How to Thrive in the Restaurant Business is one of the most comprehensive independent and cost-effective guides for people considering opening a restaurant. It provides details on every aspect with facts, examples and even humor to help the reader better understand the challenges on the road to profitability, success and enjoying restaurant business ownership. Purchase includes access to FREE document resources files. The book differs from others in many ways, including each chapter starting with a list of What-To-Do and What-Not-To-Do in order to focus on positive results and avoid the mistakes of countless others that resulted business-ending distractions. It also addresses a key subject often overlooked by others: Loss Prevention: How to detect theft and stop it. Restaurants have one of the highest failure rates of any industry. This book was written specifically to reduce that statistic by thoroughly educating and empowering the reader to make the best decisions, whether that's to open a restaurant or avoid the industry altogether. In either case, the goal is to save the reader money, time and stress.