Becoming A Restaurateur

Name: Becoming A Restaurateur
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Patric Kuh
ISBN: 9781508294450

Author: Patric Kuh

Series: Masters at Work

Narrator: Joy Osmanski

Unabridged: 2 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 05/07/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Self-help, Personal Growth, Education, Counseling, Business & Economics, Careers

Synopsis

Award-winning journalist and food writer Patric Kuh explores the restaurant industry—based on the experiences of Lien Ta and Jonathan Whitener’s Here’s Looking at You restaurant in Los Angeles—and reveals essential details for anyone considering a path to this risky profession.

Everyone knows that opening a restaurant is a risky business, a venture with an astounding rate of failure. Patrick Kuh’s Becoming a Restaurateur takes readers behind the scenes of one of America’s trendiest new restaurants, revealing how Lien Ta and chef Jonathan Whitener of LA’s Here’s Looking at You managed to beat the odds. With valuable information about what daily life for a professional is like, this is an entertaining, practical guide to what makes a master restaurateur, from writing the business plan to opening night and beyond.

About Patric Kuh

Patric Kuh, who started his career cooking in restaurants, is the author of The Last Days of Haute Cuisine, a history of the American restaurant business which won the James Beard Foundation’s award for writing on food. He was Los Angeles Magazine’s restaurant critic from 2000-2017, and the recipient of both the James Beard Award for best restaurant critic in America and the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award in 2011. Kuh has been published in Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, and Saveur.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Daniel

I thought this book was OK. I liked that it was a quick read. Even for me. i liked the appendix with book recommendations and even a Youtube show. Reading this book made me that about whether I want to own and run a restaurant. I have not been a restaurant for years. I like the idea of making food a......more

Goodreads review by Sandy

Opened my eyes to the hidden world of managing a restaurant and how much work and details it takes for one to get a restaurant started, manage it, and make it successful. Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys visiting restaurants - you’ll start to appreciate it more and understand the art behind i......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

Not as good as Masters at Work title on becoming a somm but well worth reading if you eat out a lot and wish to know more on restaurant life. The number one fact I found was that the price of a glass of wine is the same as the wholesale price of a bottle of that wine — wow!......more