Real Estate, Capitalization + Partnership Strategies for The Restaurateur (MFBS-570)

How to avoid legal liability and prevent costly litigation. Restaurant Law Basics prepares you to make the right decisions in these critical situations and hundreds of others. This practical, jargon-free guide gives you the tools you need to protect your restaurant from legal exposure of every kind. It prepares restaurant managers to comply with the law and avoid or limit liability in virtually any situation---from hiring and managing employees and dealing with customer complaints to ensuring safety and security, obeying regulatory requirements, and more. Features: * Manager's Briefs that focus on critical legal aspects ofyour operations * Realistic scenarios that are analyzed to help prepare you tomake the right decisions in challenging situations * Checklists to help you avoid liability before any incident occurs

A comprehensive guide to working in the food industry looks at the business of running a restaurant and clarifies the laws affecting your business. Learn all the essential details to become a success and gain valuable insight on issues unique to the restaurant industry, such as- - Protecting Recipes - Tax Rules for Tips - Franchising - Trademarks for Menus and Products - Hiring and Firing - Leases - Advertising - Insurance

Ellet presents a new approach for efficiently analyzing, discussing, and writing about cases. Early chapters show how to classify cases according to the analytical task they require (making a decision, performing an evaluation, or diagnosing a problem) and quickly establish a base of knowledge about a case. Strategies and templates, in addition to several sample Harvard Business School cases, help you apply the author's framework. Later in the book, Ellet shows how to write persuasive case-analytical essays based on the process laid out earlier. Examples of effective writing further reinforce the methods.

Uses "The Development Process" as a framework for understanding how the U.S. legal system regulates, facilitates, and generally impacts real estate transactions and their outcomes. This book addresses the nature of specific legal issues directly relating to real estate transactions and how those issues may best be identified and addressed in advance. This book breaks down the myriad of laws influencing the selection, acquisition, development, financing, ownership, and management of real estate, and presents them in context. Readers will gain a practical understanding, from the perspective of a real property developer or real estate executive, investor, or lender, of: how to identify potential legal issues before they arise; when to involve a real estate attorney; how to select an attorney with the appropriate, relevant experience; and how to efficiently and economically engage and manage legal counsel in addressing real estate issues.

The eBook is not available thru the Library; a print copy is available in the Hilton Library in Hyde Park, NY.