Marketing by Menu: A Total Concept - Hardcover

Scanlon, Nancy Loman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0442233124 ISBN 13: 9780442233129

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1990

Synopsis

This text discusses the importance of the menu in creating profitable and successful restaurant and foodservice operations. It also explains the many steps from market surveys to sales histories that are needed to attain and maintain the profit margin.

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From the Back Cover

Your most powerful marketing and management tool is a well–designed menu. Here is how to create one. A menu can make or break a restaurant. To be effective, it must be tailored to your business, help you make profit, and meet the expectations of your customers. This book tells you everything you need to develop a menu program that will ensure the profitability of your restaurant or other foodservice operation. Now in its third edition, Marketing by Menu takes you well into the twenty–first century, covering emerging new markets and the latest trends in home–food replacement services. Fully revised and updated, this edition shows you how to create daily and seasonal menus, catering menus, "healthy eating" programs, and other specialty menus directed at today’s widely diverse clientele. You will get precise, step–by–step guidelines to menu layout and design, content development, and profit considerations including marketing surveys, food costing and pricing, and menu item selection. Complete with work pages to practice the concepts involved, as well as a wealth of real–world examples from restaurants, hotels, and other foodservice operations across the United States and abroad, Marketing by Menu is a one–of–a–kind resource for managers and professionals in the foodservice industry.

About the Author

NANCY LOMAN SCANLON has over twenty–five years of experience in the hospitality industry working with Hilton Hotels Corporation in food and beverage management positions, as Director of Food and Beverage Services for Interstate Hotels, and as a training consultant to companies such as Marriott, Sheraton, Radisson, and Holiday Inn. She has been associated with hospitality management programs at the University of Delaware and Johnson & Wales University, and currently consults with hospitality companies and conducts seminars internationally.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0442233124
• ISBN 13: 9780442233129
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 280