Managing Food Production - Healthy Delight Restaurant

Managing Food
Production

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Different types of food preparation and production system .................................................1
P2 Factors influences design of various kinds of kitchen ..........................................................4
TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................6
P3 Principles for planning food preparation and production .....................................................6
P4 Methods for planning food preparation and production ......................................................8
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
P8 Ways to monitor food production .........................................................................................9
P9 Impact of deviations in introducing processes and procedure ...........................................11
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Managing food production system or process is regarded as one of the critical role within
hospitality industry as it directly connected with an accomplishment of organisational goal or
objective in an efficacious and expeditious manner. Food production department involves the
activities related to preparation of varieties of food where raw materials are cooked combined
and transformed to make a dish as per the demand of customers or guests which render them
increased level of consumer satisfaction towards company's service. Along with this, it is
comprises of several sections that ranges from cleaning, packing, segregating, sorting, preparing,
adding ingredient in appropriate proportion, presentation and so on. However, it is guided and
monitored by different degree of principles and methods which lead them to serve their guest in
an improved or best manner (Jayne, 2012). This report is fully based on a newly established
restaurants within UK industry which is named as Healthy Delight Restaurant who deliver
wide range of food varieties across UK. So, researcher identifies different principles, methods,
ways to improve its food production system and also to make best decisions in terms of acquiring
enough fund, staff and equipment for maintaining company's brand value among market. In this
report, it covers various types of food and production system and also several factors that impact
different kind of kitchen. Moreover, application of several principles and methods to operate the
function of food production division, identification of various resources to keep food production
function clean and safe. Finally, determine various ways to govern food production for attaining
high level of productivity and improved brand image.
TASK 1
P1 Different types of food preparation and production system
Food system is refers to a course of action in which food travels form conception in the
field all the the way to digestion in stomach. However, it includes growing, harvesting,
processing ,packaging, and so on. Thus, it is an integral component in food preparation
department for attaining guests satisfaction. In terms of catering or hospitality industry term,
food production is termed as food preparation and control in order to maximise customer
satisfaction and profit margin in an improved manner in a prescribed time period. Moreover,
food production section is sub department of food and beverage division which comprises of
several kitchen who mainly centring with the continental, Chinese and Indian Cuisine.
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Additionally, in food production cycle, different sort of kitchens receives the core or ready-made
ingredients, processing them through the preparing and cooking ways, and deliver dish to wide
range of customer's table via various service outlets or channel. In addition this, food preparation
is the art of individuals who makes an effort to prepare different types of food in terms of
culture with an aim of acquiring amended level of customer satisfaction. Moreover, Healthy
Delight Restaurant's food production phase encompasses of different sort of sections like
preparation area, cooking, storage, cleaning and many more which enable enterprise to maintain
its workplace environment attractive and safe for clients or customers. Hence, Healthy Delight
Restaurant take an initiative to perform all the activities of food preparation by preparing
varieties of food in hygiene and better quality. Along with this, its food production system
operates assembly line, production kitchen, centralised, section, galley kitchen and many more
which is explained below:
Types of food preparation
Baking: It is a process or procedure of cooking food by dry heat especially with an usage
of oven and some of it's products are bread, rolls, cookies, pies, muffins and many more which is
prepared with a mixture of flour or some form of grain.
Frying: Under this type, it is relate with those process in which foods are getting cooked
in oil or fats which is take place with shallow oil bath in a pan over fire or deep fat frying in
which food ingredients are completely immersed in deeper vessel of hot oil. Moreover, Healthy
Delight make use of different frying technique for its food preparation technique such as pan
frying, shallow,deep and stir frying which contains diverse style in preparing tasty and healthy
item (Rogachev, Mazaeva and Egorova, 2015).
Roasting: This is a process in which food items are prepared over dry radiant heat in open
fire as well as it includes cooking food in an uncovered pan in oven. In relation to Healthy
Delight Restaurant, they uses roasting technique also to prepare meat and also some vegetables.
Types of food production system
Cook freeze system: In every restaurants or kitchen food preservation plays a crucial role
which lead company to render increased level of customer satisfaction as well as enhance the
brand value of from within existing market. In relation to Healthy Delight Restaurant, its chef
make use of blast freezers for to handle and preserve food in a better way. Moreover, it facilitates
the to preserve their food from getting waste as well as they can preserve for longer period of
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