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Principles Of Hospitality

Subject : hospitality
Instructions:
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1. One person taking a trip 100 miles or more from home






2. Stopover - draw people from nearby areas or induce people to stop on the way by - Sports centers - zoos & aquariums - museums






3. Educating consumers & acting as advocates - influence social change in an effort to protect rights of consumer. A modern movement for the protection of the consumer against useless - inferior - or dangerous products - misleading advertising - unfair






4. The attributes (of service) that the customer cannot grasp with any of the five senses.






5. Prosumption; Customer involvement with the production of service.






6. All actions & reactions that customers perceive they have purchased. Is performed for the guest by people or by systems such as remote check in/out. Performance of the organization and its staff.






7. Guest room rental






8. Must keep in mind 3 objectives: 1 - making the guest welcome personally 2 - making things work fro the guests 3 - making sure that the operation will continue to provide service and meet budget






9. Are guests encounters; Any time a staff member has the opportunity to make the guest happy; Every hospitality organization has thousands of these every day; Service provider and customer must work together in order for the service to be successful; T






10. The person who applies to productive work ideas - concepts - and information






11. Total dollar sales / Number of guests served during the period






12. 4 pounds per person per day






13. 1. Electronic-mechanical - range from vending machines to such services as automated check in/out 2. Indirect personal - include telephone or email contacts such as hotel reservations - reservation desk at a restaurant - a room-service taker - housek






14. Includes hotels & restaurants as well as many other types of institutions that offer shelter and/or food (& entertainment - etc.) to people away from home.






15. The individual diner - patient - student - or resident.






16. The collection of productive businesses and government organizations that serve the traveler away from home.






17. Guest satisfaction - personal service - accounting for sales






18. Allow customers to call a central - toll-free number and make a reservation with any property in the system






19. The reception & entertainment of guests - visitors - or strangers with liberality and goodwill. Institutions that offer shelter - food - or both to people away from home. Hotels - restaurants - casinos - attractions - etc.






20. Number of guests






21. Technological methods of efficient property maintenance and management






22. Business format franchising






23. Participation rate






24. Reduced - free - low - healthy - light - lean - symbols - heart - apple






25. Consumers are concerned about their health & about pleasing themselves. Sometimes they act on their concerns & sometimes on their need for pleasure. Sometimes they watch what they eat at home - but are less careful when dining out.






26. Property Management System - Computer programs that provide more efficiently the information needed to personnel who need to know. Integrates all systems - reservations - front desk - housekeeping - food & beverage - & accounting






27. Computer programs used throughout a hotel to keep track of guest registration - reservations - guest folio management - room selections - accounting - supply inventory - and purchasing






28. Owner of a franchise & possibly land - building - furniture & fixtures or a lease on them. Responsible for hiring employees - supervising daily operations & generally representing themselves in the community as independent businesspeople.






29. More you buy the cheaper it is - Purchasing economies






30. Identifies groups of customers and prospects who share sufficient characteristics in common that a product and service can be designed and brought to market for their needs.






31. Server suggesting something for meal - e.g. 'X wine goes well with Y dish'






32. Sales - catering - purchasing - inventory - time - attendance - labor scheduling






33. 48% - 50%






34. Provide electronic connections between hotels and other travel-related companies






35. Kept at front desk is made up of bills owed by guests in the house.






36. People's different patterns of activities - interests and opinions.






37. The product (service) can be touched or felt






38. Product - The guest experience - the food plus the server Price - Value pricing - prices in line with customer expectations Place - Location - multiply the number of places in which their product can be offered Promotion - Advertising - conducted th


39. Quick Service Restaurants - simplification & standardized purchasing - production & service - convenient - McDonald's






40. A product new to that establishment's menu. Wendy's adding baked potato as an entree.






41. Charges made by guests after checked out & charges by other persons not hotel guests






42. Want the traditional lobby floor attractions of a full-service hotel: dining rooms - cocktail lounges - meeting & banquet rooms - etc. Are willing to pay for extras either because are necessary or they can afford them






43. Theme restaurants in which the diner's experience is centered in the entertainment provided by the restaurant's stage-set-like decor - Hard Rock Cafe - Dave & Buster's. Combine food with various kinds of entertainment - relatively new on scene.






44. What you find upstairs in a hotel - guest rooms - give up extra services for a lower price






45. 1. Increase sales 2. Reduce costs






46. Dollar sales / Number of rooms sold $18000 / 300 = $60 ADR






47. Not a restaurant - a delivery method features American comfort foods - chicken - turkey & ham prepared like consumer would make at home - home style cooking. Pizza - Boston Market






48. Measure the effect of initial spending together with the chain of expenditures that result. For example - a dollar spent in a hotel - some portion of it goes to employees - suppliers - and owners who in turn re-spend it.






49. Ties the food or meal with health status or disease prevention - usually relates to & mentions a specific disease.






50. 1. Increase customer base by advertising & promotions 2. Increase sales to current customers by menu redesign - bundling & suggestive selling.