The Complete Idiot S Guide To Starting Your Own Restaurant

-- The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to Starting a Restaurant provides a strong formula for analyzing the potential business success of your restaurant venture. -- Providing a "reality" check, the book helps future restaurateurs, learn how to make orders, check inventories, hire personnel and choose menus. -- No branded competition or outstanding titles in the category. This book covers more than one aspect, replacing the need for two or more expensive books. A recent survey by the National Restaurant Association found restaurateurs to be hard-working, affluent and optimistic, but only 50% said they would do it all again. Hundreds of thousands of these business people work hard -- more than half put in a minimum of 60 hours per week. But despite the hard work, the restaurant business can be one of the most fickle and difficult businesses to break into. Why? People get into it for all the wrong reasons. Voila! The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to Starting a Restaurant is here to provide the recipe for success. How do you decide how much money it will take? When do you know you're failing -- or succeeding? If you're failing, when do you pull the plug? If you're succeeding, how do you successfully expand? Focusing on these kinds of business questions, this book takes a practical approach. Once you've decided to take the plunge, chef Mark Miller tells you all the secrets -- from inventory control to hiring kitchen help.

A recent survey by the National Restaurant Association found restaurateurs to be hard-working, affluent, and optimistic, but only 50 percent said they would do it all again. Despite the hard work, the restaurant business can be one of the most fickle and difficult businesses to break into. Why? People get into it for all the wrong reasons. Voil`! The Complete Idiot s Guide to Starting a Restaurant, Second Edition, is here to provide the recipe for success. How do you decide how much money it will take? When do you know you re succeeding - or failing? If you re succeeding, how do you successfully expand? Focusing on these kinds of business questions, this book takes a practical approach, giving the readers the nuts and bolts from deciding on a table layout to taking inventory of their bar.

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Make every hour you run a bar a happy one. You’re no idiot, of course. You know it takes more to run a bar than pouring beer and keeping peanuts on the tables. Whether you’re interested in serving drinks only or adding food or even entertainment, running a bar requires a lot of business savvy. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Starting and Running a Bar will show you exactly how to build and manage the business of your dreams. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: • The essentials of creating a business plan for the type of bar you want to own and operate. • The lowdown on legalities involved in serving alcohol and food—as well as offering live entertainment. • Business-saving advice on dealing with vendors, suppliers, and employees. • Marketing and advertising suggestions based on your budget.

Now with a CD-ROM! Newly revised for the ever-changing world of business, this book offers stress-free guidence for anyone who wants to turn a good idea into a good living. This edition also includes a CD-ROM featuring commonly requested forms and documents essential to business start-ups. € Completely revised and updated edition of this top-selling title € CD-ROM included, featuring commonly requested forms and documents € Nearly 1.5 million new businesses are formed in the U.S. each year, most of which are "small businesses" € One in 12 Americans will start his or her own business at some point, according to the Jan./Feb. 03 issue of The Atlantic Monthly

You’re no idiot, of course. Money’s always on your mind; if you’re not working to make more, you’re wondering where it all went. Will you have to give up movies and CDs to get your bank account to grow? Play it smart and you can have it all! Whether you’re saving for something big like college or wondering why you're always broke, this info-packed book has the answers you need. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Money for Teens can show you how to: • Stop the bleeding! Easy ways to get a grip on your expenses. • Make sense of bank and credit card statements. • Work wise and shop smart; get the most of your money. • Pay less for the things you buy—even designer labels! • Learn what it takes to be a teen entrepreneur.