How to Open a Financially Successful Bakery

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Summary: The Companion CD ROM is invaluable !!!
Review: The book is great and the most updated on the subject - but the CD rom included with the book is superb and a very nice added bonus! It contains a full 50+ page business plan in Word for easy editing with financial statements, over 50 customized forms for your use in PDF format, and a check list of thousands of items you need to open - these are all bonus items included on the CD ROM !!!
We have looked at other business plans and software and all were over $100.00 - this is a great value - my only comment is the book is so packed with info. the type size is a little small for my aging eyes...

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Summary: Valuable to any would-be small business owner
Review: The collaborative work of Sharon Fullen and Douglas Brown, 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.

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Summary: Great Book - Great Value with the CD Rom
Review: While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author leads you through finding a location that will bring success, learn how to draw up a winning business plan ( The Companion Cd Rom has the actual business plan you can use in MS Word tm.), how to buy and (sell ) a bakery, basic cost control systems, profitable product planning, sample floor plans & diagrams, successful kitchen management, equipment layout and planning, food safety & HACCP, successful food & beverage management, legal concerns, sales and marketing techniques, pricing formulas, learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money, learn how to hire & keep a qualified professional staff, brand new IRS tip reporting requirements, managing and training 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, learn how to keep bringing customers back, accounting & bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting and profit planning development, as well as 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 new for comers to the business as well as experienced operators. In addition to basic operational practices this book will demonstrate show how to: increase impulse sales and improve presentation, utilize merchandising fixtures and techniques, cross merchandising, point of purchase materials, how to develop a product sampling program