Business Planning & Management
Virtual Restaurant
Use the business plan outline and sample business plans to see feasibility of a restaurant project. Site also offers financial modeling services.
Bplans.com
Find instructions as well as sample start-up plans, business plans, marketing plans, web plans and more. Many different business plans are represented. A great starting point.
CCH Business Owner's Toolkit
Guides to planning, starting, running, and marketing small businesses. Searchable.
Cost Watch
Find USDA wholesale food prices, searchable by city name. Also find food cost trends, and restaurant news. Membership services include reports showing
howyour operation compares to similar restaurants in a region, among other benefits.
Drawing Conclusions: Foodservice Design
Deawing Conclusions is a monthly column whcchi covers issues related to hospitality and foodservice design. Includes archive.
The Restaurant Doctor
Bill Marvin's interesting and informative site on restaurant management. "Bill works with good restaurants that want to be great and with managers who want to get their lives back!" You will find restaurant management agreements, tips and tricks to running a smoother operation, articles, a newsletter, and recommended readings.
RestaurantOwner.com
Specializes in working with restaurant operators who want practical advice on how to make their companies more profitable and foodservice organizations that want to create a more positive and productive working environment. Resources includes articles and advice from restaurant operators, and downladable tools on financing, staffing, menuing, technology, and service.
Alice Statler Library, City College of San Francisco
Updated September 23, 2002
