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Your First Restaurant: An Essential Guide – Completely Revised and Updated: How to plan, research, analyze, finance, open, and operate your own wildly successful eatery Kindle Edition

by Daniel Boardman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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If you are thinking about or anywhere in the process of opening a restaurant, Your First Restaurant: An Essential Guide will be invaluable to you. The author, Daniel Boardman, embarked on a career as a restaurateur in middle age, with no prior restaurant experience and not much capital. Within four years he opened three original and quirky restaurants, each of which has become a thriving success.

In Your First Restaurant: An Essential Guide, Boardman draws upon his experience as a restaurateur, nearly 30 years of experience in negotiating commercial real estate leases and sales, and a decade of teaching real estate investment analysis and decision-making to show you how to:

Accurately estimate the amount of capital required for your first restaurant (it’s probably less than you think) and how to raise it.
Select your restaurant’s ideal location and negotiate the optimal real estate lease or purchase for it.
Develop a creative, winning restaurant concept that is a natural extension of yourself and a perfect match for your customers.
Market – using low-cost, guerilla-style techniques – staff, source supplies for, grow, and continually refine your first restaurant.
Identify all the things that could doom your restaurant and how to avoid them.

However, this book is not for everyone. It completely lacks fluff, hype, and “just believe in yourself” rah-rah encouragement. If that is what you are looking for, you won’t find it here.

What this book does offer is a solid framework for beginning with what is often a vague idea and proceeding, step by step, to research, plan, evaluate, open, and operate a solidly successful first restaurant. If you are serious about opening your dream restaurant, this is the book for you.

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Daniel Boardman received his B.A. in architecture in 1983 from the University of New Mexico. Shortly thereafter he launched a career in commercial real estate brokerage, and spent the next thirty years negotiating restaurant and other commercial property sales and leases. In the second half of his real estate career Daniel expanded his focus to include real estate education, authoring and instructing numerous accredited real estate-related courses. He was recruited by the prestigious CCIM institute of Chicago and spend a decade instructing courses in advanced real estate investment analysis and decision making in major cities throughout the US and Mexico. Seeking a new challenge, in 2011 Daniel purchased a former cleaning services building, remodeled it, and in 2012 opened his first restaurant, Tia Betty Blue's, which has enjoyed double-digit sales growth each of the last five years. Two years later Daniel opened his second restaurant Tia B's La Waffleria, which was an immediate hit . In 2016 Daniel opened his third restaurant, El Cotorro, which has enjoyed great reviews and popularity. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N5TN7VX
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 26, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 396 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 234 pages

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gZaller

Essential Wisdom from an Expert

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2022

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I almost didn't buy this book because of criticism that it didn't contain enough details. This could be no further from the truth. The book is filled with wise instruction for having a prosperous and profitable restaurant. Reading and understanding the advice given here may well make the difference between a highly successful restaurant or a failed one.

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Evaldas Baniulis

Very insightful book

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2020

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Actually, I changed the review from 3 to 5 stars. While it’s not the most interesting book to read, however the book is written in extreme detail that is very valuable. Not an entertaining book, but the info inside is worth every penny and every second!

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Z. Henry

Great insights for someone like me

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2018

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It had some decent 8nsights based on the autbor's personal experiences. I like that he directed a portion of it directly at older folks making a career change...that's me. I am an ex-pat in Asia, so have some unique issues not encountered in the States, and some stuff isn't applicable to me over here, but overall I found the book helpful getting me off the ground and avoiding some pitfalls! I plan to do a re-read if I can find the time! I am in the 15 to 16 hours workday phase...but loving every minute of it!

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Detailed

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2021

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Super helpful and clear details ❤️

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isabella

It's helpful but the typos are a bit embarrassing

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2021

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There are so many grammatical and stylistic typos in this book that it actually distracts from the content. Surprised it got published in this condition.

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2020

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Very interesting and to the point. Gives a lot of insight for newbies in the business (like myself)

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Abiodun

How to run a successful restaurant.

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2019

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The knowledge and experience of the author. There was nothing I didn't like about the book. Thank you for sharing. Invaluable information useful for anyone.

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Marynutbar

Good information, somewhat broad and general but still helpful.

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2017

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Information in some sections was broad , a bit more specific information would have been nice. Lots of helpful tips and ideas. Real world comments on how to look at things and what to do or avoid. The digital version needs proof reading and editing. There are a lot of spelling and grammatical errors, almost enough to seem unprofessional while reading about marketing and credibility. It was a bit distracting but overall a good read.

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Brigo

A wealth of good information.

Reviewed in Canada on October 11, 2018

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Great content. Well written. Well laid out and organized. Clearly the author knows what he writes about. Anyone who has any aspirations to run a restaurant needs to read this. The low price does not reflect a low value in content. Buy it!

Beautiful Store

Why and how to make it right BOOK.

Reviewed in Canada on March 4, 2019

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I love it really, because you'll need it as guide book before you start your own Restaurants, Stop nobody knows everything, so you'll need to know many details and HOW TO ..Book

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