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Principles Of Hospitality

Subject : hospitality
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1. Rooms revenue / Available rooms or paid occupancy percentage * ADR $18000 / 500 = $36 RevPAR






2. Serving our biological needs






3. Business format franchising






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






8. 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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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






21. Serving our social needs






22. Most are 1-2 nights in duration - combining business and pleasure






23. 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






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






25. Participation rate






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






27. Databases that identify guests' occupancy patterns - lengths of stay - demographic information - types of business - and individual customer profiles






28. A product that has not been served before commercially - Egg McMuffin & Chicken McNuggets






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






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






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






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






33. 4 pounds per person per day






34. 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.






35. Guest satisfaction - personal service - accounting for sales






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






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






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






39. The study of objectively measurable characteristics of our population - such as age and income






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. 48% - 50%






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






46. Business format franchising is the type of franchise in hospitality. Includes use of the product (& service) along with access to & use of - all other systems & standards associated with the business.






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. 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






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






50. 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