How to Open Your Own Restaurant: A Guide for Entrepreneurs [Mass Market Paperback]

Richard Ware (Author), James Rudnick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1996

Do restaurants make you think of tempting dishes served in a cozy, intimate setting? Or fine dining in elegant surroundings? It takes a lot more than culinary skill and appealing ambience to open a restaurant. In this invaluable guide, coomplete with charts, facts, and figures, Richrd Ware and James Rudnick draw upon years of successful experience to tell you everything you need to know about: Money: How much you need to start up; how to find sources for funding; step-by-step plans for forecasting expenses; what you should know about the hidden costs Location: How to research the competition; whether to seek a residential or commercial setting; how to build a customer profile; revealing case studies and critiques Design and Operation: Floor plans and seating; constructing; inventory; twenty steps to opening Hiring: How to find the experts; free advice as well as professional assistance; how to establish rules for your day-to-day staff; when to use advertising. Don't even think about starting a restaurant without first reading How to Open Your Own Restaurant

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition (June 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140147896
• ISBN-13: 978-0140147896
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #228,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #37 in Books > Business & Investing > Small Business & Entrepreneurship > Hospitality Businesses

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87 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Authoritative and complete; A must read!, December 11, 1998

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This review is from: How to Open Your Own Restaurant: A Guide for Entrepreneurs (Mass Market Paperback)

From myths to realities; This authoritative book covers all the planning, organizing, and operating procedures which are necessary and crucial to a successful restaurant venture.

While many people desire to build the restaurant of their dreams, there are important issues that need to be considered if success is to be achieved. Too often sheer determination is not enough. This business relies on too many individuals for one person,(you), to see things right. This book provides the insight and information necessary to provoke serious thinking regarding whether or not to actually pursue the dream of restaurant ownership.

This book contains several anecdotes of real life situations as well as charts, explanations of record keeping, and financial statements. My favorite parts involve the exhaustive lists of what one should seriously analyze, research, and consider before beginning the venture process.

However, heed this caution; This book may in fact dissuade you from ever opening your own restaurant. But if you decide to go ahead with your dream, this book is just what you need to help prepare you for the realities of this time engrossing, yet rewarding business.

32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VERY beginning must read, August 25, 2000

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J. A. Maucieri "staynegative" (Johnstown, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Open Your Own Restaurant: A Guide for Entrepreneurs (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was great, in my opinion, because i have NO clue.I'm sure for anyone w/ more business operation knowledge it lends less assistance.

I was glad to find a extreme basic book that gets me up to speed and lets me know the basics before i move into the next and intermediate level reading on this topic.

It's cheap - and it presents information that COULD change your mind or confirm your ideas ... good investment :)

43 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Yow to Open your Own Restaurant...A Loser of a Guide, June 3, 2000

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John Miles Lurie, M.D. - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Open Your Own Restaurant: A Guide for Entrepreneurs (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a very skinny book written by two men who obviously have restaurant experience, but who have very poor writing/communications skills. This book is not a guide to setting up the spreadsheets necessary to open a restaurant. It is doubtful that the authors even know how to open up Lotus or Excel. The amount of essential items left out are humongous. Watch yourself! Not a recommendable expenditure of any money whatsoever on this crummy attempt at producing a useful "book". Rating: eight onions.