Restaurant Management: Customers, Operations and Employees - Hardcover

Mill, Robert Christie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130273643 ISBN 13: 9780130273642

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

Synopsis

For undergraduate courses in Introduction to Food and Beverage Operations, Culinary Management, and Food and Beverage Management.

Exceptionally comprehensive yet accessible, this text identifies the crucial elements involved in the operation of a restaurant, and their interrelationships that are necessary to achieve success. It shows, clearly and in detail, how to balance customer satisfaction and employee productivity in order to manage operations (food and beverage items and the physical facility) at a profit.

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From the Back Cover

The successful restaurateur coordinates front-and back-of-the-house, food and beverage, employees, and customers into what some have called the "Meal Experience." Successful managers plan, organize, and control all of these elements.

Restaurant Management: Customers, Operations, and Employees, Second Edition combines academic research with practitioner wisdom and presents the results in a way that is simple to understand and easy to implement.

Supplementing the core text material are practical vignettes illustrating each of the chapter objectives. Features on hot restaurant concepts and practical tips on management skills for the new millennium provide the reader with ideas and lessons on how to be successful in this most exciting and challenging industry.

Thisnew edition of Restaurant Management: Customers, Operations, and Employees equips readers with a blueprint that outlines the information required to operate a financially successful operation.

Readers of this book will learn how to:

• identify the factors that make the difference between success and failure in running a restaurant
• develop a marketing plan to attract customers
• design and price a menu for maximum promotional effect
• provide service to the customer that will make them want to return
• design the front of the house to add to the customer experience
• design the back of the house to increase employee productivitydevelop procedures for effective purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing of items
• prevent foodborne diseases
• analyze financial statements systematically to determine the profitability
• efficiently staff the restaurant with quality employees

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130273643
• ISBN 13: 9780130273642
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 436