Restaurant Industry

The Restaurant Industry is about the business behind the food. Service, hospitality, leadership, ownership and economics, rather than what happens at the stove.

Will Guidara ran Eleven Madison Park with Daniel Humm and took the restaurant to the top of the list of the world's best by caring an unreasonable amount about the guest. Unreasonable Hospitality is the story of how they did it, published under Simon Sinek's imprint and read far beyond the restaurant world by people working in retail, sales and service businesses.

Nicholas Lander owned L'Escargot in London in the 1980s and has since been a restaurant columnist for the Financial Times. In The Art of the Restaurateur, he writes about the craft of running a restaurant, the considerably less glamorous work that determines whether a kitchen gets to exist at all. He tells the stories behind some of the world's most famous restaurants and what actually made them work.

Two books about a profession that is almost never described, despite determining everything else.