restaurateurs

A biography of Ray Kroc, founder of the McDonald's hamburger chain.

A biography of the man who founded Wendy's, one of the nation's largest restaurant chains.

"In his memoir Restaurant Man, Joe Bastianich charts his culinary journey from working in his parents' red-sauce joint to becoming one of the country's most successful restauranteurs. Joe first learned the ropes from his father, Felice Bastianich, the ultrapragmatic, self-proclaimed restaurant man. After college and a year on Wall Street, Joe bought a one-way ticket to Italy and worked in restaurants and vineyards. Upon his return to New York, he partnered with his mother Lidia, and soon joined forces with Mario Batali, establishing one superlative restaurant after another"--.

Heiress Andy Kendricks wants no part of the Junior League life and chooses a normal job and lower class friends. When her friend Molly is accused of killing her boss at the sleazy local restaurant "Jugs," Andy is on the scene, trying to clear Molly's name.

Photographs and brief text describes some of the people involved in running a restaurant, along with their duties.

Ella Brady, hoping to capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s through the end of the century by filming a documentary on the popular restaurant, Quentins, and its owners, Patrick and Brenda Brennan, begins to wonder if there are some stories that are just too precious to be told.

A biography of Ray Kroc, including his success story beginning with his childhood in Oak Park, Illinois.

Angela DeSaria Malone's visions of a perfect marriage, home, and children crumble under the weight of lost dreams and she returns to her home in West End where she unexpectedly meets a man who teaches her how to love again and gets to know a seventeen-year-old girl whose own mother abandoned her.

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.