* Preparation of food so that service users have choice of food and drink whilst…
Sex Discrimination Act 1975 is to protect men and women against discrimination or harassment on the grounds of their gender. This can include education, employment, facilities or goods. Discrimination against someone due to their sexual orientation is against the law. If anyone feels that they are being discriminated against, they should then seek legal help. The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which protects men and women from discrimination on the grounds of sex or marriage. The Act concerned employment, training, education, harassment, the provision of goods and services, and the disposal of premises. Sex discrimination can arise in relation to: the arrangements made for deciding who should be offered employment such as short listing and interviews, the terms upon which employment is offered. Refusing or deliberately omitting to offer employment, the ways in which access to opportunities for promotion, transfer, and training or other benefits, facilities or services are offered, dismissal or any other detriment.…
The nature of the products and services provided in the restaurant industry are based on customer satisfaction with the food and services that each location provides. Providing a selection of delicious and well-presented food made with quality ingredients that are simple and good tasting is exactly what the customer wants. Most customers go to restaurants to meet with others socially in a friendly environment. Making sure the restaurant is clean, attractive, and the décor is consistent with the food and restaurant’s image and making sure the waiting staff knows that it is ok to allow customers to linger adds to the customer’s satisfaction in a restaurant. The restaurant industry is highly competitive in terms of price, service, location, and food quality and is often affected by changes in consumer trends, economic conditions, demographics, and the concerns about the nutritional content of the food.…
Food service managers have a lot of tasks and responsibilities to deal with when running a small restaurant. Before becoming a manager over a restaurant there are tasks that must be met, tasks such as knowing the operations of being a manager. (Operation managers include owners and managers who head small businesses whose duties are primarily management). (The duties and responsibilities of an operation manager include formulating policies, managing daily operations, and planning the use of materials and human resources) (“General and operations manager”, 2010, para.1).…
This case describes the operations of a limited menu restaurant, Mongols BBQ to illustrate the operating system, cost structure, areas of competitive advantage, basic process analysis in a service situation (peak and non-peak hours) and recommendations for future developments.…
The survey that was conducted took six general restaurant attributes and evaluated their importance to customers from 1 (not important at all) to 7 (very important). The six attributes included food quality (tangibles), quick service (responsiveness), reasonable prices (assurance), large portions (tangibles), good atmosphere (tangibles) and competent employees (empathy). From the survey our consensus of the general importance of these attributes are as follows:…
References: and bibliography Clark, G and Johnston, R (2005). Service operations management: improving service delivery. 2nd ed. Harlow: Financial Times/Prentice Hall. Jayawardena, C. (1994). 'Service Concepts '. In: R Kotas and C Jayawardena Profitable food and beverage management . London: Hodder&Stoughton. pp. 170191. The Nando 's story. (2010). The Nando 's story. Available at: http://www.nandos.co.uk/default/ABS8/The_Story.html. Accessed on 07 December 2010. Additional reading Cousins, J.A. (2002). Food and beverage management. 2nd ed. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited. Jones, P and Merricks, P (1994). The Management of foodservice operations. London: Cassell Khan, M.A (1991). Concepts of foodservice operations and management. New York, London: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Lovelock, C; Vandermerwe, S; Lewis B (1999) Services Marketing: A European Perspective, London: Prentice Hall. Lundberg, D E. (1993). The restaurant: from concept to operation. 2 nd ed. New York: Wiley&Sons, Inc. Mintel. (2009). Restaurant Service Trends – UK September 2009. Available at: http://0academic.mintel.com.emu.londonmet.ac.uk/sinatra/oxygen_academic/search _results/show&/display/id=440640 Accessed on 07 December 2010. Slack, N; Chambers, S; Johnson, R (2004), Operations Management, 4 th ed. London: Pearson Higher Education Wright, J.N. (1999). The management of service operations. London: Cassell. Yeoman, I (2000). Yield management. 2nd ed. London:Continuum.…
Oh,H. and Pizam, A. 2008. Handbook of Hospitality Marketing Management. illustrated ed. s. l.: Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 0080450806, 9780080450803…
The purpose of this report is to investigate a professional food and beverage management and operation system. Accordingly, this report will be divided into 2 parts: 1. Understand different food and beverage production and service systems. 2. Understand the financial controls used in food and beverage operations.…
Describe with examples, some of the characteristics of food production and food beverage service systems that is in use within the hospitality industry.…
Looking at previous studies, the hotel management should establish a system to observe their customers’ want and their views on service quality in order to support finding out and effective decision strategy. (Vijayadurai, 2008). In this industry, the key factors in retaining existing customers is, customer satisfaction and loyalty which is largely dependant upon the service quality offered by hotels. After globalization, in order to attract many foreign and domestic tourists, hotels have been faced with the challenge of improving quality of the service offered in many ways. (Vijayadurai, 2008).…
Sustaining these core processes are various support processes, such asresearch and development, human resources, accounting, purchasing, oper-ations, training, marketing, and customer satisfaction. Even restaurant oper-ations are viewed from a process focus. Key processes such as Cash Regis-ter, Steam Table, Drive-Thru, Tables, Bussers, and Management are designedto ensure that customer needs are served in a timely manner. Prior to open-ing each restaurant, training sessions ensure that these processes are per-formed correctly and according to company standards…
In the 1960s,, the Gold Bond Stamp Company expanded into the hospitality industry with the acquisition of the Radisson Hotel in downtown Minneapolis…
This course is designed to enhance the knowledge, skills, and attitude in food and beverage services in accordance with industry standards. It provides students overview and actual demonstrations of the realities in providing link between kitchen and service areas, providing room service, providing food and beverage service, developing and updating of food and beverage knowledge provided in hotel, restaurants, bars and other related service establishments.…
The hotel is very careful never to compromise the quality of its service in order to cut costs. Good service means that guest s return again and again. The more guests, the higher utilization of rooms and restaurants, so in the end, it’s the quality of our service which keeps the hotel’s volume high and costs low.…