Unit 6: Managing Food and Beverage Operations Report - Trends Analysis

This report analyzes food and beverage operations within the hospitality industry. It explores current and future trends, including the rise of street food, healthy eating, and the impact of lifestyle choices on consumer behavior. The report examines the importance of understanding customer needs and preferences to achieve satisfaction. It also highlights the significance of quality service and building long-term relationships with customers. The content covers various aspects of food and beverage management, providing insights into operational skills, equipment, technology, and marketing strategies to gain a commercial advantage. The report references relevant literature on environmental management and water usage in the food and beverage sector. The conclusion emphasizes the industry's role in providing diverse options and the need to adapt to evolving consumer demands.

Managing Food & Beverage Operations

Introduction
Managing food and beverages operations refers to forecast, plan, and control
demands and supply of relevant products in order to fulfill desires of clients
properly. It involves to collect required sources in order to prepare desired
quantity of goods to fulfill needs of people to achieve their satisfaction. The
main aim of this project is to enable students for gaining knowledge and
practical information related to operations as well as supervision

Current and future trends affecting food and beverage businesses
◦ The trends of food industry is based on modified choices and demands of people due to which
industrialist focus on new ideas of introducing fresh concept of food products. It include the
criteria of thoroughly analyzing actual needs and wants of citizens and apply several changes
to satisfy their requirements in appropriate manner. Moreover, there are various new food
products are available in market in current scenario which can become more advanced in
future.

Cont.….
Street Food – Street food can be described as drinks and ready-to-eat food items sold by
vendors in streets or in places like carnivals or markets in present trends. in trends in present
scenario. Mostly youngsters prefer to eat various street foo items rather than visiting restaurants
or hotels because they are tasty and easily affordable due to reasonable price level. In contrary to
this, people may avoid street food due to factor of cleanliness and want to intake hygienic
eatable items because it may cause several dangerous infectious disease in people.

Cont.….
◦ Lifestyle/healthy eating/Foods as medicines/ Super foods – In present era, people do not
focus much on hygiene or healthy food but only like intake fast food on regular basis which is
not good health and results into various critical health problems. In comparison to this, people
will more concentrate in eating healthy food items and put efforts to maintain their medical or
physical fitness in proper way to reduce risk of severe health problems

Conclusion
In this project, it is concluded that hospitality industry is a major segment under which food and
beverages lies as a largest segment and offer various alternates to people. This sector appeals a
huge customers services in which their main aim is to provide quality services to their services
users on the basis of their requirement and need. Through these kind of practices hospitality
industry builds their connection with target user for along term period.

References
Grekova, K., 2014. Extending environmental management beyond the firm boundaries: An
empirical study of Dutch food and beverage firms. International Journal of Production
Economics. 152. pp.174-187.
Valta, K., 2015. Overview of water usage and wastewater management in the food and beverage
industry. Desalination and Water Treatment. 53(12). pp.3335-3347.