| Successful Catering: Managing the Catering Operation for Maximum Profit Contributor(s): Bode, Sony (Author) |
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ISBN: 0910627223 ISBN-13: 9780910627221 Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company (FL) OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2003 Annotation: According to the National Restaurant Association's Industry Forecast, social caterers are one of the fastest-growing segments of the restaurant industry. At present, for instance, the U.S. Yellow Pages lists in excess of 53,000 caterers. This figure includes off-premise and banquet facility caterers, not hotels. The annual sales of these 53,000 caterers are between $7 and $8 billion. While catering can be a lucrative career, let's put things in perspective. Sure, there's money to be made in the catering industry and the job satisfaction can be immense. Catering, however, is also hard work with long, unsocial hours. You also need to be able to multitask and organize your time with military precision. While this book can't do the work for you, it can make the work easier! Let this book come to your rescue with its tips and suggestions for the busy caterer. Get it right--the first time! This book is part of 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Cooking | Tablesetting - Business & Economics |
| Dewey: 642.4 |
| LCCN: 2002013542 |
| Series: Food Service Professionals Guide to |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.34" W x 8.18" (0.43 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |