How to Open a Financially Successful Bakery is enhanced with an accompanying CD-ROM and provides the reader with a complete "how to" instruction guide and reference to the operating a profitable commercial bakery operation.

From finding an optimum location for one's business, to pricing formulas to follow, how to hire and retain a high-quality professional staff, successful budgeting, tips, tricks, guidelines, and much more, How to Open a Financially Successful Bakery walks the reader through virtually everything he or she needs to know.

A superb guide, filled with basic information valuable to any would-be small business owner, and an absolute "must-have" for anyone seriously considering a bakery business.

Contents:

1. Starting Your Own Bakery
2. The Basics of Buying a Bakery
3. How to Invest in a Franchise
4. Planning for Success—Writing a Business Plan
5. Launching Your Business Pre-Opening Activities
6. Successful Employee Relations and Labor Cost Controls
7. Your Customers
8. Marketing Your Business
9. Public Relations: How to Get Customers in the Door
10. Choosing Your Product Mix
11. Profitable Menu Planning
12. Recipe Development and Production Standards
13. Equipping Your Bakery
14. Public Areas of Your Bakery
15. Dedicated Work Areas
16. Creating a Safe and Productive Work Environment
17. The Essentials of Food Safety, HACCP and Sanitation Practices
18. Your Bakery Staff
19. Successful Kitchen Management
20. Internal Bookkeeping: Accounting for Sales and Costs
21. Successful Budgeting and Operational Management
22. Basic Cost Control for Food Service Operations
23. Controlling Your Labor Costs
24. Leaving Your Bakery Business

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