Starting a Small Restaurant - Revised Edition: How to Make Your Dream a Reality

by Daniel Miller

Book Overview

More than 100 new restaurants open *every day* and the truth is, most of them don't make it. This is a fully-updated edition of the classic guide to opening a small restaurant successfully, be it a bistro, diner, inn, cafe, or something fancier. Expert Daniel Miller offers a wealth of information to help would-be restaurateurs decide if the life of a small-business owner is right for them, and if so, how to proceed to get a restaurant up and running...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558322876
• ISBN13: 9781558322875
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good book, but the marketing advice is a little off

Overall, this is a good book for someone who wants to open up a small restaurant. There are a lot of good tips in the book, but the author does a poor job of going over the financial difficulties that most new owners face. The menu design tips are also poor--the author recommends that a menu list item prices from cheapest to most expensive--which goes against industry advice--this just makes it easier for a customer to find the cheapest thing on your menu. But the nuts and bolts are there. If you're a small time operator and you want a good overview on how to open up your own restaurant, this is a concise read. The Publishing Maven

MUST HAVE!!!

If you're thinkg of starting a small restaurant or cafe, wait until you've read this book!

Restaurant book

This book looked like the most comprehensive book for a teenager that is interested in starting and running a restaurant.

restaurant running is important

If you are part of the restaurant biz already then this is a great way to be sure all bases are covered. If you dont know a thing.. this will help you out alot. be ready for a lot of work with your biz plan!! this book gets 5 stars (bought book after library rental)

An encouraging, informative, and practical guide to opening a successful small restaurant

Now in a new and substantially revised edition, Starting A Small Restaurant: How To Make Your Dream A Reality by Daniel Miller (co-founder of the Grey Fox Inn, a successful small restaurant in Cambria, California) is an encouraging, informative, and practical guide to opening a successful small restaurant. Informing the reader of many necessities, tactics and strategies involved in opening, maintaining, and publicizing a restaurant, Starting A Small Restaurant is an easy-to-use and comprehensive reference replete with every "must-know" detail of opening and operating a new restaurant business. Starting A Small Restaurant is very strongly recommended for anyone anticipating beginning their own restaurant business no matter their degree of previous experience or expertise.