Even though their restaurant business is thriving, Malcolm and Toussaint find their personal lives in jeopardy when Malcolm, tired of his marriage, finds his brother's playboy life appealing, while Toussaint meets an interior designer.

The story of two Italian brothers whose superb restaurant is on the brink of bankruptcy. Their only chance is to risk everything they own on one 'big night' with an extravagant feast for bandleader Louis Prima. But their big night is complicated by a lovers' triangle, a sneaky restaurant rival, and the hilarious perfection of Chef Primo.

In October 1985, at age twenty-seven, the author, with a good idea and scant experience, opened what would become one of New York City's most revered restaurants, Union Square Cafe. Little more than twenty years later, he is the CEO of one of the world's most dynamic restaurant organizations, which includes eleven unique dining establishments, each at the top of its game. How has he done it? How has he consistently beaten the odds and set the competitive...

Explores how the restaurant business is transitioning away from intuitive methods toward data-driven practices, citing the examples of successful celebrity-run restaurants and culinary trendsetters to explain how modern eateries are pioneering effective new approaches.

A One-Stop Start-Up Guide from an Accountant-Turned-Restaurateur. Ninety percent of all restaurants fail, and those that succeed happened upon that mysterious X factor, right? Wrong! A man of many hats-money-guy, restaurant owner, and restaurant consultant-Roger Fields shows how a restaurant can survive its first year and keep diners coming back for years. Featuring real-life start-up stories (including many of the author's own), this comprehensive...

PlateUp! combines chaotic kitchen and restaurant management with strategic planning and development to create a delightful roguelite dish unlike any other. Up to four players build and run a restaurant from scratch, choosing dishes, buying and placing appliances -- some of which can be daisy-chained together to create ambitious automatic kitchens -- cooking food and serving customers. Players have free rein to design their restaurant which will expand...

Every year hundreds of thousands of restaurants open with great expectations, and every year almost as many close down. The successful restaurateur is a combination of entrepreneur, entertainer, and magician. Your success in owning a restaurant will come as a direct result of solid business practices and your ability to entertain and satisfy your customers.

Tracy meets Nick in the third installment of the trilogy, and he helps her save an original draft of The New Colossus in exchange for her helping him run his restaurant. Tracy begins to feel uneasy as they get closer.

Twelve terrified wannabe chefs compete to win a world class restaurant as the acerbic host Gordon Ramsey challenges and fires the chefs at his whim.