KEY BENEFIT: Written from a chefs' perspective, this hands-on, practical book includes the formulas for success and profitability that every restaurateur should know. KEY TOPICS: This book provides an overview of cost controlling, and discusses the technology available for controlling costs. It covers controls in purchasing, receiving, production, forecasts in sales, and controls in sales and revenue. MARKET: For restaurateurs and restaurant managers.
Professional foodservice managers are faced with a wide array of challenges on a daily basis. Controlling costs, setting budgets, and pricing goods are essential for success in any hospitality or culinary business. Food and Beverage Cost Control provides the tools required to maintain sales and cost histories, develop systems for monitoring current activities, and forecast future costs. This detailed yet reader-friendly guide helps students and professionals alike understand and apply practical techniques to effectively manage food and beverage costs. Now in its seventh edition, this extensively revised and updated book examines the entire cycle of cost control, including purchasing, production, sales analysis, product costing, food cost formulas, and much more. Each chapter presents complex ideas in a clear, easy-to-understand style. Micro-case studies present students with real-world scenarios and problems, while step-by-step numerical examples highlight the arithmetic necessary to understand cost control-related concepts. Covering everything from food sanitation to service methods, this practical guide helps readers enhance their knowledge of the hospitality management industry and increase their professional self-confidence.
In this text, a leading hospitality educator and industry consultant gives readers the means to ensure customer satisfaction and produce acceptable profit margins. Two new chapters review different methods of cost control strategy and operations, including information systems and computerized cost control.
Provides the theory, instruction, and practical skills needed to manage the functions of cost control, setting budgets and accurately pricing goods and services in the hospitality management and culinary business. --From publisher description.
Thorough coverage of food and beverage cost control strategies that can be taken from the classroom to the workplace! The material presented in this book represents a thorough coverage of the most essential cost-control categories. There are 14 chapters within the six cost-analysis sections of the Operating Cycle of Control. The sections flow in a logical sequence that presents a path for understanding cost control from menu concept to financial reporting. The six cost-analysis sections are self-contained, so that the reader (student) can go to any section for specific cost-control procedures. Therefore, the book can be taken from the classroom to the workplace. New to this edition: • Clearly defined chapter learning objectives with end-of-chapter discussion questions that can assess readers (students) level of comprehension. • Project exercises following each chapter that are designed to test applied knowledge. • Restaurant Reality Stories that reflect upon what often occurs in restaurant businesses are appropriately placed within each of the 6 sections of the Operating Cycle of Control. • Mobile foodservice (food trucks and trailers) is presented in the Appendix—Restaurant Case and concludes with a project exercise to create a food-truck menu, as well as operational and marketing plans for a mobile foodservice as an additional business revenue source for the existing three-tiered restaurant operation case. • Key Cost and Analysis Formulas (Quick Reference)
Revenue Management, Cost Control and Financial Analysis in the Hospitality Industry uses a step-by-step spreadsheet approach to accounting and financial analysis. It teaches students budgeting and other financial competencies needed in the hospitality industry and was designed for students and managers to use with little or no facilitation by an instructor. The book begins with an introduction to financial analysis and spreadsheet modeling. Subsequent chapters focus on specific skills such as forecasting, revenue management, and cost control, which support the maximization of profits. Readers will create annual operating budgets, analyze financial statements, and understand the impact of each variable on the organization's performance. Filled with examples and scenarios that are real-world applicable, the material focuses on the facts and solutions needed to solve accounting and financial problems. Revenue Management, Cost Control and Financial Analysis in the Hospitality Industry can be used in hospitality accounting and finance courses. It is also a helpful supplement for courses in recreation and sports management, and a useful resource for current and future hospitality managers. Godwin-Charles Ogbeide is a faculty member in the Department of Food, Human Nutrition, and Hospitality Management at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. He has developed and taught many courses in the field of hospitality management including Food, Beverage, and Labor Cost Management; Front Office Revenue Management; Meetings, Events and Conventions Management; and Hospitality Operations and Financial Analysis. Dr. Ogbeide received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees with emphasis in Hospitality Management and Leadership Development from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He also has an M.B.A. and more than 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry. Dr. Ogbeide is a winner of many awards including several "innovation awards."
Foodservice operators have the advantage of using point of sale system applications and tablets. While the POS system is an efficient tool to process information, analyze customer guest check orders, and track employees, it doesn’t uproot the need for foodservice operators to understand, process, and interpret that same important information. Edward Sanders, foodservice industry veteran and college professor, introduces culinary and hospitality management students to information essential for the successful management of foodservice operations. His coverage is thorough, and the logically sequenced topics include writing a standardized HACCP Recipe, determining portion costs, using menu popularity percentages, calculating seat turnover rates and server productivity, preparing a sales forecast, completing an income statement, and much more. The author clearly explains the reasoning behind strategies and methods presented in each chapter in addition to highlighting the benefits of POS system applications and tablets. Well-thought-out assignments assess students’ level of understanding.
The success of every business in the hospitality industry depends on maximizing revenues and minimizing costs. Hospitality Man-agement Accounting, Ninth Edition continues its time-tested presentation of fundamental concepts and analytical techniques that are essential to taking control of real-world accounting systems, evaluating current and past operations, and effectively managing finances toward increased profits. This accessible Ninth Edition offers hands-on coverage of computer applications and practical decision-making skills to successfully prepare readers for the increasingly complex and competitive hospitality industry.
The objective of this textbook is to teach students to be conversational in speaking “numbers.” This means understanding fundamental accounting concepts, developing solid financial analysis abilities, and then applying them to understand and improve the operational performance of their hotel or restaurant. The book will accomplish this by studying the current practices of some of today’s leading hotel and restaurant companies. Chapters will be developed under the auspices of a select group of hospitality industry General Mangers, Directors of Finance, and Regional Accounting Managers to ensure that the information is current, accurate and useful. Understanding and applying the information will be the main focus of this book. This textbook should provide hospitality managers the knowledge and experience to be comfortable in using numbers to operate their departments. This includes developing the ability to perform all accounting and financial aspects of their position efficiently and correctly including revenue forecasting, wage scheduling, budgeting, P&L critiques, purchasing procedures and cost control methods. As a result, they will have more time to spend on the floor with their customers and employees. This knowledge will help them understand their operations and how to improve, change or expand them to increase revenues or profits.
