Product Description

The Tea Room is featured in the Midwest edition of Country Living Magazine - February 1, 2004. This book is about how to start and run a business or tea room and gift store. The book contains Joyce Whitaker's story and how she went from being a wife fro 20 years, then 18 years as a writer and her experiences starting her own tea room from scratch over the past 10 years. It shows the good and the bad experience...nothing is left out about her real life story. This book should be read by anyone considering starting their own business. Tea room owners and women in business should read the book and avoid many costly mistakes. Joyce's life story tells of her becoming the Vice President of four corporations with NO college education. Any woman will relate to her trials and successes immediately.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #709554 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-10
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

Just my cup of tea!
If you are serious about starting a tea business, look no further. This book gives you ALL the details, start to finish. It is one of the most comprehensive books I have ever read. It was so insightful that I realized I was in over my head!! I recommend it for anyone considering a business like this.

How to Start Your Own Tea Room...by Whitaker
This book gives a fair overview of the details involved in opening a restaurant and gift shop, though it appears her main purpose is to get the reader to sign up for her consulting service. The book is not well written and you have to wonder about a tea room owner who misspells Earl Grey tea as "Earl Gray"! However, a reader with absolutely no background in opening a business will find that this book offers some good basic information and will cause you to consider whether opening such a business is really right for you to do.

SAVE YOUR MONEY!
This poorly written, self-published book is nothing but a pathetic attempt to generate business for the author's consulting firm, which she hawks in every chapter. She continually alludes to information that is never provided, although she eventually offers to sell the information for an additional fee. Her self-promotion is interspersed with incessant whining about Ohio's "evil" building inspectors, whose only real fault was that they had the audacity to actually enforce the building codes in her state. There is litle information of real value in this book and it will quickly be apparent why it was self-published.