How to Open and Run a Successful Restaurant
Product Description
If you’re thinking of opening a restaurant, you have a lot on your plate!
Dig into this comprehensive guide from successful restaurateur and author Christopher Egerton-Thomas, who dishes out good advice on everything from coming up with a winning concept, choosing a location, and equipping a kitchen to designing the menu, decorating the dining room, and managing a staff. Whether you want to open an upscale restaurant or a diner, a bistro or a burger joint, specialize in ethnic cuisine or go with an established franchise, How to Open and Run a Successful Restaurant, Third Edition gives you the essential information to do it right. The Third Edition of the celebrated soup-to-nuts classic is … More >>
How to Open and Run a Successful Restaurant
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September 8th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
I agree with the other review, just mundane chit chat. I wonder if the author has ever been in the back office of a real restaurant.
Rating: 1 / 5
September 8th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
I found this book got right to the core of starting a restaurant in a logical and easy to understand way. It contains a useful practical approaches to tasks that must be dealt with in a restaurant start-up. It also suggests ways to cope with if not avoid many typical problems, and presents numerous strategies for increasing chances of success. Very good and useful.
Rating: 5 / 5
September 8th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
While an occasionally entertaining read , it is essentially useless for anyone looking for a “how to” book. There are a few helpful hints in the book, but overall is a waste of time. I found myself hurrying to finish it to get a book that might be useful. At least it was cheap!
Rating: 2 / 5
September 9th, 2010 at 12:00 am
Wow, I bought the book thinking it would be a helpful how-to-guide, it was more like a BAD novel of someone who had spent too much time in the deep under belly of New York. Don’t waste your money or time on this one it’s not one bit helpful. Amazon[.com] sells better books for a successful restaurant, I know I found one and this one was not it!
Rating: 1 / 5
September 9th, 2010 at 12:06 am
Mostly trivial chit-chat on which liquors to purchase assorted with obvious stuff, like an item list including mustard! This book is not only parochially American (and this might perhaps justify the very heavy stress on beverage sales) but also essentially irrelevant to anybody who would like to start a gourmet restaurant, being instead perhaps useful to somebody who’d like to open a greasy spoon for heavy drinkers. If there were a money-back guarantee I sure would have used it, having made the mistake to purchase it.
Rating: 1 / 5