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 bar" books on Amazon.com

New Bar and Club Design
Bethan Ryder New York: Abbeville Press, 2005

Bartender's Black Book, (7th ed.)
Stephen Kittredge Cunningham San Francisco: The Wine Appreciation Guild, 2004

Entrepreneur Magazine's How to Start a Bar/Tavern
Sonya Shelton Newburgh, NY: Entrepreneur Press, 2003

Food and Beverage Cost Control
Jack E. Miller Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery
Steve Hindy et. al Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2005

The U.S. Brewing Industry: Data and Economic Analysis
Victor J. Tremblay and Carol Horton Tremblay Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005

Designing the World's Best Bars
Martin M. Pegler New York: Visual Reference Publications, 2005

Bar and Beverage Operation: Ensuring Maximum Success
Chris Parry Ocala, FL: Atlantic Publishing Company, 2002

The Joy of Mixology: The Consummate Guide to the Bartender's Craft
Gary Regan New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2003

The American Brewery: From Colonial Evolution to Microbrew Revolution
Bill Yenne Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 2003

Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Entrepreneurship from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Sam Calagione Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Opening a Restaurant or Other Food Business Starter Kit
Sharon Fullen Ocala, FL: Atlantic Publishing Company, 2004