The restaurant manager's handbook : how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful food service operation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Douglas Robert, 1960-
Format: Software eBook
Language:English
Published: Ocala, Fla. : Atlantic Pub., [2007]
Edition:Rev. 4th ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Successful pre-opening activities for a restaurant venture
  • Basics of buying or leasing a restaurant
  • Creating a successful business plan
  • Steps to secure financing
  • How to analyze and invest in a restaurant franchise
  • Effective restaurant layout & remodeling
  • Basic cost control for restaurants
  • Profitable menu planning
  • Dietary and nutritional guidelines
  • Choose the proper equipment
  • Purchasing
  • Inventory, receiving, and storage
  • Food buying techniques
  • Food cost controls
  • Successful kitchen management and control procedures
  • Essentials of food safety, HACCP, and sanitation
  • Safety and risk management
  • Successful bar layout, set up, and location
  • Bar service, precautions, and legalities
  • Successful wine management
  • Management of operational costs and supplies
  • Computers and food service operations
  • Managing the dining room and waitstaff
  • Increase order amount and your bottom line
  • Finding, recruiting, and hiring great employees
  • Training employees
  • Handling employees tips
  • Motivate your employees
  • Daily leadership and teambuilding
  • Control labor cost without sacrificing service or quality
  • Public relations for your restaurant
  • How to keep customers coming back for more
  • Promote your restaurant on the Internet
  • Add catering to your restaurant
  • Internal bookkeeping
  • Successful budgeting and profit planning
  • How to prepare the monthly audit and cost projections
  • Perform an internal audit on restaurant and bar operations
  • Basics of selling a restaurant
  • Additional materials.