After five years of writing, while developing restaurants, Larry Edger, a Florida businessman, releases his book titled The Restaurant Ebook, A Guide to Keeping Your Dreams off the Chopping Block. Mr. Edger spent then last eleven years building, operating and successfully growing three independent restaurant concepts into flourishing businesses. During the same period he watched as restaurants opened and closed all around him.

“Seeing a business padlocked isn’t the most pleasant sight”, according to Mr. Edger. Admitting that he had no specific restaurant experience before starting on the food and hospitality journey, the author relied on his 25 years of business experience as President of several multi-million dollar corporations. “All I knew are the lessons learned from operating businesses in multiple states and applied those principles to the restaurant business, while ignoring the warnings about how tough the restaurant business was. I had heard that warning in every business!”, states Mr. Edger. The author admits he was not aware that the mortality rate for restaurants was 60% to 90% depending on whose numbers you use.

During the last five years, the author started and stopped the book many times. It was destined for hard copy when the ebook explosion on the Internet and his son convinced him to complete the book and share his experiences. Mr. Edger states that he had visions of completing the book under some palm trees in the Keys, but ended up in the dark hours with the typical writer’s passion and need to focus. “My writing visions were much the same as the dreams of thousands of entrepreneurs who want to open their first restaurant. Reality is a quick wake up call for dreamers”, states Mr. Edger after completing the manuscript.

For the ultimate motivation to buy The Restaurant Ebook, read the Foreward and Epilogue. If that doesn’t motivate you, you don’t need the book!