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Wonderful and Easy-to-Read Book
This book is wonderful! Easy to read and easy to understand without sacrificing the technical knowledge it is trying to get across! I'd recommend this for anyone with or without previous restaurant experience! Helpful and Honest This was the most helpful and honest book I have read on opening a restaurant. It's realistic but also gives you hope and help. Anyone thinking of opening a restaurant this is a must have!. It's easy to ready and understand. This is the only book you need! don't waste your money and time on any other book! This is a great plan The restaurant business is not easy. Howard Cannon makes that very clear in his book. Yet he shows you how, in step-by-step fashion, to make your dream come true if you are willing to work hard enough and plan things out. From the beginning, as he helps you analyze whether the business is for you, through the various stages of planning what kind of restaurant you want to how to buy silverware, Cannon delivers the goods. Perhaps the best thing he does is identify the things that can derail your dream so that you can be on the lookout. He points out that most restaurants fail, but he has turned around enough failures to know how to avoid the common pitfalls. More than that, though, he is enthusiastic about the business while being realistic about the work involved. The restaurant business is not for the timid, but this book takes you through all the steps, including a calendar of when to do things, so that you will be able to be seating customers soon in your very own restaurant. This is a great book and it will help you a lot. I started a restaurant! It works. Really. I am more amazed than anybody that an Idiot's Guide would work but this guy knows what he is talking about.. There's plenty of detail here and I've got a restaurant to prove it. For beginners only Considering the expertise that the author brings to this book, one would expect or at least hoped for him to have given a more indepth treatment of this subject. Most of what he says (80%) is common business sense and anyone who has had some experience in any kind of business could probably figure out. There are some really good tips in here but they are very few and far between. Perhaps part of this has to do with expectations - I was looking for a book to lay out more specific issues involved with this industry. What I got was a Business 101 book. It's clear that Mr. Cannon has the experience to deliver something more - if he comes out with an advanced book on the subject I'd buy it. Warning: only buy this book if you have no prior experience in business. | |
