Product Review

Want to welcome interesting guests into your home and turn spare rooms into cash? Twenty for Breakfast takes you behind the scenes of a thriving urban Bed & Breakfast. Unable to cope with leisure following early retirement, author Pat Materka opened a nine-room B&B overlooking the University of Michigan campus. With humor and candor, she shares the innkeeping challenges of hiring help, marketing while renovating, and building relationships that make an inn run…and fun. Unabashedly upbeat yet candid and down-to-earth, Twenty for Breakfast is a unique hybrid of memoir and how-to, full of anecdotes, checklists, can’t-fail recipes, and practical advice for aspiring Airbnb and B&B innkeepers. Whether you’re thinking of dipping a toe in the water of hosting online travellers or launching a boutique inn, you’ll find entertainment, ideas, and insight in Twenty for Breakfast.