LECTURES MICRO Finals
LECTURES MICRO Finals
• Front Desk
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Module 5
Topic 5 | Week 11 | 04.12
DEFINITION
Food and Beverages
• Commercial sectors (profit motive) – Hotels and = guest picks their orders and pay at a counter (e.g.
other accommodation establishments, Restaurants, Fast cafeteria).
RESTAURANTS
= restaurant that cook to order more than 12 entrees and = typically the head of the restaurant kitchen hierarchy.
it offers high-level of service. The executive chef might actually be the restaurant
manager in some cases.
• Family Restaurants
= he/she manages and supervises the rest of the kitchen
= restaurants that implies – Kid friendly, low cost, and staff.
very casual.
= in most cases, also works with suppliers and tries to
• Buffet Restaurants develop strategies to reduce or manage kitchen costs.
= restaurants have the ability to serve many people and
offer many types of cuisine at the same time.
• Sous Chef or the second chef
• Casual Dining
= works directly under the executive chef.
= full service restaurants where consumers can dress
comfortably, bring the kids, have table service, and not = does more of the actual cooking and supervises the
break the bank. rest of the staff more directly.
• Fine Dining
= more upscale, where the expectation of food quality The remainder of the kitchen hierarchy is made up of
and presentation, service, ambience, and the overall line cooks. These people are collectively known as the
experience are first class. Station Chef (Chef De Partie) in charge in part of the
kitchen:
• Theme Restaurants
1. Pastry Chef (Patissier)
= restaurants combined with sophistication and specialty 2. Saucier (responsible in preparing sauces)
(Walker & Walker, 2011). 3. Fish Cook (Poissonier)
4. Vegetable Cook (Entremetier)
5. Meat Cook (Rotisseur)
Restaurants are structured to have checks and balances RESTAURANT: CHAIN OF COMMAND
in an organized chain of command.
6. Pantry Chef (Gard Manger) - in charge of all
cold items, from salad and hors d’oevres to cold
• Restaurant Manager sauces and dressings.
7. Line Cook (Commis) - an entry-level position.
= head of the management hierarchy.
• Waiters
• Headwaiter
= in charge of retrieving the finished food from the
= often works directly under the restaurant manager. It is kitchen and distributing it to the people who ordered it.
also referred as Maitre’d.
= sometimes, the wait staff will clean the tables after
= its job is centered on providing guests with quality people leave.
service.
• Busboys
= restaurant provides trendy cuisine, skillfully prepared 4. Menu Book/Card – There shall be a menu book or
and served, with expanded beverage options, in an card which shall be presentable, clean and easy to read
enhanced setting. with the menu items listed in logical sequence. All items
shall be made available at all times on a best-effort
basis.
• Two Diamond 5. Linen – All tables shall have clean table cloth and
cloth napkins of good quality. They should not be faded,
= restaurant provides familiar food, often cooked to
nor with frayed edges and stains and should be changed
order, served in casual surroundings.
after every service.
H. Kitchen
Types of Commentaries?
Touring Activities
- Reporting Time
- Assembly and Boarding
- Tour Spiels and Commentaries
- Touring onboard a vehicle
Departure Procedures
- Hotel Check-out
- Send-off Assistance
Client Related
- Pickpockets, Snatching, Illness
Supplier Related
- Poorly air-conditioned vehicles, Cold Soup, etc.
Module 7
Private:
1. Virtual Reality
Regional:
Paris’ Louvre launched ‘Mona Lisa: Beyond the
1. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Glass’, a VR experience that explores the
Development (OECD): A group of economically Renaissance painting as part of its Leonardo
developed countries assisting in tourism advancement da Vinci blockbuster exhibition (Coates, 2020).
as well as other means of economic growth. National Museum of Finland in Helsinki opened
a new VR exhibit in 2018. (Coates, 2020)
2. Pacific Asia Travel Association: A very successful
association formed to develop, promote, and facilitate
travel to and among destination areas in the Pacific
2. Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
region.
AI is improving industry-wide. AI will be used to
create an animated Lego-style image of each
guest on a dark ride (Kleiman, 2020).
According to Martin-Rios