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Smitty's
A family restaurant chain.
| Title | Author | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
The Restaurant Start-Up Guide | Peter Rainsford and David H. Bangs | A 12 month plan for successfully starting a restaurant.The all new edition of The Restaurant Start Up Guide focuses on what to do and when to do it advice for preparing to open a restaurant. This preliminary planner is an indispensable resource for anyone who is thinking of opening a restaurant. Complete with resources, timelines, sample financials, facilities checklists, and more, the would be restaurateur can be up and running in 12 months. | |
Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger Business (Family Business Leadership) | Craig E. Aronoff and John L. Ward | Family Meetings demonstrates the value of family meetings and how to effectively use family meetings to achieve family and business milestones. In its information-packed pages you'll learn ten benefits of effective family meetings; how to use family meetings to plan for future ownership and participation in the family business; how to use family meetings to preserve family traditions and history and to recognize and resolve conflicts; the key questions to be dealt with at family meetings; how to organize and run effective family meetings; how family meetings change as the business evolves; how to separate family issues from business issues; how to use rituals and ceremonies for bonding and recognition. | |
Streetwise Restaurant Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Successfully Owning and Running a Restaurant | John James and Dan Baldwin | Owning and operating a restaurant is one of the most challenging endeavors an entrepreneur can take on -- the hours are long and grueling, staff turnover averages 130 percent, and many fail within their first year. Streetwise "RM" Restaurant Management walks readers step by step through each aspect of opening and managing a restaurant. The book covers the practical issues faced on a daily basis and offers tips from an experienced restaurateur about the risks and rewards.Operating a restaurant demands creativity and flair, as well as practical know-how. Streetwise "RM" Restaurant Management joins both these aspects and shows readers how to create both front-of-house ambience and back-of-house efficiencies. Coverage includes everything from financing and operations to menu planning and decor.Streetwise "RM" Restaurant Management shows readers how to: -- Select the right location-- Develop the menu-- Cut costs and operate more profitably-- Attain permits and licenses-- Market and promote ideas to generate positive word-of-mouth-- Manage staff | |
Family Business | Ernesto J. Poza | FAMILY BUSINESS provides the next generation of family business owners with the knowledge and skills needed for the successful management and leadership of the family enterprise. The author, Ernesto Poza, uses both text and cases to explore a diverse set of family firms, examining the interrelationships between the owners, the family, and the management team. FAMILY BUSINESS, at its core, is a practical book that presents management and family practices to model success as well as an honest look at the advantages and challenges facing family enterprises. With an emphasis on leadership and positioning for the future, FAMILY BUSINESS illustrates how the family enterprise can achieve sustained growth and continuity through generations. | |
Running a Restaurant For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) | Michael Garvey, Andrew G. Dismore and Heather H. Dismore | The easy way to successfully run a profitable restaurantMillions of Americans dream of owning and running their own restaurant — because they want to be their own boss, because their cooking always draws raves, or just because they love food. Running a Restaurant For Dummies covers every aspect of getting started for aspiring restaurateurs. From setting up a business plan and finding financing, to designing a menu and dining room, you'll find all the advice you need to start and run a successful restaurant. Even if you don't know anything about cooking or running a business, you might still have a great idea for a restaurant — and this handy guide will show you how to make your dream a reality. If you already own a restaurant, but want to see it get more successful, Running a Restaurant For Dummies offers unbeatable tips and advice for bringing in hungry customers. From start to finish, you'll learn everything you need to know to succeed.New information on designing, re-designing, and equipping a restaurant with all the essentials—from the back of the house to the front of the houseDetermining whether to rent or buy restaurant propertyUpdated information on setting up a bar and managing the wine list Profitable pointers on improving the bottom lineThe latest and greatest marketing and publicity options in a social-media worldManaging and retaining key staffNew and updated information on menu creation and the implementation of Federal labeling (when applicable), as well as infusing local, healthy, alternative cuisine to menu planningRunning a Restaurant For Dummies gives you the scoop on the latest trends that chefs and restaurant operators can implement in their new or existing restaurants. | |
Keep the Family Baggage Out of the Family Business: Avoiding the Seven Deadly Sins That Destroy Family Businesses | Quentin J Fleming | Family businesses epitomize the best of the American Dream: you work hard, you're your own boss, you leave a lasting legacy to your children -- or do you? Statistics show that only 30% of family businesses survive to the second generation, and a paltry 10% survive to the third generation. Family businesses are in trouble, and their survival is crucial to us all. Their success ensures our country's success -- and their failure can drastically affect our economic health. In Keep the Family Baggage Out of the Family Business, family business expert Quentin Fleming has identified the Seven Deadly Sins that are invariably responsible for a family business's demise. Keep the Family Baggage Out of the Family Business presents practical and accessible advice geared toward the average family business owner or employee and is an invaluable tool for helping family businesses not only survive but thrive. | |
Family Business Governance: Maximizing Family and Business Potential (Family Business Leadership) | Drew S. Medoza and John L. Ward | While every family business is unique, embracing systematic governance processes can help any family business achieve goals shared by virtually all: orderly decision-making, peaceful continuity, and the freedom to make decisions based on the highest and best purposes of both the business and the family. | |
The Family Constitution: Agreements to Secure and Perpetuate Your Family and Your Business (Family Business Leadership) | Daniela Montemerlo and John L. Ward | The family agreement is becoming a prime objective to a successful family business. Designed for families planning to draft such an agreement, families deciding whether or not to begin the process, and those that have already established a family agreement, this book illustrates the fundamental components and their importance to the success of the family business. A family agreement or constitution is the expression of purpose for the continuity of the business and the process of creating one is just as important. | |
Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3: The Secret Formulas for Duplicating Your Favorite Restaurant Dishes at Home (Top Secret Recipes) | Todd Wilbur | A brand new restaurant recipe treasury from the wizard of culinary carbon copies. For more than twenty years, Todd Wilbur has been translating his obsession with recreating restaurant favorites at home into a blockbuster bestselling cookbook series. Using everyday ingredients, each of Wilbur's recipes provides step-by-step instructions that even the novice cook can follow-and the delicious results cost just a fraction of what the restaurants charge. With over 100 sensational new recipes, Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3 unlocks the secrets to: ?Outback Steakhouse Outback Rack ?Chili's Quesadilla Explosion Salad ?Olive Garden Breadsticks ?TGI Friday's Fried Mac & Cheese ?Chili's Firecracker Tilapia ?On the Border Mexican Mojito ?Cracker Barrel Double Chocolate Fudge Coca-Cola Cake And much, much more... | |
Hotel, Restaurant, and Travel Law (Hotel, Restaurant & Travel Law) | Karen Morris, Norman Cournoyer and Anthony Marshall | For students and practicing professionals in hospitality, travel and tourism as well as specialized paralegal work, Hotel, Restaurant and Travel Law: A Preventative Approach, 7th Edition, addresses legal issues confronted by managers in the hotel, restaurant, travel and casino industries. The emphasis is on prevention of legal violations. By reading the book, managers can appreciate and identify what actions and precautions are necessary to avoid, or at least minimize, the number of lawsuits. The book uses the case method, long recognized as a helpful approach to learning the often-complicated discipline of law. Readers will study decisions from actual cases in which hospitality establishments were sued, as well as what legal precedents were cited. |
| Tags | family restaurant |
| Address |
, Canada |
| Web | smittys.ca | Type | Franchise |