The Restaurant Manager’s Success Chronicles: Insider Secrets and Techniques Food Service Managers Use Every Day to Make Millions
Restaurants are one of the most frequently started businesses, yet they have one of the highest failure rates. A study from the Ohio State University reports the restaurant failure rate is between 57 percent and 61 percent after only three years. Don’t be a statistic on the wrong side; plan for success. There are many books and courses on restaurant operation; this is the only book that will provide you with insider secrets. We asked the successful restaurant owners and operators who make their living on the restaurant floor—and they talked. This new book will give you real-life examples of how successful restaurant operators avoid the pitfalls and thrive. The information is so useful that you can read a page and put the idea into action—today! Learn the most efficient ways to bring customers in and have them return, how to up-sell, cost control ideas, oversights to avoid, and how to steer clear of disappointment.
We spent thousands of hours interviewing, e-mailing, and communicating with hundreds of today’s most successful restaurateurs. This book not only chronicles their achievements, but is a compilation of their secrets and proven successful ideas. If you are interested in learning hundreds of hints, tricks, and secrets on how to make money (or more money) with your restaurant, then this book is for you.
Instruction is great, but advice from experts is even better, and the experts chronicled in this book are earning millions. This new exhaustively researched book will provide you with a jam-packed assortment of innovative ideas that you can put to use today. This book gives you the proven strategies, innovative ideas, and actual case studies to help you sell more with less time and effort.
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The Restaurant Manager’s Success Chronicles
4.5/5 Stars
This book provides all of the information necessary for a person who is looking to open a restaurant or join the restaurant management industry. It discusses everything from the technical aspects of hiring, advertising, and food service, to offering tips on customer relations and finding a niche market. It is not designed for someone who is just looking to be hired at someone else’s restaurant, or for a casual reader, but for someone who is serious about being successful running their own food service operation, this book is a great resource for learning and understanding the behind-the-scenes points that keep a place running.
The book offers interviews with successful restaurant proprietors, which allows the reader to see examples of ways that others have been able to make money with their businesses, but, by far, the most useful part of the book contains the practical information necessary for restaurant operation. Many other books tell people how to manage effectively, not to mention that these skills can be learned through experience, but along with this management information, The Success Chronicles gives invaluable tips about the best ways to attract customers, keep reliable employees, serve the best and freshest foods, and, generally, be the most profitable; all of which is information that most restaurant entrepreneurs have to learn through practice, often resulting in failed businesses.
If you are interested in opening a restaurant, I would recommend this book because it forces you to think about the business aspects of the industry that are often not given their full consideration. From deciding whether or not to serve alcohol, to information about filing taxes, having this book as a reference in your first months and years of business will come in handy countless times. Instead of jumping into the work blindly, read this book first, you will not regret it.
Comment by Richard Hutchinson — May 20, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
This book is an excellent read. If you’re a novice at future’s trading, this is a must buy book. It contains everything from how the markets were originally set up, to creating an investment strategy of your own.
Mary Holihan does a superb job of explaining what a commodity is and how different countries and factors play a role in the price of goods. This book is honest, and well written. I recommend “The Complete Guide to Investing in Commodity Trading and Futures” to anyone looking to start trading for the first time.
Rating: 4 stars out of 5
Comment by Michael Moore — May 28, 2008 @ 11:42 am
As a current or future restaurant manager how can you become the best of the best? The only way to do this is ask those who have already succeeded and reached the pinnacle of their career. No restaurant manager will ever know it all regardless of how fine a restaurant they work in. Wherever you are in the world you will find that the successful restaurant manager will have learnt from the successes and failures of those already in the business.
Angela C. Adams has done all of the hard work for you and gained the advice of those who have already successfully established themselves in the industry. The result of Angela’s hard work is a compelling book which will let you gain an insight into what it takes to succeed and most importantly you will gain a glimpse into the secrets of restaurant success. As the advice not only comes from internationally acclaimed restaurant managers and includes advice from restaurant managers from all genres of the industry it provides information which can be used by restaurant managers of all levels of experience.
This book not only provides you with step by step instructions on all you need to know as a restaurant manager but also provides you with the success stories of those who have succeeded by following these instructions. This book gets a four out of five for the information and encouragement that it provides.
Rating : 4 Stars out of 5
Comment by Ben Doman — June 3, 2008 @ 6:39 pm
If you’re only dreaming of managing your own restaurant, stop dreaming! Pick up this book, read it, absorb, and then DO something about it! The stories are not only inspiring but offer practical advice and information to help you start and stay motivated throughout. The restaurant business is not for everyone, and it’s better you read a book like this to get an idea of what it takes to succeed in this industry before you start shopping for napkins. The writing is very clear, straightforward and easy to read. It’s a great insight into the ‘backstage’ of the restauranting business. I like how there are helpful forms at the back, after all the profiles, to give you something factual to understand, along with the inspirational stories.
Rating: 4 stars out of 5!
Comment by Nchiu — June 5, 2008 @ 1:53 am
“The Restaurant Manager’s Success Chronicles” provides an interesting insight through the 25 profiles showcased within the first half of the book. Not only are 25 successful restaurant managers profiled, their restaurants are as well. Based on questionnaires sent out by the book’s author, each profile gives each managers background, how they got started, what they do to have things run smoothly, what advise they not only would have liked when they started but also the best advise they received, and, in most of the profiles, advice for those who are either starting in management or are thinking about it. Each manager’s restaurant is also profiled through what age demographic is most likely to dine there, what type of food it offers, and its hours.
The second half of the book summarizes the key points of the first half. This is shown through what the managers look for in their staff, how to hire and train new employees, most effective ways to interact with customers, what is needed for the restaurant with regard to equipment, food and beverages, marketing, safety, and, most importantly, how to become better managers.
The Appendices at the end of the book also provide useful information and round the book out nicely. Some of the information presented includes an alphabetical listing of the featured restaurants, restaurant industry facts, restaurant association listings from each state, and a listing of industry-related websites.
All around interesting and informative for anyone who may already be in restaurant management, is just starting in the field, or is considering going into the field.
4 out of 5 stars
Comment by Gabby Raines — June 19, 2008 @ 2:46 pm