Heather Lyon’s Start and Run Your Own Coffee Shop and Lunch Bar is a comprehensive guide brimming with her knowledge, advice and the steps that led to her success in running a thriving coffee shop and lunch bar. Lyon covers everything from choosing the right location, to branding, to planning a menu, to staffing, to choosing reliable suppliers, to keeping up with health and safety regulations, providing the reader with the keys to success.
Her approachable style makes it easily comprehensible, demystifying the often overwhelming process of starting a small business and making it seem manageable. It is packed with a myriad of “Tip” boxes on presenting a professional image, hygiene, and increasing productivity and efficiency and many other items. Start and Run Your Own Coffee Shop and Lunch Bar includes the most popular recipes that guarantee variety, customer satisfaction, and sales. Lyon’s delicious recipes include Coronation Chicken, quiche, Italian Sausage Soup, sticky toffee buns, vanilla fudge, and everything in between.
Lyon’s wealth of knowledge from her coffee shop that she has owned and operated since 2001, consistently filling 120 seats, is evident as she guides you through every aspect of the business. She presents readers with a series of questions for self-evaluation, helping them to determine whether or not they are prepared for the undertaking of running their own business, ensuring that it will be a rewarding and worthwhile adventure for them.
The following is a list of questions that you can expect to get answered from the book:
How do I choose my shop unit?
Should I lease or purchase?
When is it necessary to dismiss staff?
How do I handle doing so?
How do I offer specials?
How do I maximize staff efficiency?
How do I devise a menu?
What do I need to do to comply with health laws?
Start and Run Your Own Coffee Shop and Lunch Bar is an essential read for anyone interested in starting their own coffee shop and lunch bar. This book will provide all of the answers to all of your questions and become a go-to source for every uncertainty that arises.
Start and Run Your Own Coffee Shop and Lunch Bar
ISBN 9781845284244
How To Books - distributed in the US and Canada by Parkwest Publications
Paperback
226 Pages
6.75 X 9.75
$30
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