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Food and Beverage Management

Structure Type: Study unit
Code: RBS2205
Type: Optional obligatory / Professional Studies
Curriculum: R-TRB 2008
Level: Bachelor of Hospitality Management
Year of Study: 3 (2010-2011)
Credits: 6 cr
Responsible Teacher: Lahola, Eliisa
Language of Instruction: English

Courses During the Academic Year 2010-2011

Impl.Study TimeTeacher(s)LanguageEnrolment
22010-10-25 – 2010-12-17Eliisa Lahola, Helena AlamäkiEnglish2010-10-04 – 2010-10-29

Learning Outcomes

The student gets familiar with the basics of planning of premises and understands the significance of it according to customers comfortability. The student understand the impact of ergonomics for staff and customers. The students can do an HACCP-plan and understands how to estimate the need of cleaning.
The student is able to make a staff plan for a restaurant establishment, can plan menus and beverage lists, can implement the menu analysis. The student understand the significance of standards in maintaining the quality in the restaurant. She understands the key ratios and can use them in planning the functions, she can analyze sales and understands affect of pricing to the profitability of a restaurant.

Student's Workload

Total work: 162 h
Contact lessons:78 h
Group work, assingment, project work, studying for
the exam.
Independent studies: 84 h

Prerequisites / Recommended Optional Courses

Meal Experiance, Product Development and Sensory Evaluation. Banquet Management, Restaurant service, Restaurant beverages and Legislation.

Contents

Planning menus and drink lists, menu analyses, licensing permits, pricing, interpretation of various reports, follow up of sales and results, profitability parameters, the principle of HACCP for kitchens. Kitchen, bar, restauant and storage space planning in view of the methods of production and the degree of processing of raw materials. Planning of the storage and the key figures.

Recommended or Required Reading and Other Learning Resources/Tools

Drysdale, A.J., 1998. Profitable menu planning. 2nd edition. New Jersey. Prentice Hall.

Fattorini, J.E., 1997. Managing Wine and Wine Sales.

Davis,B., Lockwood,A., Pantelidis, I., Alcott, P.,2008. Food and Beverage Management.

Walker, J. 2008. The Restaurant from concept to operation

Mode of Delivery / Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, cases, supervised projets, excursions.

Assessment Criteria

Excellent 5

The student can evaluate the functions and the result of a restaurant based on the sales analysis and result calculation. She can develop the functions in order to improve the profitability and can make a plan for internal control.


Good 3
The student can evaluate the functions of the dining room and the kitchen. He/she can evaluate the need of cleaning. The student can interpret HACCP-plan to develop the quality.
The student can use the sales analysis and key ratios in planning the functions in a restaurant. She can make the work standards for different tasks.


Satisfactory 1
The student can define a good dining room and working space environment. The student can interpret the need of cleaning and the HACCP-plan.
The student can make food- and beverage lists according to the business idea. She can anaylze sales and count the main key ratios.

Assessment Methods

Project work, exam. Numeric scale (0-5).


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