Start Your Own Catering Busines (Start Your Own Business) [Paperback]

Prentice Hall (Author)

Book Description

Series: Start Your Own Business | Publication Date: October 4, 1996

Each title in the "Start Your Own Business" series provides a blueprint for succeeding in a different business and offers advice on how to identify your best market, secure adequate financing, and how to be your own boss. This title focuses on starting a catering business

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Press (October 4, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0136033091
• ISBN-13: 978-0136033097
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #890,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #88 in Books > Business & Investing > Small Business & Entrepreneurship > Hospitality Businesses

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful, August 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Start Your Own Catering Busines (Start Your Own Business) (Paperback)

I was looking for a catering book at my local book store & this was the only one they had. I paged through it & it was terrible. I agree with the other reviewer that this was a very basic book. I was looking for more information on the requirement of having a commercial kitchen in California. While I didn't necessarily expect to find specific state information, all the book said was you may be required to get a commercial kitchen. No resources on *where* I would find that information or who I would contact. And when I looked at the business card section, all it said was to get business cards & stationary with your business logo - duh. It sounded to me like this was a book written by someone who might have general business start up experience, but no catering business experience. It was very generic.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The authors should be embarrassed., January 23, 2004

By 

Eric Grundle (Whitefish, Montana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Start Your Own Catering Busines (Start Your Own Business) (Paperback)

This is the worst "how-to" book I have ever read. To criticize it, I wouldn't even know where to start except to say that it's useless. All of the "information" is either terribly inane and/or known to everyone over the age of ten, or is completely irrelevent. For instance, it's discuss whether you should get money from Venture Capitalists for a catering business(!) and then ten pages are spent informing you about the computer you'll need, including a little bit about keyboards and monitors!

I want my money back.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst book ever in the whole world, May 23, 2002

By 

S. Alexander "salex97" (Livonia, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Start Your Own Catering Busines (Start Your Own Business) (Paperback)

I cannot believe I spent money on this!
The book covers the concepts in starting a small business in a very basic format. I mean very basic, with thoughts shared on "you might need a computer" and "you will need determination to make it."
I wanted to find out about laws, kitchen standards, good practices for timing, advice on finding leased goods for large parties. Instead, the book is riddled with lines such as "you can lease equipment, or you can buy it."