Here is the step-by-step manual you need to cash in on this segment of the food industry. The revised 2nd Edition of How to Open a Financially Successful Bakery is an updated, comprehensive, and detailed study of the business side of the bakeries. This is a perfect book for entrepreneurs, schools, colleges and technical training centers. This detailed text contains all the information you will ever need to start, operate, and manage a highly profitable bakery.

While providing detailed instruction and examples, the authors lead you through finding a location that will bring success. Learn how to draw up a winning business plan, how to buy and sell a bakery, basic cost control systems, profitable product planning, equipment layout and planning, food safety and HACCP, successful food and beverage management, legal concerns, sales and marketing techniques, and pricing formulas. You will find out how to set up computer systems to save time and money, how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, manage and train employees, generate high profile public relations and publicity. Learn low cost internal marketing ideas, low and no cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales. Discover how to keep bringing customers back, accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning development, and the most recent IRS tip reporting requirements. Filled with thousands of great tips and useful guidelines, never before has so much practical information about the bakery business been offered in one book.

This is an ideal guide for newcomers to the business as well as experienced operators. In addition to basic operational practices this book will demonstrate how to: increase impulse sales and improve presentation, utilize merchandising fixtures and techniques, cross merchandise, point of purchase materials, and develop a product sampling program.

Other cookbooks by this author

• The Encyclopedia of Restaurant Forms: A Complete Kit of Ready-to-Use Checklists, Worksheets and Training Aids for a Successful Food Service Operation: With Companion CD-ROM
• The Encyclopedia Of Restaurant Training: A Complete Ready-to-Use Training Program for All Positions in the Food Service Industry: With Free Bonus Online Materials
• The Food Service Manager's Guide to Creative Cost Cutting and Cost Control: Over 2,001 Innovative and Simple Ways to Save Your Food Service Operation ... by Reducing Expenses With Companion CD-ROM
• HACCP & Sanitation in Restaurants and Food Service Operations: A Practical Guide Based on the USDA Food Code With Companion CD-ROM
• The Professional Caterer's Handbook: How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Catering Business (with CD-ROM)
• The Restaurant Managers Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Food Service Operation
• The Restaurant Manager's Handbook: How to Set Up, Operate, and Manage a Financially Successful Food Service Operation 4th Edition - With Companion CD-ROM