Finally, the non-commercial food service director has a comprehensive manual to aid them in their day-to-day operations. This massive 624-page new book will show you step by step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful food service operation. The author has left no stone unturned. The book has 19 chapters that cover the entire process from startup to ongoing management in an easy-to-understand way, pointing out methods to increase your chances of success, and showing how to avoid many common mistakes. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through basic cost-control systems, menu planning, sample floor plans and diagrams, successful kitchen management, equipment layout and planning, food safety and HACCP, dietary considerations, special patient/client needs, learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money, learn how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, manage and train employees, accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning development, as well as thousands of great tips and useful guidelines. The extensive resource guide details over 7,000 suppliers to the industry; this directory could be a separate book on its own. This covers everything for which many companies pay consultants thousands of dollars. The companion CD-ROM is included with the print version of this book; however is not available for download with the electronic version. It may be obtained separately by contacting Atlantic Publishing Group at [email protected] Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company president's garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.

Book & CD. This comprehensive book will show you step-by-step how to set up, operate, and manage a financially successful food service operation. This Restaurant Manager's Handbook covers everything that many consultants charge thousands of dollars to provide. The extensive resource guide details more than 7,000 suppliers to the industry -- virtually a separate book on its own. This reference book is essential for professionals in the hospitality field as well as newcomers who may be looking for answers to cost-containment and training issues. Demonstrated are literally hundreds of innovative ways to streamline your restaurant business. Learn new ways to make the kitchen, bars, dining room, and front office run smoother and increase performance. You will be able to shut down waste, reduce costs, and increase profits. In addition, operators will appreciate this valuable resource and reference in their daily activities and as a source of ready-to-use forms, Web sites, operating and cost cutting ideas, and mathematical formulas that can be easily applied to their operations. Highly recommended!

Restaurants are one of the most frequently started businesses, yet they have a high failure rate. A study has shows that it is 57% and 61% after three years. Don't be a statistic on the wrong side, plan for success. This is the only book of its kind with insider secrets. Here are given real life examples of how successful restaurant operators avoid the pitfalls and thrive. Hundreds of tricks, tips and secrets are given on how to make money with your restaurant.

Finally, the non-commercial food service director has a comprehensive manual to aid them in their day-to-day operations.

This book is appropriate and useful for the college and university lecturers, practitioners and students who are undertaking courses in business studies. It is widely acknowledged that, only theoretical discussion does not provide the comprehensive understanding about the business decision. This book will contribute in teaching as a tool to provide practical knowledge to the students and/or participants. Apart from the lecturers and students, practitioners also can be benefited from this book since it will provide them understanding about the problems and challenges faced by different types of companies. There is a growing need of reading and understanding the challenges faced by the managers from developing country perspective. Compared to the developed countries, the documentation of local cases are very few. As such, the present book taken the initiative to provide a selection of high-quality cases on Malaysia based companies and MNCs operating in Malaysia about their marketing and management related decision making issues. This book is unique in many ways. These cases not having been published before, provide a pool of fresh cases for teaching purpose. All eleven cases demonstrate different company issues and different managerial problems which certainly will enrich its readers' understanding about the phenomena. At the end of each case, suggested case assignment questions are provided so that the facilitator will have some preliminary understanding about the questions that can be discussed. Lastly, a brief synopsis of all cases is presented at the end of the book. It is hoped that, this book will provide the practical knowledge to its readers.

Prison-reformation has been a controversial and politically charged issue in Kenya. In the past it has elicited such legendary and emotional responses as What reforms? Prisons are not supposed to be five star hotels! Recently, however, there has been a greater consensus between the public sector and the civic society in Kenya - than has ever in the past - of the need to revisit the human rights of inmates in various Kenyan prisons. Since 2003 a number of ground breaking reforms have been introduced in Kenyan prisons and more reforms seem to be on the way. Jacqueline Korir in this book takes a serious and despassionate look into a single variable: the quality of catering in Kenyan prisons. Her findings were both shocking and challenging. The food was lacking in both nutritive value as well aesthetic appeal. The site of food samples was only reminiscent of a grotesque meaning of the famous Council in Church History - The Diet of Worms! This book, grounded, in empirical data analysis by hard statistics and backed by rare photographs from inside Kenyan prisons serves as an eye-opener to both the prison-reformists as well as students and teachers of African sociology and institutional catering all over the world.

Previous editions sold more than 17,000 copies Now includes a CD-ROM with Excel Worksheet templates and features new chapters on product management brand strategy and international perspectives Linda Gorchels is a well-known product management authority, and the author of The Product Manager's Field Guide and The Manager's Guide to Distribution Channels