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Every guide is a working restaurant, on paper.

Not a course. A working file — recipes with food-cost %, the full P&L, the floor plan, the scripts.

Argentine Asado Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Argentine Asado — Operations Guide

P&L $2.9MMargin 38%
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Australian Artisan Patisserie

Australian Artisan Patisserie

P&L $820KMargin 44%
Startup from $60K
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Australian Native Dessert Bar

Australian Native Dessert Bar

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Bangkok Famous Dessert Cafés — Complete Operator's Guide

Bangkok Famous Dessert Cafés — Complete Ope...

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Bangkok Instagram Dessert Cafe

Bangkok Instagram Dessert Café

P&L $640KMargin 52%
Startup from $45K
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Bangkok Rooftop Bar & Dining — Complete Restaurant Guide

Bangkok Rooftop Bar & Dining

P&L $1.8MMargin 41%
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Bombay Caffe© Restaurant Operations Guide 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Bombay Caffé — Operations Guide

P&L $1.1MMargin 39%
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Brazilian Churrasco — Restaurant Profitable Guide

Brazilian Churrasco — Profitable Guide

P&L $2.4MMargin 35%
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Caribbean Roti Shop Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Caribbean Roti Shop — Operations Guide

P&L $900KMargin 34%
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Dim Sum Teahouse Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Dim Sum Teahouse — Operations Guide

P&L $1.7MMargin 38%
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Ethiopian Injera Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Ethiopian Injera — Operations Guide

P&L $900KMargin 31%
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Filipino Kamayan Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Filipino Kamayan — Operations Guide

P&L $1.1MMargin 34%
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Ghanaian Chop Bar Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Ghanaian Chop Bar — Operations Guide

P&L $900KMargin 31%
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Greek Taverna Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Greek Taverna — Operations Guide

P&L $1.4MMargin 35%
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Hawaiian Poke Bar Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Hawaiian Poke Bar — Operations Guide

P&L $1.0MMargin 41%
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Hong Kong Cha Chaan Teng Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Hong Kong Cha Chaan Teng

P&L $1.25MMargin 49%
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Italian Gelato & Dessert Bar

Italian Gelato & Dessert Bar

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Jamaican Jerk Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Jamaican Jerk — Operations Guide

P&L $1.0MMargin 33%
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Japanese Artisan Bakery Café — Complete Restaurant Guide

Japanese Artisan Bakery Café — Complete Res...

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Japanese Famous Cheesecake — Complete Restaurant Guide

Japanese Famous Cheesecake — Complete Resta...

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Japanese Izakaya — Restaurant Profitable Guide

Japanese Izakaya — Restaurant Profitable Guide

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Japanese Mochi — Complete Restaurant Guide

Japanese Mochi — Complete Restaurant Guide

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Kakigori Specialty Shop — Complete Restaurant Guide

Kakigori Specialty Shop — Complete Restaura...

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KOORI — Japanese Shaved Ice Dessert Bar | Complete Guide

KOORI — Japanese Shaved Ice Dessert Bar | C...

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Korean BBQ Restaurant Operations Guide — Recipes, Food Costs, Staff Workflow, P&L Model

Korean BBQ Restaurant Operations Guide — Re...

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Korean Fried Chicken Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Korean Fried Chicken — Operations Guide

P&L $1.5MMargin 35%
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Lebanese Mezze Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Lebanese Mezze — Operations Guide

P&L $1.1MMargin 34%
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Mexican Taqueria Operations Guide — Restaurant Business PDF

Mexican Taqueria Operations Guide — Restaur...

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Modern Asian Dessert Bar

Modern Asian Dessert Bar

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Mont Blanc Specialty Café — Complete Restaurant Guide

Mont Blanc Specialty Café — Complete Restau...

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Moroccan Tagine Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Moroccan Tagine — Operations Guide

P&L $1.1MMargin 32%
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NAMA28 Donut Café — Complete Restaurant Guide

NAMA28 Donut Café — Complete Restaurant Guide

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New Orleans Creole Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

New Orleans Creole — Operations Guide

P&L $1.5MMargin 33%
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Oaxacan Mole Kitchen Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Oaxacan Mole Kitchen — Operations Guide

P&L $1.3MMargin 33%
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Peruvian Cevicheria Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Peruvian Cevicheria — Operations Guide

P&L $1.3MMargin 35%
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Singaporean Hawker Centre Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Singaporean Hawker Centre

P&L $1.3MMargin 34%
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Spanish Tapas Bar Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Spanish Tapas Bar — Operations Guide

P&L $992KMargin 40%
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Sri Lankan Hoppers Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Sri Lankan Hoppers — Operations Guide

P&L $1.1MMargin 32%
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Suya Street Fire - Nigerian Cuisine

Suya Street Fire - Nigerian Cuisine

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Taiwanese Beef Noodle Restaurant Operations Guide — 28 Recipes + Full P&L

Taiwanese Beef Noodle — Operations Guide

P&L $1.0MMargin 32%
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Taiyaki & Wagashi- The Complete Tokyo Confectionery Playbook —

Taiyaki & Wagashi- The Complete Tokyo Confe...

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Thai Dessert Bar

Thai Dessert Bar

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Thai Fine Dining Modern — Complete Restaurant Guide

Thai Fine Dining Modern — Complete Restaura...

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Thai Specialty Coffee & Café — Complete Restaurant Guide

Thai Specialty Coffee & Café — Complete Res...

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Thai Street Food Café — Restaurant Profitable Guide

Thai Street Food Café — Restaurant Profitab...

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The Chinese Fine Dining Guide — NYC Dinner Standard

The Chinese Fine Dining Guide — NYC Dinner ...

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The French Bistro Guide — NYC Dinner Standard

The French Bistro Guide — NYC Dinner Standard

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The Greek Mediterranean Guide — NYC Dinner Standard

The Greek Mediterranean Guide — NYC Dinner ...

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The Indian Fine Dining Guide — NYC Dinner Standard

The Indian Fine Dining Guide — NYC Dinner S...

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The Italian Trattoria Guide

The Italian Trattoria Guide

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Shop by series

Three ways in, all $29.99 a guide.

Keep your paycheck

You don't quit first. You quit last.

The guide is built to run alongside your day job. Here's the timeline our operators actually follow.

Months 1–3

Learn the system

Nights and weekends. Pick your concept, work through the guide, run the numbers on your market.

Months 3–5

Secure the money & site

Your savings + the guide's P&L become a bankable plan. Sign nothing until the model says yes.

Months 5–7

Build & hire

Fit-out runs while you still earn. The staffing model and floor scripts train a crew for you.

Month 8

Hand in your resignation

The week before opening night — not a day earlier.

"I built all of these guides on my days off, while running a $15 million hotel kitchen full-time. Nights, weekends, one system at a time. If I could build the guides next to a day job, you can open your restaurant next to yours."

Timothy · Head Chef, founder of KitchenFounder

Inside every guide

Eight systems. One file.

01 — MENU

28 costed recipes

Every dish with food-cost % and target sell price.

02 — MONEY

Full P&L model

Revenue, COGS, labour, rent — real US-market numbers.

03 — SPACE

Floor plan

Layout built for covers-per-service, not looks.

04 — SERVICE

Floor scripts

Word-for-word scripts your staff can run day one.

05 — RETENTION

SMS templates

The messages that bring a first-timer back a second time.

06 — SOURCING

Supplier framework

What to buy, spec sheets, and how to negotiate it.

07 — PEOPLE

Staffing model

Roster, roles, and labour % that protects your margin.

08 — LAUNCH

Opening runbook

The 90-day sequence from lease signing to first service.

The math

Consultant: $30,000Guide: $29.99

A restaurant consultant charges $300/hour. This took 10 years to learn. You're getting it in 2 hours. The cost of doing nothing is another year in the job.

From the pass

Written by someone still on the line.

"I was an accountant for 9 years. The opening runbook was the first plan that made quitting feel like math instead of a gamble."Career switcher · ex-accountant, now café owner
"I've done 10 years in hotel F&B. These are the numbers nobody shows you until you've already lost money learning them."Timothy · Head Chef, author
"It reads like an operations manual, not a course. That's exactly why it works."Café owner · Melbourne

61 cuisines · instant download

Your restaurant already exists on paper.

$29.99. Built by a chef who has run it. Written for the operator who hasn't — yet.

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