| Controlling Restaurant & Food Service Operating Costs Contributor(s): Lewis, Cheryl (Author), Brown, Douglas R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0910627150 ISBN-13: 9780910627153 Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company (FL) OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: This book deals specifically with ways to reduce operating costs that are primarily management-controllable expenses. Controlling the operating costs of a restaurant is a constant management task. One needs to balance labor, food and liquor costs against sales and quality in order to make any sort of realistic profit. Improvements in technology and management techniques allow smart restaurant operators to keep operating costs within the boundaries needed to generate a profit while still providing their customers with the level of service that they need to generate repeat business. The food service industry is in a state of constant change, particularly due to the nature of pricing fluctuations and rising labor costs. A restaurant manager must be prepared to develop and monitor costs in all controllable areas to maintain profitability. Some costs you just cannot change. These are the fixed or semi-fixed operating costs, which include such items as minimum wage rates, tax rates, rent, permits and fees, insurance and real estate taxes. Fortunately, many costs can be reduced considerably, without reducing quality or efficiency. Some of the controllable and flexible operating costs include purchasing, receiving, storing, food preparation, repair and maintenance, advertising, serving methods, staff training, food and beverage cost controls and accounting. As a restaurant operator, you will often find that your bottom line is manipulated by outside circumstances. Armed with the information in this book, you will final actual tips that produce profitable results, without consuming all of your time in unnecessary research or, worse, experiences of painful trial, risk and error. This book is partof the new series from the editors of the "Food Service Professional Magazine. With 15 books on the most relevant food service subjects, theses are the best and most comprehensive books for serious food service operators available today. These step-by-step guides on specific management subjects are easy to read, easy to understand and will take the mystery out of the subject. The information is "boiled down" to the essence. They are filled to the brim with up-to-date and pertinent information. These books cover all the bases, providing clear explanations and helpful, specific advice. All titles in the series include the phone numbers and Web sites of all companies discussed. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism |
| Dewey: 647.950 |
| LCCN: 2002013539 |
| Series: Food Service Professionals Guide to |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.36" W x 8.22" (0.44 lbs) 143 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This series of fifteen books - The Food Service Professional Guide TO Series from the editors of the Food Service Professional magazine are the best and most comprehensive books for serious food service operators available today. These step-by-step guides on a specific management subject range from finding a great site for your new restaurant to how to train your wait staff and literally everything in between. They are easy and fast-to-read, easy to understand and will take the mystery out of the subject. The information is boiled down to the essence. They are filled to the brim with up to date and pertinent information. The books cover all the bases, providing clear explanations and helpful, specific information. All titles in the series include the phone numbers and web sites of all companies discussed. What you will not find are wordy explanations, tales of how someone did it better, or a scholarly lecture on the theory. Every paragraph in each of the books are comprehensive, well researched, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read, yet are packed with interesting ideas. You will be using your highlighter a lot The best part aside from the content is they are very moderately priced. The whole series may also be purchased the ISBN number for the series is 0910627266. You are bound to get a great new idea to try on every page if not out of every paragraph. Do not be put off by the low price, these books really do deliver the critical information and eye opening ideas you need to succeed without the fluff so commonly found in more expensive books on the subject. Highly recommended 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. |