He has over 20 years of hospitality management and ownership experience. From 1989 to 1995, John was an Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama. In 1995 he left the university to take over as Vice President of a regional restaurant chain until the call came to go back to school not long ago. He is currently Associate Professor and Department Head of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management at Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
Self now provides workshops and seminars to the hospitality industry.
John is also a co-founder of Restaurant Voice. Click here now to read John's latest work. Same old, same old Alas, the concept of a whole new millennium and all it entails should be starting to dawn on the restaurant business just as it is on other service industries, with the glow of bright and wonderful prospects. Pass the ketchup, it s business as usual. Looking back on just the last couple of decades has, for the most part, been painful for the restaurant industry.