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Running a Bar for Dummies Click Here

$ 21.99

Running a Bar for Dummies
Have you ever thought of owning your own bar?
Did you ever stumble into an overpriced watering hole and think how much better it could be if you ran the place?
Maybe you walked into your dream bar and realized that running one was the dream job you’ve always wanted?

With Running a Bar for Dummies, you can live your dream of operating your own establishment. This hands-on guide shows you how to maintain a successful bar, manage the business aspect of it, and stake your place in your town’s nightlife. Paperback. 360 pages.

The Bar and Beverage Book Click Here

$ 83.51

The Bar and Beverage Book
It takes more than top shelf cocktails to produce a successful beverage operation. Todays successful bar operations must be run by managers who have product and equipment knowledge, management savvy, marketing skills, insight to the latest trends, and, of course, a strong grasp of mixology. This revised fourth edition of The Bar and Beverage Book has the most up to date material on managing a beverage operation, bar equipment, sanitation and bar setup, inventory control, and the importance of planning for profit. 737 page, hard-back book. CLS0608

The Design Mix B-TDM Click Here

$ 29.95

The Design Mix: Bars, Cocktails and Style
Cocktails evoke glamour – whether it is James Bond ordering a Martini "shaken not stirred" or Sarah Jessica Parker and her friends in 'Sex in the City' sensuously sipping Cosmopolitans.

The Design Mix – Bars, Cocktails & Style brilliantly captures the sophisticated, alluring world of today’s international bar scene. As well as profiling over 25 of the top bar and restaurant interiors, this lavishly illustrated book sheds light on the inspiration behind their cutting-edge designs. Alluding to the cocktail's wider cultural connotations with the inclusion of film stills and posters, it also features many classic recipes as well as new creations by renowned mixologist Jamie Walker. With over 200 photos, this richly atmospheric book offers readers fascinating insights into the exclusive world of cocktail culture. 164 pages.

How to Manage a Successful Bar B-MSB Click Here

$ 23.00

How to Manage a Successful Bar
An invaluable comprehensive guide to running a bar for maximum profit and minimum stress. Detailed coverage includes 25 of the most important drink recipes; beverage and equipment basics; how to hire, fire and motivate staff; establishing rapport with customers and handling difficult situations; dealing with mixed orders from waiters; legal aspects of safety and sanitation; guidelines for responsible alcohol service. Contains numerous authentic examples. 224 pages.

The Professional Bar and Beverage Managers Handbook B-PBBMH Click Here

$ 79.95

The Professional Bar and Beverage Managers Handbook
Companion CD-ROM Included
How to open and operate a financially successful bar, tavern, and night club. this is an excellent book, providing a thorough examination of the bar business. Anyone considering the bar business, whether as a new start-up or purchasing an existing one, would do well to read this book. For the beginner, it poses some important aspects of the business and points out the work involved with operating successfully versus the "romantic" idea of what being a bar owner is. 554 pages, hard-back book.

The Beverage Operator's Survival Guide B-BOSG Click Here

$ 15.95

The Beverage Operator's Survival Guide
The title speaks for itself in this all new handbook by Robert Plotkin. Healthy survival is all about contingency planning. Think about any day and how many things happen to change the way you expect it to go. Add 5-25 other people (employees) into the mix, and you can guarantee at some point in the day you will have to plan for the unforeseen, and occasionally it will be something that seriously threatens some aspect of the business. So roll up your sleeves and get ready to put some policies and procedures in place that will in the long run make your business a much more lucrative and positive place to be. 98 Pages.

Bar Style B-BS Click Here

$ 80.00

Bar Style: Hotels and Members Clubs
Bar Style charts the glamorous design renaissance of hotel bars and members' clubs and the way their cutting edge interiors have helped forge a new social culture that is a far cry from traditional bars and pubs. Until recently dominated by sexless corporate design and traditional stuffiness, it is hotel and members' bars that have responded to a backlash against the homogenity of the high street with interiors of great beauty, style and wit. As this book reveals, hotel bars and members' clubs are now the playground for the innovative designers, sophisticated celebrities and ultra cool urbanites.CLS0608

The Disgusting Practice of Bartender Theft B-DPBT Click Here

$ 39.00

The Disgusting Practice of Bartender Theft *New Edition
"If you apply the knowledge of how bartenders steal and the basic theft prevention techniques you get from this book, I guarantee you:

1) Tens of thousands of dollars in cost savings
2) Less theft
3) A more profitable business

You can not put a price on the information contained in this book!"
Bob Johnson, CBM

Chapter 1 : Ways Bartenders Steal

Chapter 2 : Ways to Prevent Theft

Chapter 3 : How Bartenders Get Caught Stealing

The Food Service Managers Guide to Creative Cost Cutting and Cost Control B-FSMGCC Click Here

$ 79.95

The Food Service Managers Guide to Creative Cost Cutting and Cost Control
Companion CD-ROM Included
Over 2001 innovative and simple ways to save your food service operation thousands by reducing expenses. This book presents ways to analyze your profit and where it is driven from, breaking down the big numbers of food and liquor, labor and general operating costs into detailed costs they encompass. Become a better manager or owner by understanding how these detailed costs drive the big picture. 588 Pages, Hard Back

The Right Mix B-TRM Click Here

$ 80.00

The Right Mix
Managing for profit in bar and beverage service. To help the hospitality student understand and appreciate the intricacies of managing a bar and beverage operation, this text presents the material in a fashion which will not intimidate or confuse. Because today's clientel is much more sophisticated than past generations, the book begins with a thumb-nail discussion of each category of alcoholic beverages - beer, wine, distilled spirits, and non-alcoholic drinks. This is the perfect manual for beginners, with high quality illustrations throughout the book for a more visual approach to becoming the most profitable in the business. 182 pages, paperback book. CLS0608

How to Succeed in the High Risk Restaurant Business By Someone Who Did B-FSM-HTS Click Here

$ 24.95

How to Succeed in the High Risk Restaurant Business By Someone Who Did.
For anyone in the food service industry or may be contemplating food service as a career, this read will spell out the key factors neccessary to succeed, in common sense-terms. Bill Wentz speaks plainly with a knowledge drawn from practical experiences of what works best with managing this business.

Running a Successful Bar B-RSB Click Here

$ 44.95

Running A Successful Bar
The "how to" guide for club owners and bar managers. Includes guidelines for Bar Manager Certification. Subjects include: Human Resources, Beverage Control, Bartender Theft, Managing Bartenders and Servers, Legal Aspects of Beverage Management plus many forms in print and on diskette. Combines vital information from books 2020, 2120, 2130, 2150 and more in one masterpiece. By Bob Johnson, Karen Jones and Anheuser Busch Inc. 8 1/2 X 11 236 pages.

Start & Run a Money-Making Bar B-SRMMB Click Here

$ 22.95

Start & Run A Money-Making Bar
A comprehensive manual for owners, managers and employees who want to see their dream of owning, starting, managing and promoting a bar come true. Helps to avoid costly mistakes. Real life solutions for daily problems.

Owning and Managing a Bar or Tavern B-OMBT Click Here

$ 19.95

Owning and Managing a Bar or Tavern!
Running a bar or tavern is risky business for those who go into it uninformed. This guide provides essential information on planning, making the initial investment, financial management and marketing. The author pays particular attention to alcohol awareness issues and legal issues connected with bar and tavern management.

Preventing Internal Theft B-PIT Click Here

$ 19.95

Preventing Internal Theft
Stop targets of opportunity. Prevent illicit practices. Put systems in place that stop theft. Losses due to employee theft can be staggering and in some cases detrimental. Learn how they steal and how to stop it! A must for any serious operator! Another well written Robert Plotkin book. 81pages 6" X 9"

The Responsible Serving of Alcoholic Beverages B-RSAB Click Here

$ 49.95

The Responsible Serving of Alcoholic Beverages B-RSAB

The Responsible Serving of Alcoholic Beverages: A Complete Staff Training Course for Bars, Restaurants, and Caterers.
Companion CD-ROM Included
Alcohol sales are an important source of revenue for many businesses. However, establishments may face the potential for civil and criminal liability should a customer become intoxicated a cause damage to themselves, others, or property. Good management and emplyee training is the key to preventing these problems before they becomer an issue.

ServSafe Alcohol B-SSA Click Here

$ 25.00

ServSafe Alcohol
Fundamentals of Responsible Alcohol Service
Risk Management is crucial to the success of every restaurant and food service operation. Serving alcohol responsibly is critical to preventing difficult circumstances in establishments, and ultimately, in the community. We convened foodservice, regulatory, legal, academic, medical, and insurance experts to develop a new training program that focuses on what front-of-house employees need to know to serve alcohol responsibly. ServeSafe Handbook is equipped with quizzes and tests to help you study. Once you have finished reading and completing the activities throughout each chapter, see how well you have learned. CLS0608

The Waiter and Waitress and WaitStaff Training Handbook B-WWTH Click Here

$ 29.95

The Waiter and Waitress and WaitStaff Training Handbook B-WWTH

The Waiter and Waitress and WaitStaff Training Handbook: A complete guide to the proper steps in service for food and beverage employees.
This new training handbook was designed for use by all food service serving staff members. the guide covers every aspect of restaurant customer service for the positions of host, waiter or waitress, head waiter, captain, and bus person. The detailed performance of each position is described for different types of establishments and all types of service including French, American, English, Russian, Family-Style and Banquet. It provides step-by-step instructions.

Successful Beverage Management B-SBM Click Here

Successful Beverage Management Book and Forms Cd
Proven Strategies for the On-Premise Operator
An all new beverage management book by consultant and management guru Robert Plotkin. He has compiled all of his resources into the most useful book ever written on how to develop a profitable beverage operation.
The Forms Cd is a complete set of master forms for improving profits and reducing costs. Includes instructions on usage and all of the forms necessary to implement your customized program. When used in conjunction with the Successful Beverage Management book it provides you with all the answers to achieve the maximum results of a profitable beverage program.
Save 10% when you order the Successful Beverage Management book and Forms Cd.