How to Open a Financially Successful Bed & Breakfast or Small Hotel

There are literally hundreds of innovative ways demonstrated to streamline your business. Learn new ways to make the kitchen, bars, dining room and front office run smoother and increase performance. Shut down waste, reduce costs and increase profits. In addition, operators will appreciate this valuable resource and reference in their daily activities and as a source of ready-to-use forms, web sites, operating and cost-cutting ideas and mathematical formulas that can be easily applied to their operations. The companion CD-Rom contains all the forms in the book as well as a sample business plan you can adapt for your own use. While providing detailed instruction and examples, the book covers: - Finding a location that will bring success- Writing a winning business plan (the companion CD-Rom has the actual business plan you can use in MS Word)- How to buy and sell a bed and breakfast- Basic cost-control systems and profitable menu planning- Reservation systems and reservations networks- Sample floor plans, diagrams, equipment layout and planning- Successful kitchen management, food safety and HACCP- Housekeeping- Successful food and beverage management- Legal concerns- Sales and marketing techniques- Room rate formulas, arrival, billing and departures- Setting up computer systems to save time and money- Hiring and keeping a qualified professional staff, plus managing and training employees- New IRS tip-reporting requirements- Generating high-profile public relations and publicity, plus low-cost internal marketing ideas- Low- and no-cost ways to satisfy customers, build sales and bring customers back- Accounting and bookkeeping procedures, auditing, successful budgeting andprofit-planning development- Thousands of great tips and useful guidelines