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# The Restaurant Manager's Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Food Service Operation 4th Edition - With Companion CD-ROM

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## Description

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 sales@atlantic-pub.com 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.

Review: Much more informative than I ever thought - I purchased this handbook as I figured it could show me more tips about being a better manager. This handbook is so full of information I had never thought of. It helps you looks at all the different aspects of a restaurant. It goes over the basics of buying or leasing a restaurant, creating a succesful business plan, effective layout and remodeling, profitable menu planning, dissusses wine and food selections. I was so surprised so see to what degree this book covered. I learned more from little items which checklists included to where it would be hard for anyone not to be a better owner of a restaurant, let alone know how each employee should be acting, and what jobs they need to do. Cleaning schedules ... yes, I was overwhelmed by this book and all the references it provides if you need further assistance. I use the CD and book so often ... and HIGHLY recommend it to anyone with a business, or starting one.
Review: A wonderfully need superfluous Book!!!!!! - All I can say is truly the nuts and bolts with running a restaurant business, myself owner of a family restaurant 60+ years old bringing up to date with paperwork and forms especially the software aspect having someof these key elements in place is really a life saver great book for those of us with successful business and not alot of time thank god for the index because its a massive book with a chock full of information, for those that don't like the book I would lovfe to see their shop quite curious but its a lot of info, to say this book is for a novice, no its not, it will prevent the novice from making bad decisions right off the bat but the book to me in my opinion is for an established restaurateur. The only thing that I would like to see is more formulas. Other than that great book.

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #1,398,887 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,300 in Hospitality, Travel & Tourism (Books) #1,333 in Leadership Training #9,219 in Business Management (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 171 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Much more informative than I ever thought
*by C***A on December 22, 2013*

I purchased this handbook as I figured it could show me more tips about being a better manager. This handbook is so full of information I had never thought of. It helps you looks at all the different aspects of a restaurant. It goes over the basics of buying or leasing a restaurant, creating a succesful business plan, effective layout and remodeling, profitable menu planning, dissusses wine and food selections. I was so surprised so see to what degree this book covered. I learned more from little items which checklists included to where it would be hard for anyone not to be a better owner of a restaurant, let alone know how each employee should be acting, and what jobs they need to do. Cleaning schedules ... yes, I was overwhelmed by this book and all the references it provides if you need further assistance. I use the CD and book so often ... and HIGHLY recommend it to anyone with a business, or starting one.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A wonderfully need superfluous Book!!!!!!
*by B***S on March 30, 2011*

All I can say is truly the nuts and bolts with running a restaurant business, myself owner of a family restaurant 60+ years old bringing up to date with paperwork and forms especially the software aspect having someof these key elements in place is really a life saver great book for those of us with successful business and not alot of time thank god for the index because its a massive book with a chock full of information, for those that don't like the book I would lovfe to see their shop quite curious but its a lot of info, to say this book is for a novice, no its not, it will prevent the novice from making bad decisions right off the bat but the book to me in my opinion is for an established restaurateur. The only thing that I would like to see is more formulas. Other than that great book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ holy cow...this is awesome!
*by M***C on July 31, 2008*

Want to open a restaurant? This is certainly THE book you need. It covers every little detail - from the best skin protecting gloves your prep cooks should use to the type of silverware you should have based on your restaurant's style. It's like a restaurant bible, I just got mine today when I was about to step out to the gym, and alas, this arrives. Boy was I tempted to bring it with me and plop it on top of the treadmill while I exercised, but I didn't want to get strange stares hahaha. Overall, it's an excellent excellent book. All of my questions are being answered. Highly recommended!

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