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Principles Of Hospitality

Subject : hospitality
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1. Most are 1-2 nights in duration - combining business and pleasure






2. 1. Product or trade name franchising 2. Business format franchising






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






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






5. Average dollar amount of check - average sale per guest






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






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






8. Touring - have a wide market & draw travelers from great distances - Grand Canyon - Disney World - Las Vegas






9. 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.






10. 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






11. Participation rate






12. 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


13. Serving our social needs






14. May not require any skills - dishwasher - busser - etc. - but knowledge can be learned from these jobs.






15. Provide guest service and information. Knows the right restaurant - best shows - and can get reservations or tickets






16. 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






17. Business format franchising






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






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






20. The quality of the food the guest is served - food safety - sanitation - food cost control






21. 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.






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






23. 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






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






25. 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.






26. Market segment for lodging business that originates from five primary sources: Social - Military - Educational - Religious & Fraternal






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






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






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






30. Number of guests






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. Rooms revenue / Available rooms or paid occupancy percentage * ADR $18000 / 500 = $36 RevPAR






36. Made up of both money and knowledge to be gained from any job






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. 4 pounds per person per day






43. One person taking a trip 100 miles or more from home






44. Involves varying room rates according to the demand for rooms in any given time period. Based on combining a history of room demand with current forecast for demand. Get the best combination of occupancy & ADR. No need to sell rooms at a discount if






45. 1. Increase sales 2. Reduce costs






46. 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






47. 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.






48. Visit family and friends






49. 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






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