The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Restaurant

by Howard Cannon

The recipe for a successful restaurant?now revised ? In this revised edition, aspiring restaurateurs will find everything they need to know to open a successful restaurant, including choosing a concept and location, creating a business plan, finding the cash, and much more. New content includes information on tips, tip-outs, and reporting for the entire staff, choosing the best POS system, setting up a bar and managing the wine list, and making the bottom line look good long-term.
-Restaurants are a high-risk venture, but starting a bar or restaurant is still one of the most popular new business ventures (Cornell Univ/Mich State)
-Overall industry sales are projected to hit $476 billion for 2005, a 4.9% increase
-The industry employs a workforce of 12.2 million in more than 900,000 restaurants nationwide (National Restaurant Assn.)

Genres: Amazon, Business

368 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 2001

About the author

Howard Cannon is the author of four books; including, his most recognized books to date, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting Your Own Restaurant© (2001) and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting a Restaurant© - second edition (2005), published world-wide by Penguin Group (USA), Penguin Group (Canada), Penguin Books (England), Penguin Ireland, Penguin Group (Australia), Penguin Books (India), Penguin Group (New Zealand), Penguin Books (South Africa), Alpha Books, Pearson Books, and Pearson Education. His books are cataloged in the Library of Congress of the United States and can be found in bookstores; such as, Barnes and Noble, Books-a-Million, Wal-Mart, Amazon, and other fine retailers, libraries, and educational institutions in more than 76 countries around the globe. Howard Cannon has given hundreds of seminars, keynote speeches, and interviews and has been published in countless magazines, newspapers, blogs and websites worldwide – having been featured on such highly-regarded television, radio, and print mediums as Anderson Cooper, The Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, Fox News, CBS Studios, MSNBC, Canadian Public Radio, My Foodservice News, QSR Magazine, The Independent Restaurateur, Bar & Nightclub Magazine, Pizza Today, and others. Cannon has provided content for an astonishing number of local, regional, national and international print publications, as well. His social media impact reaches far and wide; as he has tens of thousands of followers on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube, and has had more than 150,000 people view his YouTube seminars pertaining to restaurants and bars. Howard Cannon is the CEO and Founder of Restaurant Expert Witness and Restaurant Operations Institute, Inc. Since 1987, his experience in state and federal court cases pertaining to restaurant, bar, food and beverage related matters, with both Plaintiffs and Defendants, is unmatched; as he has had clients and projects in every state of the United States, as well as, Canada, Mexico, England, France, Asia, India, Australia, Jamaica, Haiti, and the Philippines – covering nearly every type and style of restaurant and bar - from fast food to fine dining, and encompassing nearly every imaginable food and beverage available around the globe. Restaurant Expert Witness, Howard Cannon can be reached at 800.300.5764 or RestaurantExpertWitness.com.

Reviews

[Layne]

This book is well written, and easy to read. Also, it is packed full of great advice and ideas. It really makes you think about all the aspects of opening and running a restaurant. I love to cook, so in the back of my mind I have always thought about opening my own place. This book gave me some great ideas.

[Cara]

Wanting to do some research in view of writing fiction, this was geared more toward a chain or fast-food than I would like. But lots of helpful tips and things that I hadn’t thought of for making up my lovely restaurant in the world of fiction.

[Truthequalscharacter]

Great Book and very informative!