Arnold Hospitality Press · Restaurant Operations Series
The Working Encyclopedia for Modern Restaurant Management
Focused. Practical. Professional. One problem at a time.
A growing operating library for restaurant owners, chefs, managers, supervisors, hospitality students, and experienced professionals.
Each volume addresses a specific operating problem. Together, they build a modern practical encyclopedia you can return to as the operation grows.
Start with the problem you have today.
Control Costs
Restaurant Operations Series
The Restaurant Food Cost Rescue Plan
A 30-Day Operating System to Control Purchasing, Inventory, Waste, Portions and Profit
Find the leaks in purchasing, inventory, portions, and waste.
Kindle, Paperback
Restaurant Operations Series
Stop Bleeding Payroll
How to Control Restaurant Labor Through Smarter Scheduling and Better Productivity—Without Cutting Service, Quality, or Your Best People
Control labor through smarter scheduling and better productivity.
Kindle, Paperback
Improve Management
Restaurant Operations Series
The First 90 Days as a Restaurant Manager
A Practical Guide to Leading People, Controlling Shifts, and Building a Stronger Operation
A practical start to leading people, controlling shifts, and building routines.
Kindle, Paperback
Restaurant Operations Series
Everybody Was Busy. Nothing Was Getting Done.
A Practical System for Restaurant Productivity, Priorities and Shift Control
Turn activity into results with clearer priorities, ownership, and shift control.
Kindle and paperback
Increase Sales
For deeper guidance in this area, continue into the Professional Restaurant Library.
Professional Restaurant Library
Every Shift Sells
How Hospitality Teams Grow Revenue, Build Loyalty, and Protect Trust—Without Giving Away the House
Build sales through thoughtful service, guest engagement, and a stronger hospitality culture.
Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover
Keep Guests Coming Back
Not every disappointed guest complains. Sometimes they simply never return. This new addition to the Restaurant Operations Series examines the everyday decisions that determine whether guests give a restaurant another chance.
Restaurant Operations Series · New Release
Why They Don’t Come Back
The most expensive goodbye may be the one you never hear.
Discover the guest experiences and management decisions that quietly cost restaurants repeat business—and how to earn another visit.
Kindle · Paperback
Fix Operations
Restaurant Operations Series
Everybody Was Busy. Nothing Was Getting Done.
A Practical System for Restaurant Productivity, Priorities and Shift Control
Turn activity into results with clearer priorities, ownership, and shift control.
Kindle and paperback
Build Systems
Restaurant Operations Series
Run the Restaurant. Let AI Help
Exactly What to Say, What to Ask, and How to Put AI to Work in Your Restaurant
Put AI to work on planning, communication, and everyday restaurant tasks.
Kindle, Paperback
Professional Restaurant Library
The Foodservice Operations System
How to Build Standards, Controls, Training, and Accountability for Consistent, Profitable Performance
Build standards, controls, training, and accountability into one dependable operating system.
Kindle, Paperback
Lead Better
Restaurant Operations Series
The First 90 Days as a Restaurant Manager
A Practical Guide to Leading People, Controlling Shifts, and Building a Stronger Operation
A practical start to leading people, controlling shifts, and building routines.
Kindle, Paperback
Insights
Stop Calling Your Employees “Family”
Why Great Teams Need Trust, Standards, and Accountability
Build professional teams through trust, clear expectations, fair standards, and accountability instead of relying on family language.
Kindle short read
Take Over or Turn Around an Operation
For deeper guidance in this area, continue into the Professional Restaurant Library.
Professional Restaurant Library
The Restaurant Turnaround Playbook
A 90-Day Operating System to Fix Food Cost, Labor, Quality, Service, Food Safety, and Accountability
A practical path to restoring standards, stopping losses, and regaining control.
Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover
From reading to implementation
Foodservice Operations Toolbox
Diagnose. Correct. Verify.
The books explain the operating system. The Toolbox helps you use it: checklists, calculators, worksheets, inspections, scorecards, diagnostic tools, planning documents, and manager implementation aids.
Start with the universal diagnostic tools, or follow a book’s companion-tool link for its specific resources. Some downloads request your name and email; operational information entered into tools is not collected for marketing.
The next Operations volumes
In Development
Six Restaurant Operations Series titles are in final edit. Purchase links and available formats will be added when each edition goes live.
Run the Shift Before It Runs You
The restaurant manager’s daily control system: readiness, priorities, ownership, closing, handoffs, and follow-through.
In final edit.
Restaurant SOPs That Employees Will Actually Follow
An expanded Operations volume connecting procedures with training, execution, verification, and accountability.
In final edit.
Stop Calling Them Family
An expanded Operations volume on building professional teams through trust, clear standards, and accountability.
In final edit.
The Foodservice Sales System
A working system for developing, organizing, and managing foodservice sales.
In final edit.
The Restaurant Should Not Depend on Who Is Working
A practical guide to building consistent restaurant operations across shifts and teams.
In final edit.
The Restaurant Warning Signs
A practical guide to identifying financial, operational, people, facility, and management problems before they become a crisis.
In final edit.
Put the system to work in your operation.
For an operation that needs direct support, Chef David Arnold helps owners and management teams diagnose problems, develop practical systems, and improve execution.