Resources: Books

In addition to the titles in the Restaurant.org Store, we've partnered with Amazon.com to bring you a wide range of books about what it takes to run a restaurant.

• Starting a Restaurant	• General Business and Financing Guides	• Starting a bar
• Management	• Service	• Restaurant Design
• Restaurant marketing	• Food safety	• Catering
• Franchising	• Restaurant/food history	• Food dictionaries/encyclopedias
• Restaurant careers

"Starting a Restaurant" books on Amazon.com

Start Your Own Restaurant and Five Other Food Businesses
Jacquelyn Lynn Newburgh, NY: Entrepreneur Press, 2006

Upstart Guide to Owning and Managing a Restaurant, 2nd ed.
Roy S. Alonzo Kaplan Publishing, 2007

The Restaurant Dream?
Lee Simon Ocala, FL: Venture Marketing, 2006

The New Restaurant Entrepreneur
Kep Sweeney Dearborn Trade, 2004

The Restaurant: From Concept to Operation, 5th ed.
John R. Walker Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2008

Design and Equipment for Restaurants and Foodservice: A Management View
Costas Katsigris and Chris Thomas Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Food and Beverage Cost Control, 4th ed.
Lea R. Dopson, David K. Hayes and Jack E. Miller Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007

The Restaurant Business Start-up Guide
Paul Daniels Naperville, IL: Venture Marketing, 2008

The Encyclopedia of Restaurant Forms
Douglas Robert Brown Ocala, FL: Atlantic Publishing Group, 2005

Opening a Restaurant or Other Food Business Starter Kit
Sharon Fullen Ocala, FL: Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc., 2005

Running a Restaurant for Dummies
Michael Garvey et. al Hoboken, NY: For Dummies (Wiley), 2004

Restaurant Financial Basics
Raymond S. Schmidgall et. al Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2002

The Encyclopedia of Restaurant Training
Douglas Robert Brown Ocala, FL: Atlantic Publishing Group, 2005

Starting a Small Restaurant, Revised Edition
Daniel Miller Cambridge, MA: Harvard Common Press, 2006

The Restaurant Manager's Handbook, 4th ed.
Douglas Robert Brown Ocala, FL: Atlantic Publishing Group, 2007

Start & Run a Restaurant Business, 2nd ed.
Brian Cooper, et. al Self-Counsel Press, 2005

Restaurant Success by the Numbers: A Money-Guy's Guide to Opening the Next Hot Spot
Roger Fields Ten Speed Press, 2007