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Lodging Operations 101
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In a 150 room hotel with housekeeping costs of $8000 and 2 -500 rooms sold in a mont - what would be the hotels labor cost per occupied room for that month
$3.20
Housekeeping
Eggs and breakfast meat items
Profits are higher with banquet sales
2. What is the lodging industry term for a hotel that is not part of a franchise group?
Pilferage
250
Independent
Confirm item quantity and quality
3. Which food service activity happens first
The hotels general manager
Chain
Confirm item quantity and quality
The cost is higher than that of dining room service
4. Which types of food items have labor 'built in' to their prices
Your ADR is higher then that of your competitors
Make or buy items
Management contract
Be an effective way to measure progress toward established service standards
5. What happens in a hotels OPL
Laundry is processed
The elimination of insects - rodents and scavenging animals
Pilferage
$1.38
6. What is true about abandoned property
When resolving hotel operating problems
$13.53
It has been intentionally left behind
Kellogg cereal
7. What is a normal par level in hotel laundry
Costs increase
OTA
3 times the normal usage
Franchisor
8. Who usually maintains the washers and ryers placed in a hotels guests laundry
AAHOA
Emergency maintenance
An outside vendor
Incandescent bulb
9. What is the lodging industry term used to identify the wages and benefits - replacement parts and contract services used to operate a maintenance and engineering department
It has been intentionally left behind
They are important for all workers serving food
Daily
POM
10. which factor most influences guest perceptions about their experience at a lodging operation
At the advertised ending time
Service
$73.00
AAHOA
11. Which term refers to the fact that the decline in value of a hotel asset is generally tax deductible
Older travelers
It is a reception that includes the services of complimentary food and/or beverages
Depreciation
AAHOA
12. what would the occupancy rate for a hotel that has 200 rooms on a day in January In which it sold 100 rooms and received total rooms revenue of $17000
When guests bring in their own bottles of alcohol for consumption at a hotel function
Preventive maintenance
50%
Empowerment
13. What type of lamp works when a filament inside the lamp's bulb is heated by electric current to produce light
Contribution margin
3 times the normal usage
Function rooms
Incandescent bulb
14. What is the lodging industry term for the formal operating agreement between a hotel's owners and a hotel management company
A hotels sales and marketing teams results in relation to those of other hotels
Management contract
250
It is a reception that includes the services of complimentary food and/or beverages
15. Which association is a collection of state-level hotel associations working together to meet the educational - social - and legislative needs of its members
Flag
Incandescent bulb
The ratio of different room types in a hotel
The american hotel and lodging association
16. Which of the following best describes a 'moment of truth'
Older travelers
The number of hotel rooms sold the previous night
It influences the guests total perception of a hotel visit
When guests bring in their own bottles of alcohol for consumption at a hotel function
17. With 200 occupied rooms and breakfast costs of $450 - what would be a hotels breakfast cost per occupied room?
$2.25
They are not being supervised with a service emphasis
Franchise
It is increasingly viewed by guests a a sign of commitment to quality service
18. What is the approximate amount of money that hoteliers should contribute to a property's FF&E reserve
250
It is prepared and cooked at the guests' table
Costs increase
2-4% gross revenue
19. What is true about second-tier management companies
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20. What is the purpose of an MSDS
Guest preference
To help keep workers safe
The cost is higher than that of dining room service
It is increasingly viewed by guests a a sign of commitment to quality service
21. Which is the missing entry in the following formula when a hotel utilizes an accural accounting system? (Beginning inventory of food+_____) - ending food of food inventory=food cost
POM
Purchases of food
To help keep workers safe
Pilferage
22. What does STAR report evaluate
Be an effective way to measure progress toward established service standards
A hotels sales and marketing teams results in relation to those of other hotels
They should be update as guest preferences change over time
$2.20
23. What is the travel industry term used to describe a group of travel services - such as hotel rooms - meals - and airfare - sold for one price
Costs increase
A reunion held for veterans of the vietnam war
Package
All housekeeping employees
24. What is another lodging term for work-order
A hotels sales and marketing teams results in relation to those of other hotels
Maintenance request
Costs increase
All housekeeping employees
25. In the small town of someko - michigan there are 5 hotels with a combined total of 650 sleeping rooms. during june an avg. of 400 of those rooms were sold each day - generating $29 -200 in room sales. What was the average daily rate (ADR) of the town
AAHOA
Incandescent bulb
To help keep workers safe
$73.00
26. What is true about abandoned property
It has been intentionally left behind
50000
The host pays for the beverages cosumed by guests
Effectively answer open-ended questions about hypothetical service situations
27. Which housekeeping- related term is not used by professional hoteliers
The number of hotel rooms sold the previous night
Presale activity
The investor seeks a return on investment (ROI)
Maid
28. What is true about hotel management companies
A college graduation weekend occurring near a hotel
28
Confirm item quantity and quality
They generally manage hotels for a fee
29. Which is an example of a branded breakfast item
Improved overall managment of the hotel
$2.25
Kellogg cereal
GDS
30. Each of the following events would require one or more guest rooms - which would be classified as a SMERF
When guests bring in their own bottles of alcohol for consumption at a hotel function
A reunion held for veterans of the vietnam war
Ritz carlton
The number of hotel rooms sold the previous night
31. What is the type of dining in which each available menu item is sold for an individual price
Www.tripadvisor.com
A la carte
Deep cleaning
Be an effective way to measure progress toward established service standards
32. Which of a hotel's costs would be lowered the most if the hotel implemented a successful source reduction program
Franchisors sales and marketing efforts
The hotel's executive housekeeper in keeping with the hotel policies and procedures
Waste disposal costs
Attrition
33. Which method would be least effective for determining guests' needs and wants
Waiting for guests to approach staff with specific problems
An outside vendor
To help keep workers safe
Needles left by intravenous drug users
34. How can guest service best be integrated with employee reward systems
Profits are higher with banquet sales
The strength of the brand name and the revenue the name will bring to the hotel
By associating performance in providing guest service with employee compensation
Do not clean this room now
35. Which group of housekeeping employees should receive blood born pathogen training
All housekeeping employees
Pilferage
It has been intentionally left behind
Older travelers
36. Which factor has the most impact on the number of guests who will be served in a limited service hotel
A hotels sales and marketing teams results in relation to those of other hotels
They are important for all workers serving food
Merchant model
The number of hotel rooms sold the previous night
37. What is the greatest difference between full service and limited service hotels
The food and beverage services offered by the hotel
The hotel's executive housekeeper in keeping with the hotel policies and procedures
28
20%
38. What is the lodging term for the fans and mechanical systems required to move air through a hotel's air ducts and vents
2-4% gross revenue
The cost is higher than that of dining room service
Do not clean this room now
Air handlers
39. What does Amtrak operate
Licensing
Guest preference
Attrition
Trains
40. Which company's motto is 'we are ladies and gentlemen serving Ladies and gentlemen'
Be an effective way to measure progress toward established service standards
Ritz carlton
A family on vacation
Publicity is free
41. When can a cross-functional team be an effective operatiional tool in a hotel
20%
Water pumps
$2.25
When resolving hotel operating problems
42. A CVB is typically funded by what
A hotels occupancy tax
Improved overall managment of the hotel
It has been intentionally left behind
Water pumps
43. Which group would be classified as 'leisure travelers'
50%
A family on vacation
Maid
250
44. What is true about transient travelers
Contribution margin
It matches expenses incurred with revenues generated
They are individual travelers
POM
45. What is true about the cost of providing room service meals
Merchant model
OTA
The cost is higher than that of dining room service
28
46. In a full service hotel What is true abouth the profitability of banquet food sales compared to that of dining room sales?
20%
Water pumps
The authority to make key decisions
Profits are higher with banquet sales
47. What is the management term for granting authority to employees to make key decisions within their assigned areas of responsibility
It has been intentionally left behind
Profits are higher with banquet sales
Empowerment
OTA
48. Which area would be considered public space in a hotel
Eggs and breakfast meat items
$13.53
Preventive maintenance
The pool area
49. In a hotel guest room - Which is a potential source of HIV
An outside vendor
Needles left by intravenous drug users
Preventive maintenance
The buying is based upon predetermined desired inventory levels
50. What is the industry term for an organization that provides travel booking services on the internet
$73.00
It is a reception that includes the services of complimentary food and/or beverages
OTA
They are important for all workers serving food