Abstract: This second edition is designed for the student and layperson who are, or who may become involved with the lodging industry. The book alerts hotel and restaurant operators to a number of potential legal problems. The text includes discussions on general laws (contracts, torts, negligence); hotel-guest relationship laws (reservations, special groups, privacy, eviction); hotel's duties to guests and others (liability, loss); restaurants, food service and bars; the hotel and its employees (discrimination, National Labor Relations Act, social security); and laws relating to general hotel operation (public health, consumer protection, Occupational Safety and Health Act, fire safety, taxes.