Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting Your Own Restaurant

Howard Cannon is the President/CEO of Restaurant Operations Institute, Inc., a national restaurant-based operations, training, consulting, and "turnaround" firm specializing in tactical and strategic systems development and training to improve operational execution in restaurant client and network companies. He is a renowned speaker, business consultant, and operational expert, as well as a restaurateur and entrepreneur and is considered by many to be a foremost authority and expert on turning restaurants around. Howard attended the University of Wisconsin and Hamilton University and has obtained his MBA, but he takes more pride in his PHD (poor, hungry, and determined) from RD and D (restaurants, dumps, and dives). He has lectured at universities and high schools across the country, including the highly acclaimed hotel/restaurant division of Washington State University. In addition, he has been the guest speaker at numerous industry events over the past decade. Since 1987, Howard's teams have been providing a partnership-based environment with clients, companies, and employees to develop operational practices for better restaurant profitability and performance. The no-holds barred environment and culture that Howard promotes can be bold, brash, demanding, and intense, but it creates excitement, catapults creativity, drives results, and reinvigorates restaurant companies. Howard speaks with heart and soul and conviction and fights for what's right. Ultimately, he runs restaurants and teaches others how to do the same. Howard has been called upon to implement strategies to improve day-to-day operational performance with companies across America, ranging from quick service to fine dining, from Fortune 500 companies to individual operations. He is a frequent speaker and trainer and can be reached by mail at 65 Woodbury Drive, Sterrett, Alabama 35147, by e-mail at roi3434@aol.com, or by telephone at 205-323-5559. You can also contact Restaurant Operations Institute, Inc., for more information at www.roiontheweb.com. Brian Tarcy is an author and book developer living in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books, including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Football by Joe Theismann. His book subjects have included professional sports, leadership, strategic planning, and medicine. He is also a journalist with 20 years of experience writing for newspapers. Currently, he is a correspondent for the Boston Globe. He is a graduate of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.Cannon, Howard is the author of 'Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting Your Own Restaurant' with ISBN 9780028641683 and ISBN 002864168X.