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

"Service" books on Amazon.com

The Art of Hosting: The Complete Training Guide for Waiters and Restaurant Hosts (E-book)
Gerard A. Pollion Universal Publishers, 2002

The Waiter & Waitress and Wait Staff Training Handbook
Lora Arduser and Douglas R. Brown Ocala, FL: Atlantic Publishing Company, 2005

Customer Service: A Practical Approach
Elaine K. Harris Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2002

Sales and Service for the Wine Professional, 2nd ed.
Brian Julyan London: International Thomson Business Press, 2003

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

Remarkable Service
Culinary Institute of America Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2001

The Responsible Serving of Alcoholic Beverages
Beth Dugan Ocala, FL: Atlantic Publishing Company, 2005

Service at Its Best: Waiter-Waitress Training
Ed Sander, et. al Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002