Facility and Risk Management Analysis: El Camino Cantina Case Study

This case study examines the facility and risk management practices at El Camino Cantina, a popular Mexican-themed restaurant chain in Australia. The case study begins with a description of the venue, its location, size, and purpose, noting its unique position in the Australian market. It highlights El Camino Cantina's connection to the Rockpool Dining Group, emphasizing the group's extensive portfolio and revenue. The study includes a venue condition assessment, evaluating aspects such as functionality, cleanliness, accessibility, and overall condition of kitchen freezers, storage areas, sinks, food service trolleys, pre-rinse taps, ovens, microwaves, ice machines, dishwashers, deep fryers, food processors, butchers, and grease traps. Each item is rated, and details such as refurbishment year, cost, asset lifecycle, life age expectancy, and Facility Condition Index (FCI) are provided. The assessment offers insights into the current operating condition and maintenance schedule of the venue.

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Project Report: Facility and risk management

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Case history:
EL Camino Cantina is an Australian restaurant which is situated at various places in
the Australian market. This is a restaurant and bar which is mainly based on the Mexican
theme. The restaurant is located in the cobblestone streets of Sydney. It has very loud, large
and fun tex-mex bar which is filled with various cocktails and different wines. The venue has
been chosen by the company with great efforts. It is quite unique in the Australian market
which is flooded with enough neon lights to light up the roads (El Camino Cantina, 2017).
The business is recognized as one of the best restaurant in the Sydney market. It is a
part of “Rockpool dining group” which is quite huge in terms of the number of venues and
the revenue. It has been established in Australian market in mid 70s. The dining group is
mainly recognized by the people for featuring a best in premium, casual and fast casual brand
category across the entire country. The dining group has even more than 16 aware winning
brands and 60 restaurant and bar and revenues in excess of $ 350 million. It employs over
3000 staff members across the Sydney, Melbourne, El Camino cantina and Perth (Rockpool
Dining Group, 2017). The El Camino Cantina is the newest venue of the group.
As being the new venue, the overall performance, equipment position and the ratings
of the restaurant is quite better because everything has been set up by the business recently.
The chef of the business has also been asked to work well in the business in order to improve
the customer’s loyalty and manage the rating of the business.
Venue condition assessment:
ITEMS
Func
tional
ity
Cleanli
ness
Accessi
bility
Overal
l
Condi
tion Refurbishment Asset Life Cycle Facility
Condition
Index Year Cost Age
Life
Expectancy
Kitchen
Freezers 4 5 4 13 2015
$
5,000 5 7 13
Storage Area 4 5 3 12 2016
$
8,000 10 15 12
Sinks 5 4 4 13 2013
$
7,000 7 10 13
Food service
and utilities
trolley 4 5 4 13 2015
$
2,000 5 5 13

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Pre rinse taps 5 5 4 14 2018
$
1,500 2 2 14
Equipment
Ovens 4 5 5 14 2016
$
15,000 5 5 14
Microwave 5 5 5 15 2017
$
13,000 3 5 15
Ice Machine 3 4 5 12 2015
$
8,000 7 8 12
Dishwasher 4 4 4 12 2017
$
7,000 5 10 12
Deep Fryer 4 3 4 11 2016
$
6,500 5 5 11
Food processors 3 4 4 11 2015
$
3,500 4 7 11
Butchers 3 3 3 9 2016
$
8,000 3 3 9
Grease taps 4 4 5 13 2018
$
3,000 2 4 13
S. No.
Equipment and Kitchen
part FCI Rating
1 Freezers 13 5
2 Storage Area 12 4
3 Sinks 13 5
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Food service and utilities
trolley 13 5
5 Pre rinse taps 14 5
6 Ovens 14 5
7 Microwave 15 5
8 Ice Machine 12 4
9 Dishwasher 12 4
10 Deep Fryer 11 4
11 Food processors 11 4
12 Butchers 9 3
13 Grease taps 13 5

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References:
El Camino Cantina. 2017. Austalia's best restaurant and bars - Urban Purveyor Group.
[online] Available at: http://www.elcaminocantina.com.au/ [Accessed 30 Nov. 2017]
Rockpool Dining Group. 2017. About Rockpool Dining Group. [online] Available at:
http://www.rockpooldininggroup.com.au/about-us/ [Accessed 30 Nov. 2017].