CREATESPACE How to Start, Run & Grow a Successful Restaurant Business: A Lean Startup Guide

Covers basic topics - it's a good starter but no where close to giving you all the tips required to run a successful business.

I was able to preview the table of contents and that, along with good reviews, gave me high expectations. The book itself is in a huge font and would probably be half the size if formatted normally. Items in the table of contents are covered in one or two shallow paragraphs.This is helpful to give a person an overview of the various topics, but the book gives me the impression it was probably AI generated, and it needs to be supplemented by other material. Not what I was hoping for, but still helpful.

This was a really good book. My name is justin and I normally don't read books,but I'm currently going to school for culinary arts and I've been in the business since I was 16 and I'm 19. The reason I bought this book is to give me some insight on how to run my own restaurant one day and it helped me figure out what to do with my menu.Ps. Thanks Tim Hoffman

I'm afraid that this book just didn't do it for me. The concepts are very elementary, and most of what you can learn can be discovered easily with reading a few articles on-line. The chapter on startup costs are very misleading, as so much depends on the type of restaurant you are building, how much a landlord might pay for tenant improvements, and the square footage involved, among a great many other things.I do advising for hundreds of businesses a year, so I am always seeking new perspectives, but this book didn't really give me any. I can also say that some of the information is very incomplete or in some cases just plain wrong.Here's an example, for context. One of the pieces of marketing advice is to "Use Social", which the author says is a must "Do or Die!", and then spends 3 short paragraphs on the topic, none of which is strategic or constructive. The advice is basically 'use Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram". If that's the level of advice you are looking for, then maybe this book will help you.My teeth are still grinding at the formatting, typos, grammar errors, and other issues throughout the book. I would recommend the author hire an editor to help out with at least that. I think I found an average of one error per page, which was distracting.If there's a pro here, the book is short. Even though it has ~220 pages, it is in LARGE font, double-spaced. It's a very easy read, I'll give it that.It's called a 'Lean Startup Guide', but the concepts of the Lean Startup are 100% ignored. I suspect the author isn't familiar with what that terminology means.Disappointing...

This book doesn’t provide any information or insight that can’t be found online. A lot is common sense and the print is very large.