restaurateurs

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restaurateurs

The Blue Bistro

2010
Adrienne Dealey, broke and single, decides to spend the summer working at a popular Nantucket restaurant, despite her lack of experience, but as she works to get her footing in her new career, Adrienne is intrigued by the owner, Thatcher Smith, and his relationship to Fiona, the chef.

Ray Kroc

McDonald's restaurants builder
2015
Looks at the life of Ray Kroc, discussing his prowess as a salesman, looking at some of his business ventures, and examining the origins and growth of his McDonald's restaurant chain.

Fresh off the boat

a memoir
A radical reimaging of the immigrant memoir, this is the exhilarating story of every American outsider who finds his/her destiny in the margins.

Grinding it out

the making of McDonald's
1987
The businessman who created McDonald's discusses his life, his work in the fast-food business, and the work of the humanitarian foundations he has set up.

Blood, bones & butter

the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef
2012

Dave Thomas

Wendy's founder
2015
A biography of Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's.

Tom Monaghan

Domino's Pizza innovator
2015
A biography of Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Pizza.

Colonel Harland Sanders

KFC creator
2015
A biography of Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Five quarters of the orange

2002
Sixty-five-year-old Framboise Simon, hiding her true identity, returns to the small town of her youth where she opens a cafe and discovers, hidden in her mother's book of recipes, the true story of the terrible tragedy that took place during the German occupation decades earlier--an event that resulted in her mother being driven from the village.

Ray Kroc, mayor of McDonaldland

1980
A biography of the man whose assembly line methods of preparing food revolutionized the restaurant business and gave birth to the McDonald restaurant chain.

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