Hospitality Operations 3

Hospitality
Operations 3

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
1. Critically analyse different types of Food production systems. .............................................3
2. Demonstrate your knowledge and understanding about different types of Food and
Beverage Service methods in restaurants. ..................................................................................4
3. Analyse Menu Engineering matrix to enhance restaurant profitability. ................................6
4. Identify and critically analyse sustainable menu planning consideration to be competitive in
the market. ..................................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
Hospitality sector is an important aspect including food production system consisting of
converting the raw materials into ready-made food items (Mosier and Kroeze, 2016). This sector
helps in economic growth of nation. The following discussion is based on the case study of
Alfredo's Italian restaurant which started their operations three month ago focusing on serving
quality food to their customers. The report includes different types of food production systems,
methods of serving food. Along with this menu engineering matrix is explained which helps in
menu planning to achieve competitive advantage at market place.
1. Critically analyse different types of Food production systems.
Food production system is a process of preparing food in which the use of raw materials
are prepare into the ready-made food for living beings. Food production system comprises with
basis things including cleaning, packaging, sorting, preparing and adding the right ingredients
before transfer to the market or in the food processing industries (Hoehn and et. al., 2019). Thus,
the food production system is simply converting of raw materials into the edible food products
for humans and animals. Food production system has many types which are listed below:
Harvesting: Harvesting refers to the act of removing a crop from its position into
processing, consumption and storage. For harvesting the crop, there is a need to know whether
the crop has price benefit, or any use because once the crop has been harvested then it will not be
planted again. Alfredo's Italian restaurant can only use this production system when there is a
need of different crops such as vegetables, utensils, fruits, wheat etc. for food supply (Park and
et. al., 2019).
Broiling: Broiling refers to direct heat to cook food especially meat or fish more easily.
It takes lesser time to cook any frozen food. Alfredo's Italian restaurant can use this food
processing system to cook frozen items including all Italian non-vegetarian dishes (such as pasta
with meat, pork, fish).
Fermentation: It is a type of food production system which is useful in converting any
crop into the liquid form to use it in production for alcohol and organic acids. The process can
easily help in manufacturing process of wine, Alcohol and beer. Alfredo's Italian restaurant can
use this production system for serving drinks including (wine, alcohol, beer) to people (oyko and
Brygadyrenko, 2019).