Resources: Books

In addition to the titles in the Restaurant.org Store, we've partnered with Amazon.com to bring you a wide range of books about what it takes to run a restaurant.

• Starting a Restaurant	• General Business and Financing Guides
• Starting a bar	• Management
• Service	• Restaurant Design
• Restaurant marketing	• Food safety
• Catering	• Franchising
• Restaurant/food history	• Food dictionaries/encyclopedias
• Restaurant careers

General Business and Financing Guides books on Amazon.com

The Successful Business Plan: Secrets and Strategies, 4th ed.
Rhonda Abrams Palo Alto, CA: Planning Shop, 2003

How to Get a Business Loan (Without Signing Your Life Away)
Joseph R. Mancuso New York: Prentice-Hall Press, 1993

The Food Service Professional's Guide to Controlling Restaurant and Food Service Food Costs
Douglas R. Brown Ocala, FL: Atlantic Publishing Company, 2002

The Restaurant Manager's Handbook
Douglas R. Brown Ocala, FL: Atlantic Publishing Company, 2003

Financing Your Small Business
James Burk and CRichard P. Lehmann Naperville, IL: Sphinx Publishing, 2004

Principles of Food, Beverage, and Labor Cost Controls, 8th ed.
Paul R. Dittmer and J. Desmond Keefe Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2005

The Food Service Professional's Guide to Controlling Restaurant and Food Service Labor Costs
Sharon L. Fullen Ocala, FL: Atlantic Publishing Company, 2002

Analyzing and Controlling Foodservice Costs: A Managerial and Technology Approach, 5th ed.
James Keiser et. al Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006

The Food Service Professional's Guide to Controlling Restaurant & Food Service Operating Costs
Cheryl Lewis Ocala, FL: Atlantic Publishing Company, 2002

Food and Beverage Cost Control
Jack E. Miller, et. al Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2002

Restaurant Financial Basics
Raymond S. Schmidgall, et. al Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2002

 

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