Allison Pollock Blog 1

http://www.allbusiness.com/food-beverage/restaurants-food-service/15051481-1.html

1. This particular blog has really good points when it comes to developing restaurant plants, and how to keep a restaurant open, or to open a restaurant. It goes through several mistakes owners make such as over pricing, paying employees too much, and putting the wrong people in charge. The author says the biggest mistake an owner can make, is keeping the restaurant too long when it is already on its way to failure.

2. This blog intends to serve those entering the restaurant career, and intend to open a restaurant. It is also helpful to those who may need some quick pointers and advise to keeping a business open.

3. This blog meets it goal very well. I have read some of the authors other blogs, and they are all easy to read and right to the point, as this one is.

4. There is no real image of the industry conveyed in this blog, it is more to simply help and inform those who want to begin their own business. If there were an image of the industry I would have to say that it would be that it's harder to open and have a successful restaurant then people may think. Because of this many people stay in the business too long and they get in more trouble then need be.

5. I do not believe this author has facebook or twitter, there is no mention of it on the blog website. He is however available to contact through email.

6. his first experience in the industry was owning a grocery store in his home town, when the original owner though Foley had more experience he decided to sell it to him. today he runs his own website, works as a culinary consultant, and has completed a manuscript about his decade-long experiences that was published in 2006.

7. This blog provides several tools to cost control in restaurants, it gives several tips on what majority of people do wrong, and how to do them correctly. It tells us what people spend too much money on that isn't necessary and what to do with that money instead of wasting it.