Hospitality Operations: Types of Food Production Systems, Food and Beverage Service Methods, Menu Engineering Matrix, Sustainable Menu Planning Consideration

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Types of Food production systems..................................................................................................4
Different types of Food and Beverage Service methods in restaurants...........................................5
Menu engineering Matrix............................................................................................................7
Identify and critically analyse sustainable menu planning consideration.................................11
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

Introduction
Hospitality operation are important aspect for managing business along with improving
up customer satisfaction and managing up all the employee for different operation in perfect
manner. There are different professional who ae looking in to develop the different strategies for
increasing high in facilities, operational efficiencies, proper staff coordination for
developmentactivitiesamongwithmaintainingproductiveworking environment.Restaurant
operation have included up of all activities such as in preparation of food, customer service,
cleaning, purchasing raw materials, accounting, reporting, etc. In this report, there will be
discussion of the different types of food production system along with different food
andbeverage servicemethods in restaurant.Beside this report willhave discussion on themenu
engineering Matrix for enhancing up Alfredo’s Italian Restaurant profitability.

Types of Food production systems
Food production system refers to system and practices that are utilised by hospitality
organisations in producing food to be served and offered to customers. Alfredo’s Italian
Restaurant can utilise three types of food production system. This involves-
Conventional food production system
Conventional food production system that relies in industrialised methods of food
production, processing and distribution and has very long supply chains and is imperative
towards operational efficiency.
Convenience food production system
This is another food production system in which food is prepared than food is prepared
by means of chilled products and frozen food. This involves food prepared in industries and then
are availed as convenience food.
Call order food production system
This production system uses call-order and cook freeze, because restaurants use La carte
menu. It cooks the fresh food to the customers and restaurant may cook freeze to prepare to food
(Dai, Yang and Wemhoff, 2020).
Centralised food production system
Central kitchen or centralised food production system is another food production system
that Alfredo’s Italian Restaurant. This is a system in which food is produced in one place and
then this is delivered to other places where food is likely to be served. This food production
system is appropriate to be used in restaurants where same kind of menu and food is served and
offered at more than one location of restaurants. This means that if Alfredo’s Italian Restaurants
has more than one location in such situation centralised food production system is appropriate
(Dai, Yang and Wemhoff, 2020). This food production system involves processes like wrapping
and transportation of food to respective places. However, this takes time when food is produced
after being ordered by customers at restaurants. In order to reduce this time, onsite food