Tapmaster Hoboken llc | How do you increase your profits with Restaurant Businesses?

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How do you increase your profits with Restaurant
Businesses?

• Tapmaster Hoboken llc

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Objectives

1. Explain the difference between commercial and
   on-site food-service facilities.
2. Identify the various categories of the commercial
   food-service industry.
3. Describe types of restaurant businesses.
4. Identify and explain front-and back-of-the house
   operations.
5. Identify ways restaurants can increase profits.

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Terms to Know

• Hospitals
• Food service available to patients, employees and
  visitors
• Business Cafeterias
• Food service provided to employees
• Corporate businesses
• Concessions
• Small, convenient locations where meals, snacks
  or beverages can be purchased by visitors
• Theatre
• Fair
• Stadium
• Concerts
• Theme Parks

• Banquet
• A meal served to a group of people who all eat
  together at the same time and location
• Catering
• Special events
• Involves feeding a large number of people on a
  variety of occasions and the guests eat at
  varying times
• Specialized Dining
• Restaurants that concentrate on a particular type
  of food or atmosphere
• Cafeterias
• Food service in which the food is displayed along
  a counter where the customer picks it up

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Types of Food Service Locations

• Commercial
• Full Service
• Fine dining- Ruths Chris Steakhouse
• Casual dining-fastest growing
• Golden Corral
• Limited Service Facilities-most profitable
• Quick service facilities
• Boston Market, McDonalds, Starbucks
• Specialty or Specialized Dining
• Theme, ethnic, pizza, chicken, steak, seafood,
  hamburgers

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Types of Food Service Locations

• On-Site Facilities
• Schools
• Health Care Facilities
• Business and Industry
• Chick-Fil-A Corporate Cafeteria
• Military
• Airlines and Airports
• Restaurants in airports and trade shows
• Correctional Facilities
• Convenience Stores

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Types of Restaurant Businesses

• Chain- a type of business that has more than one
  location and is under the same ownership
• Outback
• Olive Garden
• Franchise-An agreement that is set up to allow a
  business to sell a companies products at their
  location
• Subway
• McDonalds
• Independents-Not connected to other well known
  restaurants
• Family Owned

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Restaurants Within Properties

• Private Clubs
• Country Clubs
• Theme Parks
• Disney
• Retail Establishments
• Food courts
• Lodging Establishments
• Denneys next to moderate priced motels

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Restaurant Operations

• General Manager
• Person ultimately responsible for the operation
• Front of the House
• What services would this be?
• Back of the House
• Production and kitchen responsibilities
• Like what?

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Maintaining Inventory

• Periodic Counts (daily and weekly)
• Very important to control shrinkage
• Liquor
• Helps maintain balance between purchases and
  sales
• LIFO/FIFO- inventory control method
• What is Par?
• The amount of a product a restaurant wants to
  keep on hand.
• Missed Delivery
• Spoilage

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How do you increase your profits?

• Controlling variable expenses
• Payroll
• Purchases
• Utilities
• Supplies
• Breakage
• Giveaways
• Leftover food
• Maintaining adequate inventory
• Increase sales
• Increasing unit sales
• Suggestive selling i.e. desserts (high markup)
• Raising prices
• Increase number of customers

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Could you make a profit?