Comments on: The Restaurant Business Start-up Guide http://eatall.net/2010/01/the-restaurant-business-start-up-guide/ A site about food Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:36:43 -0600 hourly 1 By: John Cory http://eatall.net/2010/01/the-restaurant-business-start-up-guide/#comment-289 John Cory Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:04:29 +0000 http://eatall.net/2010/01/the-restaurant-business-start-up-guide/#comment-289 I have had very good results after buying this book. It is easy to read and digest. The Web site is easy to get into and is a great help. Therefore, I recommend this book for anyone starting a restaurant. Rating: 5 / 5 I have had very good results after buying this book. It is easy to read and digest. The Web site is easy to get into and is a great help. Therefore, I recommend this book for anyone starting a restaurant.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Gary Thomas http://eatall.net/2010/01/the-restaurant-business-start-up-guide/#comment-288 Gary Thomas Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:32:01 +0000 http://eatall.net/2010/01/the-restaurant-business-start-up-guide/#comment-288 As Advertised and More. . . I was looking for a book to assist in starting a restaurant and purchased this book. I found the tandem Web site to be very helpful (Note: you can purchase a CD of the Web site contents if for some reason you don't want to access the Web site online; however, I found going online easy enough). For example, you can find there the Excel business plan financial template that goes with the sample business plan in Chapter 4 of the book. It comes with a 3-year Proforma forecast, which includes: sales forecast, profit and loss statements, cash flow, and balance sheets. All with assumptions footnoted. Very nice. The Web site also includes three complete eBooks: 1) How to Get a Trademark 2) How to Get a Patent 3) Government Loan Resource Guide. There is also software for developing government required safety programs for: 1) Fire Egress 2) Employee Illness and Injury Prevention 3)Workplace Hazard Awareness. What time savers. As a bonus the Website includes shareware programs that can be used to help run a restaurant. One that I really liked is, "Scheduling Employees for Windows". I've always been a fan of shareware. This program is easy to use as is the Project Management program that can be downloaded - All-in-all this book has been a good investment. Rating: 5 / 5 As Advertised and More. . .
I was looking for a book to assist in starting a restaurant and purchased this book. I found the tandem Web site to be very helpful (Note: you can purchase a CD of the Web site contents if for some reason you don’t want to access the Web site online; however, I found going online easy enough). For example, you can find there the Excel business plan financial template that goes with the sample business plan in Chapter 4 of the book. It comes with a 3-year Proforma forecast, which includes: sales forecast, profit and loss statements, cash flow, and balance sheets. All with assumptions footnoted. Very nice. The Web site also includes three complete eBooks: 1) How to Get a
Trademark 2) How to Get a Patent 3) Government Loan Resource Guide. There is also software for developing government required safety programs for:
1) Fire Egress 2) Employee Illness and Injury Prevention 3)Workplace Hazard Awareness. What time savers. As a bonus the Website includes shareware programs that can be used to help run a restaurant. One that I really liked is, “Scheduling Employees for Windows”. I’ve always been a fan of shareware. This program is easy to use as is the Project Management program that can be downloaded – All-in-all this book has been a good investment.

Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Kathy Jesperson http://eatall.net/2010/01/the-restaurant-business-start-up-guide/#comment-287 Kathy Jesperson Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:03:56 +0000 http://eatall.net/2010/01/the-restaurant-business-start-up-guide/#comment-287 I highly recommend this book. If you are considering, or even if you are already in the restaurant business, take a look at what this book and set of resources has to offer. I'm glad I found it when I did. Rating: 5 / 5 I highly recommend this book. If you are considering, or even if you are already in the restaurant business, take a look at what this book and set of resources has to offer. I’m glad I found it when I did.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Edward Groves http://eatall.net/2010/01/the-restaurant-business-start-up-guide/#comment-286 Edward Groves Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:46:03 +0000 http://eatall.net/2010/01/the-restaurant-business-start-up-guide/#comment-286 Update: The company said the site had been hacked and was back up and running. It did not look like any of the software had been updated. If that is so, my review stands. If you haven't read ANY other books on the subject of opening a restaurant, this book could be useful. However, the web site was not in operation when I tried to log in. Update: I emailed the company and was given an alternate site to log into. After revewing the site I found these problems: When I downloaded ClacMenu and installed it, after I rebooted and tried to run the program I received the following error: "Can't load custom control DLL: C:cmwinidsp16. vbx. " When I installed the Measurement Unit Conversion program (UTool), on the registration screen (where it tells you that the program has some limitations and asks for a registration fee) it says: "This version is for evolutional use only. . . " and the continue button says: "Continue Evolution". I think they mean Evaluational (which is not a word) and Evaluation. Also it would be silly to pay for this program when there are free conversion sites on the internet. The Inventory and Nutrition Costing program is nearly 10 years old (the copyright is 1994-2001) and is therefore very crude by today's standards. I wouldn't use it. Same with the Nutrion software: it was written for Windows 98. Rating: 1 / 5 Update: The company said the site had been hacked and was back up and running. It did not look like any of the software had been updated. If that is so, my review stands.

If you haven’t read ANY other books on the subject of opening a restaurant, this book could be useful. However, the web site was not in operation when I tried to log in.

Update:

I emailed the company and was given an alternate site to log into. After revewing the site I found these problems:

When I downloaded ClacMenu and installed it, after I rebooted and tried to run the program I received the following error: “Can’t load custom control DLL: C:cmwinidsp16. vbx. ”

When I installed the Measurement Unit Conversion program (UTool), on the registration screen (where it tells you that the program has some limitations and asks for a registration fee) it says: “This version is for evolutional use only. . . ” and the continue button says: “Continue Evolution”. I think they mean Evaluational (which is not a word) and Evaluation. Also it would be silly to pay for this program when there are free conversion sites on the internet.

The Inventory and Nutrition Costing program is nearly 10 years old (the copyright is 1994-2001) and is therefore very crude by today’s standards. I wouldn’t use it. Same with the Nutrion software: it was written for Windows 98.

Rating: 1 / 5

]]> By: Chef Jimmie http://eatall.net/2010/01/the-restaurant-business-start-up-guide/#comment-285 Chef Jimmie Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:22:23 +0000 http://eatall.net/2010/01/the-restaurant-business-start-up-guide/#comment-285 to get out from the kitchen. This book had the answers to make a start-up a success. Thankfully, it even addressed situations that I had not really considered, nor found in other books. I wish I would have found this book first! Rating: 5 / 5 to get out from the kitchen. This book had the answers to make a start-up a success. Thankfully, it even addressed situations that I had not really considered, nor found in other books. I wish I would have found this book first!
Rating: 5 / 5

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