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The Restaurant Business Start-up Guide (Real-World Business)
 
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Written by specialty food service guru Paul Daniels, The Restaurant Business Start-up Guide is a must for anyone starting a restaurant. Paul has taken his extensive experience in this field and made it available here for the first time. The book connects to a special Internet site where readers can get updates and download specific software and ebooks that assist users in starting and running a restaurant. The book includes: Professional advice, sample business plan, revenue forecasting, organizational tips, financial advice, location selection, leasing tips, negotiation tips, detailed business checklists, and much more!

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a good book
 
Review Date: May 17, 2010
Reviewer: Donnell D. Mcauliffe, cheyenne, wy
Gave this book as a gift but did browse through it and saw clear, concise writing and what looks like a great source for mapping out a business plan.
Where is the web site? And other problems
 
Review Date: December 8, 2009
Reviewer: Edward Groves, MI, USA
Update: The company said the site had been hacked and was back up and running. It did not look like any of the software had been updated. If that is so, my review stands.

If you haven't read ANY other books on the subject of opening a restaurant, this book could be useful. However, the web site was not in operation when I tried to log in.

Update:

I emailed the company and was given an alternate site to log into. After revewing the site I found these problems:

When I downloaded ClacMenu and installed it, after I rebooted and tried to run the program I received the following error: "Can't load custom control DLL: C:\cmwin\idsp16.vbx."

When I installed the Measurement Unit Conversion program (UTool), on the registration screen (where it tells you that the program has some limitations and asks for a registration fee) it says: "This version is for evolutional use only..." and the continue button says: "Continue Evolution". I think they mean Evaluational (which is not a word) and Evaluation. Also it would be silly to pay for this program when there are free conversion sites on the internet.

The Inventory and Nutrition Costing program is nearly 10 years old (the copyright is 1994-2001) and is therefore very crude by today's standards. I wouldn't use it. Same with the Nutrion software: it was written for Windows 98.



As Advertised and More
 
Review Date: July 26, 2009
Reviewer: Gary Thomas,
As Advertised and More...
I was looking for a book to assist in starting a restaurant and purchased this book. I found the tandem Web site to be very helpful (Note: you can purchase a CD of the Web site contents if for some reason you don't want to access the Web site online; however, I found going online easy enough). For example, you can find there the Excel business plan financial template that goes with the sample business plan in Chapter 4 of the book. It comes with a 3-year Proforma forecast, which includes: sales forecast, profit and loss statements, cash flow, and balance sheets. All with assumptions footnoted. Very nice. The Web site also includes three complete eBooks: 1) How to Get a
Trademark 2) How to Get a Patent 3) Government Loan Resource Guide. There is also software for developing government required safety programs for:
1) Fire Egress 2) Employee Illness and Injury Prevention 3)Workplace Hazard Awareness. What time savers. As a bonus the Website includes shareware programs that can be used to help run a restaurant. One that I really liked is, "Scheduling Employees for Windows". I've always been a fan of shareware. This program is easy to use as is the Project Management program that can be downloaded - All-in-all this book has been a good investment.
Vague and misleading!!!
 
Review Date: June 6, 2009
Reviewer: Tom Denney, Chicago, IL USA
First the CD-rom does not come with the book as you might think by reading the description above. It is available to order for [...]. Having accessed the website to look at what was available I found NO sample business plan specifically for restaurants under the restaurant side of the site. I had to click on his other book title in order to find a generic business plan, and I do mean GENERIC plan, that is there, and is once again, only a 10 day shareware product. "If you use BUSINESS PLAN MASTER to help develop your business plan and don't pay for it, you are already starting your business out on a bad note." you will need to pay up another $44.00. The employee scheduling tool (also a 'pay me more' shareware) is so lame I laughed at it. I could build a better scheduling tool in Excel, and you should be able too also if you are considering starting a business, which would then give you the power to share with accountants and import/export data. The suppliers list is nothing special you could not find by a few simple web searches. Over all I am very disappointed in this purchase and am considering sending it back. There is nothing useful in this book you can not find for free on the Small Business Association website, or other helpful sites. if you cant find it free on the internet by doing a little searching you rally ought to consider waiting tables for a bit before owning and running your own restaurant.
Just what I needed . . .
 
Review Date: August 15, 2005
Reviewer: Chef Jimmie, San Antonio, TX
to get out from the kitchen. This book had the answers to make a start-up a success. Thankfully, it even addressed situations that I had not really considered, nor found in other books. I wish I would have found this book first!

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