Menu Planning and Product Development

Menu Planning and Product
Development

Cover Content
 Introduction
 Menu Design
 Development of food service environment
 Customer requirement for new food concept
 Choice of new food concept
 Recommendation for new for product
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Menu planning is the process of arranging meals and dishes ahead of time. Several dishes, starters,
main course, beverages, cuisines, etc. are involved in menu planning. Predetermined menu planning
saves time and money as it provides a proper plan of quantity of vegetables and fruits required by a
hotel manager for serving food to customers. It ensures a balance diet and nutritional need of the
customer. In this report Zio's Italian Kitchen is considered for the analysis of menu planning and
recipe planning. Zio's Italian kitchen restaurant is serving delicious and healthy food to people since
1994.

Menu design to reflect the menu compilation and
recipe development
A menu design is made attractive so that customers will get impressed and delighted by watching
the various recipes offered in restaurant. In Zios Italian restaurant a number of factors are taken
care to make an amazing menu. These factors include theme of restaurant, colour, language, style,
attractive posters, font size, sorted list of food items listed according to categories. Zios restaurant
has focused on following factors as given below:-
 Language
 Categorisation