Service America!

Service America!
Author: Karl Albrecht
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1990
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780446390927

The acclaimed bestseller that revolutionized the way American companies think about their customers, Service America! is a must-read for executives, entrepreneurs, and managers who want to catch the tidal wave of change sweeping the economy.

Service America in the New Economy

Service America in the New Economy
Author: Karl Albrecht
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In this world of technological commerce customer loyalty is waning. This guide, using innovative techniques and methodologies combined with real-life examples, provides insight into strategies to confront the either do it bigger or do it better imperative and the truth of what service means.

Ford in the Service of America

Ford in the Service of America
Author: Timothy J. O’Callaghan
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009-09-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

"Ford Motor Company's products during World Wars I and II: jeeps, Eagle Boats, B-24 Liberators, squad tents, the ultra precision gun director, tanks, and aircraft engines. Details of how Ford produced each product are included. During both wars, Ford used precision manufacturing methods and innovative designs and procedures, increasing quality while lowering production costs"--Provided by publisher.

Seven Days a Week

Seven Days a Week
Author: David M. Katzman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1981
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780252008825

At America's Service

At America's Service
Author: Karl Albrecht
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780446393164

From the coauthor of the business bestseller Service America! comes an essential, comprehensive, practical manual for implementing service management strategies that work. Albrecht focuses on issues and problems such as building a service culture, how to get managers to think in new ways, common mistakes and more.

Remarkable Service

Remarkable Service
Author: The Culinary Institute of America (CIA)
Publisher: Wiley Global Education
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1118805402

Remarkable Service has been a leading guide to restaurant service techniques and principles for the past decade. In its all-new edition , a complete reorganized and updated look at table service and foodservice management is provided, including everything from setting up a dining room and taking orders to executing wine service and handling customer complaints. Remarkable Service, Third Edition features all-new photography throughout, as well as a foreword by restaurateur Danny Meyer, whose restaurants are legendary for their world-class service. New “Scripts for Service Scenarios” throughout the book provide real-world examples to help readers practice tasks like taking a reservation, recommending a dish, and communicating with kitchen staff. This text is a vital resource for culinary professional, meant to be used as both a development tool for lifelong learning and an essential text for those taking table service and dining room management courses.

Remarkable Service

Remarkable Service
Author: The Culinary Institute of America
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2009-05-04
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0470197404

As competition for customers is constantly increasing, contemporary restaurants must distinguish themselves by offering consistent, high-quality service. Service and hospitality can mean different things to different foodservice operations, and this book addresses the service needs of a wide range of dining establishments, from casual and outdoor dining to upscale restaurants and catering operations. Chapters cover everything from training and hiring staff, preparation for service, front-door hospitality to money handling, styles of modern table service, front-of-the-house safety and sanitation, serving diners with special needs, and service challenges—what to do when things go wrong. Remarkable Service is the most comprehensive guide to service and hospitality on the market, and this new edition includes the most up-to-date information available on serving customers in the contemporary restaurant world.

Inside a U.S. Embassy

Inside a U.S. Embassy
Author: Shawn Dorman
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1612344674

Inside a U.S. Embassy is widely recognized as the essential guide to the Foreign Service. This all-new third edition takes readers to more than fifty U.S. missions around the world, introducing Foreign Service professionals and providing detailed descriptions of their jobs and firsthand accounts of diplomacy in action. In addition to profiles of diplomats and specialists around the world-from the ambassador to the consular officer, the public diplomacy officer to the security specialist-is a selection from more than twenty countries of day-in-the-life accounts, each describing an actual day on.

America's National Park System

America's National Park System
Author: Lary M. Dilsaver
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2016-02-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1442256842

Now in a fully updated edition, this invaluable reference work is a fundamental resource for scholars, students, conservationists, and citizens interested in America's national park system. The extensive collection of documents illustrates the system's creation, development, and management. The documents include laws that established and shaped the system; policy statements on park management; Park Service self-evaluations; and outside studies by a range of scientists, conservation organizations, private groups, and businesses. A new appendix includes summaries of pivotal court cases that have further interpreted the Park Service mission.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service
Author: Cindy Sondik Aron
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 1987
Genre: Civil service
ISBN: 0195048741

Drawing from workers' applications, testimonies, and other primary documents, this book examines the changing roles of federal civil servants during the crucial period between 1860 and 1900 as they formed part of the first white-collar bureaucracy in the United States.