Restaurant Success by the Numbers: A Money-Guy's Guide to

Restaurant Success by the Numbers: A Money-Guy's Guide to Opening the Next Hot Spot

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Great info for those thinking about opening an eatery or simply want to know more about the restaurant biz
Restaurateurs depend on the fact that we all have to eat, and we choose the restaurants that provide us what we want at prices we find attractive. Simple, huh? Far from it. This handy book provides the technical and financial materials that you will need if you are actively planning, dreaming about, or wondered about opening an eatery. I urge you to read this book before you commit yourself or your money to anything specific.Roger Fields is a CPA who has also opened successful restaurants, sold them, and closed a couple that didn't live up to expectations. His being a numbers guy is very helpful, because most restaurant people come at it from the food and aesthetic side of things. However, this is much more than a numbers book. I don't want to scare you off. The point is, you do need to think about the numbers because the better you get at them, the easier it will be to understand what you need to tweak and measure to give your major investment the best opportunity...
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September 9, 2007 (Saline, MI) | Helpful Votes: 34 | Rating: 5

Best book there is on the subject!
I am in the process of starting a sports bar and grille. I have every book I can get my hands on in reference to this topic (including those useless "complete idiot" and "dummy" books). Although this book is geared toward restaurants (and not bars), the book is priceless and chock full of powerful information that anyone going into the restaurant and/or bar business needs to have. The nice part about this book is that it is based off of the author's personal experience and not on a pile of theoretical clap-trap as in most other "how to" books. What I like most about this book is that it goes into detail about the author's individual "case study" experience in reference to a wide variety of directly important restaurant start-up and management topics that allow the reader of the book to use in his or her own restaurant and/or bar experience. If you can only get one book on starting a restaurant (or only have time to read one, as in my case), get this one. It's the only one you...
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May 15, 2010 (Valencia, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 17 | Rating: 5

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Ninety percent of all restaurants fail, and those that succeed happened upon that mysterious X factor, right? Wrong! A man of many hats-money-guy, restaurant owner, and restaurant consultant-Roger Fields shows how a restaurant can survive its first year, based on far more than luck, and keep diners coming back for many years to come. Featuring real-life restaurant start-up stories (including some of the author'¬?s own), this comprehensive how-to walks readers through the logistics of opening a restaurant: creating the concept, choosing a location, designing the menu, establishing ambiance, hiring staff, and, most important, turning a profit. Opening a restaurant isn'¬?t easy, but this realistic dreamer'¬?s guide helps set the table for lasting success. Top to learn more

Best restaurant book I've seen
Roger Fields knows his stuff, and he presents it in a smart, readable way. I've looked at many books on starting a restaurant and this is the best I've read. I'm a business guy, so I appreciated the details on estimating income and expenses, and forecasting break-even. The book also has lots of great information on developing a concept, getting financing, building out your space, developing the menu, and marketing to customers. I do wish there was more info on how to properly staff -- how to manage shifts, account for no-shows, etc.
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September 25, 2008 (Los Angeles, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 19 | Rating: 4

Restaurant Owners Uncorked: Twenty Owners Share Their Recipes for Success

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A Bible to Starting and Running a Successful Business, Restaurant or Not
Most of the so called "entreprenurial" books are filled with rhetoric from an author describing how he or she started a successful company. Most also contain a lot of what I like to call "fluff" and cliched advice. This Gem "Restaurant Owners Uncorked" contains e)none of the above.The author of this book is a skilled Software entrepreneur (First Research, ScheduleFly), but admirably and humbly never touts his own experiences or opinions. Instead, through brilliant open-ended and consultative questioning, Wil Brawley guides 20 other successful restaurant entrepreneurs down an exciting path in which they each share tactical advice and nuggets that any business executive will learn from (including myself). Each chapter is it's own journey including do's, dont's, and what it takes to win. If you are thinking of starting any business, this book is a must read. BEWARE - Once you begin it's impossible to put down, except to run and grab a highlighter or jump online and...
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March 15, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5

Direct answers to real time small business dilemmas
I followed the creation of this book through the weekly posting of excerpts that the Schedule-fly website Blog provided. As a small business owner NOT in the food industry I was initially surprised by the common sense approach and situational similarities my business experience shared with these folks being interviewed. I have a couple of friends that have started coffee shop and cupcake stores recently so I was excited to share this read and great insight with them. The pressure of location to hiring the right people to getting new folks through the door and then making sure they come back because they feel you have set yourself apart from the other choices that consumer has are difficult... To see these owners with such different backgrounds and approaches answer the important start-up questions unscripted reassured me in some areas and told me where we need to improve in others. Definitely recommend this book for all small business owners who like to think outside the box..
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March 15, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

Great Book, and Not Just For Restaurant Owners
I really enjoyed this book, and not because I own a restaurant or aspire to someday. I liked the book because every interview, without exception, contained valuable business advice that can be applied by any small business owner, regardless of industry.What also makes this book different is that it isn't full of Brawley's theories, rather the content comes "straight from the horse's mouth" (in this case, there are about 20 of them)... all seasoned veterans who share their successes, and in many cases their failures too.If you aspire to own a restaurant someday, I consider this required reading. If you like sitting down with really smart people over a cup of coffee or a beer, then this is right up your alley, because the book is essentially a collection of conversations with enlightened business people who know what they're talking about.Caution: Don't read this book on an empty stomach - you'll likely empty your fridge.
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March 15, 2011 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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Most restaurants fail. Yours can succeed. The owners in this book will tell you how... Restaurant Owners Uncorked is a collection of interviews with a diverse range of twenty owners, such as the legendary and colorful Phil Roberts, founder of Buca di Beppo and The Oceanaire Seafood Room; Scott Leibfried, a renowned, high-energy figure in the culinary industry who is part of the cast of the hit television show, “Hell's Kitchen”; and Chris Sommers, a former Silicon Valley technology executive who makes Chicago-style deep dish pizza (in St. Louis) so well that he was invited to the White House to cook it for President Obama and the first family. This book isn’t useful only for aspiring restaurant owners. It also provides practical advice for anybody who currently owns a restaurant or who simply wants to understand and be entertained by reading the business philosophies of twenty successful entrepreneurs. As you read these interviews, you’ll feel like you are sitting down with the owners over a cup of coffee or a beer, picking their brains and finding out what makes them tick. You’ll learn why restaurants don’t have to be risky at all, what chain restaurants’ collective Achilles heel is, why having a good CPA is as important as the food you put on the plate, and much more. Top to learn more

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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Hospitality News November 2002
This comprehensive and massive 600 page new book will show you step-by-step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful foodservice operation. The author has left no stone unturned in explaining the risky business of running a restaurant. Operators in the non-commercial segment as well as caterers, and really anyone in the food service industry will find this book very useful.The books nineteen 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 common mistakes that can doom a start-up. The new companion CD rom contains all the forms demonstrated in the book for easy use in a PDF format.There are literally hundreds of innovative ways demonstrated to streamline your restaurant business. Learn new ways to make the kitchen, bars, dining room, and front office run smoother and increase performance. Shut down waste, reduce...
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November 20, 2002 | Helpful Votes: 50 | Rating: 5

An All-Inclusive Easy to Use Handbook
The title may be a bit of an understatement - The Restaurant Manager's Handbook goes well beyond the basics of restaurant management, ultimately encompassing the entire scope of owning and running a full-service restaurant. In an industry where, as this book points out, a large percentage of ventures fail, a comprehensive resource like this can prove an invaluable tool for restaurant owners and managers, one that you'll return to again and again.The Restaurant Manager's Handbook runs a full 1,057 pages, making it a reference tome that covers all the bases - from "pre-owing" business planning and research to active operation and management practices . The guide offers hard-line business advice, but presents it in a way that's easy to read and eminently accessible to the novice restaurateur .Never written a business plan? It's in there. Don't know the first thing about effective public relations? It's in there. Need the lowdown on menu planning? Yep, that's in there too...
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July 21, 2008 | Helpful Votes: 18 | Rating: 5

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The multiple award-winning Restaurant Manager s Handbook is the best-selling book on running a successful food service. Now in the fourth 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 an expanded 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. This new, comprehensive 800-page book will show you step-by-step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful food service operation. The author has taken the risk out of running a restaurant business. Operators in the non-commercial segment as well as caterers and really 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. The new companion CD-ROM contains all the forms demonstrated in the book for easy use in a PDF format. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through finding a location that will bring success, learning how to draw up a winning business plan, how to buy and sell a restaurant, how to franchise, and how to set up basic cost-control systems. 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. You will learn how to keep bringing customers back, how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, manage and train employees as well as accessing thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. This Restaurant Manager s Handbook covers everything that many consultants charge thousands of dollars to provide. The extensive resource guide details more than 7,000 suppliers to the industry virtually a separate book on its own. This reference book is essential for professionals in the hospitality field as well as newcomers who may be looking for answers to cost-containment and training issues. Top to learn more

Good book.. but lets be honest.
After reading nearly all of this book I can tell you that this text is in fact helpful, however its the information quality that worries me. The 1000+ pages in this book provide the reader with a great breath of info, but with that said the depth of that information is about as deep as a shower. It has vision but lacks insight; has quantity but the discussion lacks quality.While the book covers every relevant topic regarding restaurants, if fails to offer any insight into how a restauranteur thought process actually goes and lacks the critical thinking I was hoping for. In the end it is basically a series of lists. It can be summed up as a series of things a restauranteur can do for his business... with no thought really given as to whether or not a restauranteur should do them. Also this textbook is more boring than most you've probably read as it lacks: Q & A, relevant stories or examples, graphical data, and other common textbook features that make reading more...
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September 22, 2010 (TUCSON, ARIZONA, US) | Helpful Votes: 55 | Rating: 3

Restaurant Success by the Numbers: A Money-Guy's Guide to Opening the Next Hot Spot

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Great info for those thinking about opening an eatery or simply want to know more about the restaurant biz
Restaurateurs depend on the fact that we all have to eat, and we choose the restaurants that provide us what we want at prices we find attractive. Simple, huh? Far from it. This handy book provides the technical and financial materials that you will need if you are actively planning, dreaming about, or wondered about opening an eatery. I urge you to read this book before you commit yourself or your money to anything specific.Roger Fields is a CPA who has also opened successful restaurants, sold them, and closed a couple that didn't live up to expectations. His being a numbers guy is very helpful, because most restaurant people come at it from the food and aesthetic side of things. However, this is much more than a numbers book. I don't want to scare you off. The point is, you do need to think about the numbers because the better you get at them, the easier it will be to understand what you need to tweak and measure to give your major investment the best opportunity...
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September 9, 2007 (Saline, MI) | Helpful Votes: 34 | Rating: 5

Best book there is on the subject!
I am in the process of starting a sports bar and grille. I have every book I can get my hands on in reference to this topic (including those useless "complete idiot" and "dummy" books). Although this book is geared toward restaurants (and not bars), the book is priceless and chock full of powerful information that anyone going into the restaurant and/or bar business needs to have. The nice part about this book is that it is based off of the author's personal experience and not on a pile of theoretical clap-trap as in most other "how to" books. What I like most about this book is that it goes into detail about the author's individual "case study" experience in reference to a wide variety of directly important restaurant start-up and management topics that allow the reader of the book to use in his or her own restaurant and/or bar experience. If you can only get one book on starting a restaurant (or only have time to read one, as in my case), get this one. It's the only one you...
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May 15, 2010 (Valencia, CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 17 | Rating: 5

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Ninety percent of all restaurants fail, and those that succeed happened upon that mysterious X factor, right? Wrong! A man of many hats-money-guy, restaurant owner, and restaurant consultant-Roger Fields shows how a restaurant can survive its first year, based on far more than luck, and keep diners coming back for many years to come. Featuring real-life restaurant start-up stories (including some of the author'¬?s own), this comprehensive how-to walks readers through the logistics of opening a restaurant: creating the concept, choosing a location, designing the menu, establishing ambiance, hiring staff, and, most important, turning a profit. Opening a restaurant isn'¬?t easy, but this realistic dreamer'¬?s guide helps set the table for lasting success.


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Best restaurant book I've seen
Roger Fields knows his stuff, and he presents it in a smart, readable way. I've looked at many books on starting a restaurant and this is the best I've read. I'm a business guy, so I appreciated the details on estimating income and expenses, and forecasting break-even. The book also has lots of great information on developing a concept, getting financing, building out your space, developing the menu, and marketing to customers. I do wish there was more info on how to properly staff -- how to manage shifts, account for no-shows, etc.
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September 25, 2008 (Los Angeles, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 19 | Rating: 4

Alex Toys Sweetheart Café Let's Play Restaurant Set

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Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details Convenient carrying case for take along fun Everything you need to run your own café Hours of pretend play fun Includes dishes, waitress apron and hat, guest check pad, menus, pretend food and lots more 40-piece Let's Play Restaurant set This item is eligible for FREE SHIPPING Sale Price: $21.90You Save $13.10 (37%) Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

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My niece loved it
I got this as a gift to my niece for her fourth birthday. My sister-in-law said my niece absolutely loved it. She opened it up, put the apron on right away, and started taking everyone's order. I would definitely reccommend this toy to anyone with a little girl that loves playing pretend.
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February 20, 2010 (texas) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5

Fantastic for pretend play
I actually got this for my SON who LOVES to play restaurant/waiter. We don't use the little hat and stuff (very girlie), but all the actual restaurant stuff (tray, pitcher, food, menus, placemats etc etc) is just fine for a boy, too. He LOVES this set, truly. It's just perfect. Not sure how long it'll hold his interest, but for right now, he loves it a lot. I suspect that every time he wants to place restaurant, he's going to come right to this set. It's very cute, and has just the right amount of stuff in. Enough food to make it feel like there are real choices in "ordering", and enough physical stuff like menus and placemats and napkins to make him feel like he's getting a customer all set up.My biggest complaint is that I wish they'd given more pages on the pad that the child uses to write down your order. It's adorable but there are VERY few sheets. I'm sure, though, that one could get a real one of those from Staples or somewhere...Anyhow - this is...
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March 3, 2011 (Casper, Wyomng) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

Great Gift
Ordered this for my daughter's 5th birthday, as she loves to play restaurant. Great toy....love all the extras in it. Very cute for little girls
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November 21, 2010 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

Product Description

• 40-piece Let's Play Restaurant set!
  
• Includes waitress apron & hat, guest check
  pad & pencils, and 2 each: credit cards,
  menus, cloth napkins, place mats, plates,
  cups, forks, knives, spoons.
  
• Lots of pretend plastic food for serving.
  
• Convenient carrying case for
  take-me-along fun.

Restaurant Story

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Got a Question for me? Powered by Aol.com   Product Details Invite your Facebook friends to be your neighbors Customize and choose a top-class menu to suit your tastes Exchange secret recipes with your friends Showcase your restaurant and earn extra-special tips from friends Design and build a unique restaurant with stunning variety and creativity Dear visitor! This website has been designed to help you find THE BEST PRICE. When you are ready to buy, your payment will be processed through one of the most TRUSTED SUPPLIERS directly. Thank you for shopping with us!

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Addicting!!!!
I love this game! You should really try it! I also suggest Bakery Story, Fashon Story, and Farm Story! :-)
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March 5, 2012 | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5