Restaurant Reality A Manager's Guide

By Michael M. Lefever

Book Overview

"Every meaningful phase of restaurant management is discussed in Restaurant Reality." --Thad Eure, Jr. Former president National Restaurant Association This inspirational and entertaining guide for managers, staff, educators, and students provides uniquely candid and practical insight into the restaurant industry. Filled with informative and often amusing anecdotes from the author's own experience, Restaurant Reality offers current and prospective restaurant professionals a variety of career-enhancing tips, techniques, and cautionary tales. Packed with illustrations and examples, this guide examines the industry from multiple perspectives, including those of owner, regional vice-president, franchisor, franchisee, district manager, manager trainer, and corporate manager. This multifaceted analysis enables readers to see how managers at each level of responsibility respond to given situations, using their own operational approaches within the context of common business goals. The book also explores those management styles and attitudes that foster more effective decision making. Restaurant Reality provides readers with the inside story on * buying and selling a restaurant * surviving the pitfalls of opening day * motivating employees * selecting a menu * dealing with equipment breakdowns * handling visits from health inspectors and much more. The result is a compendium of real-world advice on the restaurant industry that gives professionals and students a stronger grasp of the opportunities and risks inherent in he industry--and a better chance of long-term career success.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471289388
• ISBN13: 9780471289388
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.9" x 0.5" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Funny stuff

I was in a class Lefever taught, so I was skeptical of the reasons he assigned this book. However, it turned out to be one of the best reads I ever had in college. I read the book in a week. The title says something about reality, so prepare yourself. This book shows the good, the bad, and the ugly of the restaurant business. Oh, and the funny too.

An excellent and funny look at managing restaurants

Restaurant Reality is one man's (later one husband and wife's) journey through all levels of restaurant management. Drawing upon a lifetime of experience in restaurant management, Lefever's anecdotes give the reader a great sense of the ups and downs, sometimes too many downs, of buying, owning, and managing a successful restaurant. If you are interested in an eye-opening expose on what the textbooks don't tell you about owning your own restaurant, take a look at "Reality." If anything, it is good f