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Restaurants are one of the most emotionally charged, operationally complex, and financially unforgiving businesses in the world. Yet the operators who truly succeed are not the ones who simply “love food” or “care about hospitality”—they are the ones who understand systems, psychology, engineering, financial discipline, and how to create environments that persuade people to return again and again.
That combination of art and science is rare.
That combination of experience and clarity is rarer.
And that combination is what Eric Faber delivers in this book.
For four decades, Eric has lived inside every side of the hospitality business—from restaurants to food trucks, packaging to distribution, construction to operations consulting. Most books capture one slice of the business. This one captures all of it.
This is not a book about theory.
It is a book about what actually works.
It is a playbook built from tens of thousands of real operational hours, hundreds of client engagements, thousands of menu revisions, dozens of bar rebuilds, millions in packaging decisions, and the kind of experience only earned by solving the same problems operators face every single day.
If you want a book that tells romantic stories about “finding your passion in the kitchen,” put this down.
If you want a book that shows you how to:
· Increase revenue
· Improve consistency
· Fix operational bottlenecks
· Design bars and kitchens that actually work
· Build teams that stay
· Make decisions based on evidence, not emotion
· And create restaurants that thrive, not just survive—
Then you’re holding the right book.
This book is the manual the industry has needed for a long time.
Eric has written it with honesty, clarity, and an unwavering focus on what helps operators win.
Restaurants are hard. But with the right knowledge, they can also be extraordinary.
You’re about to learn from one of the best.
Eric Faber
Restaurant, Packaging & Hospitality Consultant
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