as well as guidance for improved management, new methods to increase your bottom line by expanding the restaurant to include on- and off-premise catering operations. We ve added new chapters offering food nutrition guidelines and proper employee training.

The Fourth Edition of the Restaurant Manager s Handbook is an invaluable asset to any existing restaurant owner or manager as well as anyone considering a career in restaurant management or ownership. All existing chapters have new and updated information. This includes extensive material on how to prepare a restaurant for a potential sale. There is even a section on franchising. You will find many additional tips to help restaurant owners and managers learn to handle labor and operational expenses, rework menus, earn more from better bar management, and introduce up-scale wines and specialties for profit. You will discover an expanded section on restaurant marketing and promotion plus revised accounting and budgeting tips.

This new edition includes photos and information from leading food service manufacturers to enhance the text. Anyone in the food service industry will rely on this book in everyday operations. Its 28 chapters cover the entire process of a restaurant start-up and ongoing management in an easy-to-understand way, pointing out methods to increase your chances of success and showing how to avoid the many mistakes arising from being uninformed and inexperienced that can doom a restaurateur s start-up.

You will have at your fingertips profitable menu planning, sample restaurant floor plans and diagrams, successful kitchen management, equipment layout and planning, food safety, Hazardous and Critical Control Point (HACCP) information, and successful beverage management. Learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money and get brand new IRS tip-reporting requirements, accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning development. You will be able to generate high profile public relations and publicity, initiate low cost internal marketing ideas, and low- and no-cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales. The companion CD-ROM is included with the print version of this book; however is not available for download with the electronic version.  It may be obtained separately by contacting Atlantic Publishing Group at <span>sales@atlantic-pub.com</span>

Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company president s garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice.  Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.

About the Author

Winner of the Prestigious Benjamin Franklin 2003 Book Award for Best Business Book of the Year: The Restaurant Manager's Handbook, Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc. Named in honor of America's most cherished publisher/printer, the Benjamin Franklin Award recognizes excellence in independent publishing. Top practitioners in each field classify books by genre and judge them on editorial content and design. Writers Notes Magazine Best Business book. Runner-Up Writer s Digest International Book Awards. 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.