The New Restaurant Manager: How to get ahead, avoid rookie mistakes, and still have a life

The New Restaurant Manager: How to get ahead, avoid rookie mistakes, and still have a life

by John Self
The New Restaurant Manager: How to get ahead, avoid rookie mistakes, and still have a life

The New Restaurant Manager: How to get ahead, avoid rookie mistakes, and still have a life

by John Self

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Overview

Why not learn from the mistakes of others?
The New Restaurant Manager is for new managers who want to avoid the mistakes that most beginning managers make. This refreshing how-to guide is written in a practical, down to earth style, like having coffee with your mentor.
• Guides you through situations and traps that could hurt your career
• Recognize career killers and how to avoid them
• Learn how you really get promoted
• Helps you work smarter, not harder
• Learn what to do when it is not going well

This book takes you through the most common situations, scenarios, and events that you are likely to experience as a new manager. Now rookie managers like yourself can avoid common mistakes and accelerate your career.

This book is the result of years of personal experience in restaurant management, teaching restaurant management, observing new restaurant managers, and gathering solid expertise from all levels of restaurant management. The personal experiences that the author had, both good and bad, and the experiences that he has observed have proven to be the same experiences that every single new restaurant manager goes through.

This is a career, self-improvement book that will accelerate the learning curve of new managers and prevent bad decisions and questionable career moves that can derail or delay promising careers. This is written in a practical, down to earth writing style to help new restaurant managers begin their career journeys.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781736421925
Publisher: John T Self
Publication date: 01/19/2021
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 260,155
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

John T. Self, Ph.D. spent 16 years in restaurant management at several restaurant chains, was vice president of a regional restaurant chain, and owned three independent restaurants and a comedy club.
When he started out, he made every mistake that a new manager could make. As his career progressed, he noticed that new managers were still making the same mistakes.

He went back to school, got a masters and Ph.D., and taught hospitality management at the University of Alabama, Golden Gate University, and at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona) where he is currently Professor Emeritus. Graduates who went into restaurant management told him about the mistakes and problems they were having, and nothing had changed: they were the exact same mistakes and problems that he and other new managers had. That’s when he decided to write this book and has been adding to it ever since.

Self has taught hospitality management internationally at universities in Xian and Dalian, China and was a Fulbright Scholar in Helsinki, Finland at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences.
John was a guest on KPCC Southern California Public Radio on restaurants and the economic recovery and was one of the featured consultants in the Los Angeles Times series Small Business Makeover.

John has many academic presentations and has published his research on turnover and restaurant failure in such journals as the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education, and the Journal of Foodservice Business Research.

Self gives workshops and presentations about helping new managers accelerate their careers.

TMI author bio
In his spare time, John loves international travel, reading post-apocalyptic and science fiction, is a private pilot with instrument rating, flying radio control airplanes, and ham radio.
Likes: Cold pork and beans, cold apple pie, comedy, trivia, humor, bad jokes, pets, college football, and Morgan automobiles.
Dislikes: the color yellow, restaurants that pick up dirty plates but not the dirty silverware, and really dislikes that Pluto is not a planet anymore.
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