Resources: Books

In addition to the titles in the Restaurant.org Store, we've partnered with Amazon.com to bring you a wide range of books about what it takes to run a restaurant.

• Starting a Restaurant	• General Business and Financing Guides
• Starting a bar	• Management
• Service	• Restaurant Design
• Restaurant marketing	• Food safety
• Catering	• Franchising
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• Restaurant careers

Restaurant careers books on Amazon.com

The American Culinary Federation's Guide to Culinary Certification
Michael Baskette and Brad Barnes New York, N.Y.: Wiley, 2005

Complete Idiot’s Guide to Success as a Chef
CMB, Leslie Bilderback Alpha, 2007

Food (Discovering Careers for Your Future)
Ferguson Ferguson Publishing Company, 2005

The Guide to Cooking Schools 2005, 17th ed.
Shawguides, 2004

On Becoming a Professional Chef
Michael Baskette Prentice Hall, 2004

Becoming a Chef
Andrew Dornenburg and Karen Page Wiley, 2003

Creating Chefs: A Journey through Culinary School with Recipes and Lessons
Carol W. Maybach The Lyons Press, 2005

Food Jobs: 150 Great Jobs for Culinary Students, Career Changers and Food Lovers
Irena Chalmers Beaufort Books, Inc., 2008

My Daughter Wants to Be a Chef! Everything You Should Know About Becoming a Chef!
Martin Laprise Trafford Publishing, 2006

The Professional Chef, 8th ed.
The Culinary Institute of America Wiley, 2006

Opportunities in Restaurant Careers
Carol Caprione Chemelynski McGraw-Hill, 2004

Culinary Schools, 12th ed.
Peterson’s, Fern Oram (Editor) Peterson's, 2009

The Reach of a Chef: Beyond the Kitchen
Michael Ruhlman Viking Adult, 2006

Real Resumes for Restaurant, Food Service & Hotel Jobs
Anne McKinney (Editor) Prep Publishing, 2002

The Seasoning of a Chef: My Journey from Diner to Ducasse and Beyond
Doug and Michael Psaltis Broadway, 2005

So You Are a Chef, with CD-ROM: Managing Your Culinary Career
Lisa M. Brefere et al Wiley, 2008

So You Want to Be a Chef: Your Guide to Culinary Careers
Lisa M. Brefere et al Wiley, 2006

Start Your Restaurant Career
Heather Heath Dismore Entrepreneur Press, 2006

A Survival Guide for Culinary Professionals
Karen Levine and Alan Gelb # 224 pages # Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning, 2004

Uncut: The Inside Story of Culinary School
Patrice Johnson AuthorHouse, 2004

World of Culinary Supervision, Training, and Management, The
Jerald W. Chesser and Noel C. Cullen Prentice Hall, 2008

 

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