Food and Beverage Cost Control

By Lea R. Dopson, David K. Hayes, Jack E. Miller

Book Overview

Broad, helpful guidance and information for controlling costs for foodservice managers and students In order for foodservice managers to control costs effectively, they must have a confident command of accounting, marketing, and legal issues, as well as food and beverage sanitation, production, and service methods. This fully updated Third Edition of Food and Beverage Cost Control provides students and managers with the wide-ranging knowledge and specific solutions they need to keep costs low and margins high. Throughout the text, this updated edition integrates the latest material on new technologies that impact cost control in the foodservice industry and the business world. Complete with an accompanying Student Workbook that helps readers earn a certificate from the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, highlights of this Third Edition include: Apply What You Have Learned feature focusing on practical, real-world applications of topics and concepts Expanded coverage of legal issues that may affect a manager's decisions Revised material offering a better understanding of the connection between all parts of the ordering process An increased number of Test Your Skills questions that give readers more chances to practice what they have learned A bonus disk packed with exercises that utilize manager-developed Microsoft? Excel spreadsheets Students in foodservice management courses will find Food and Beverage Cost Control, Third Edition a modern and focused treatment of this vital subject. Working managers will appreciate this useful reference as a source of ready-to-use forms and formulas that can be easily applied to their operations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471273546
• ISBN13: 9780471273547
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 1.6" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

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Easy to understand

This text book is very self-explanatory. Makes learning the information easy and helpful. All books should be written like this one.

Food & Beverage Cost Control

As a culinary educator, I find this book both informative and user-friendly. The Excel spreadsheets and "Fun on the Web" exercises add interesting and useful technological components. The text gets to the point on all issues without belaboring the theoretical aspects of food and beverage cost controls. The book covers junior and senior level concepts in a readable format suitable for freshmen and sophomores. It is a book for all levels with real life examples. I would recommend it to anyone, be it from education or industry.

An excellent edition!

This book is a must-read for any foodservice manager who is interested in an accurate, to the point, and technologically advanced review of food and beverage cost control methods. Controlling labor and food costs have never been more important than in today's environment. Those managers who master control procedures will succeed, and this book helps them to do just that.The author's use of Excel spreadsheets really helps learning, as does the large number of realistic industry examples. Even the Internet plays a part in the book's usefulness when the authors refer readers to applicable web sites. Best of all, the concepts (especially those related to labor control) that are presented are useful to the managers I work with regardless of their culture or even the continent in which they work.I recommend the book to all hospitality managers, and I would recommend it to any serious student of hospitality.