Y/601/1762 Menu Planning and Product Development Report - HND

This report focuses on menu planning and product development for an Italian restaurant, specifically Bella Italia. It begins with an introduction to menu planning and the development of a new fusion recipe: Italian spaghetti with an Indian twist. The report details the ingredients and procedure for making the dish and presents a sample menu for the restaurant. It then justifies the menu design, development of the food service environment, and customer requirements through market research. The report justifies the choice of the new food concept, provides recommendations for launching the product, and reviews the author's performance in relation to the project. References are also included. The report is a comprehensive analysis of the process of developing and implementing a new menu item in a hospitality setting.

Menu Planning and Product
Development

Table of content
 Introduction
 New recipe development
 Ingredients for recipe
 Procedure to make spaghetti
 Menu for Italian restaurant
 Justification of menu design

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 Justify the development of the food service environment
 Research customer requirements for a new food concept
 Justify the choice of new food concept
 recommendation on launch of new product concept
 Review own performance
 References

INTRODUCTION
Menu planning is defined as the way of
arranging the recipes offered by a
restaurant with an aim to provide
information to its customers. This help
in influencing the choice of customer
regarding their selection of any dish.

New recipe development
Bella Italia is an Italian restaurant which offers a variety of food related to Italian cuisine
but due to increase in competition it has decided to add something new to their menu
card. This new dish is a fusion food named as “Italian spaghetti with Indian touch”

Ingredients for recipe
 1 tbs olive oil
 4 rashers smoked bacon,
finely chopped
 2 onion chopped
 2 carrot chopped
 1-3 chopped leaves of
rosemary
 500g beef
 125ml of red wine
 2-3 cloves of garlic
 2-3 chopped ginger
 1-3 fennel seeds
 ½ tbs Asafoetida
 ½ tbs Red chilli
 ½ tbs black cardamom
 1-2 bay leaf
 1-2 chopped mint leafs
 2 tbs tomato purée
 400gm spaghetti
 crusty bread to serve
spaghetti.
 1-2 chopped capsicum
 ½ tbs of Garam masala

Procedure to make spaghetti:-
Put a saucepan on medium heat and add ½ olive oil, add all the ingredients one by one as
make Indian touch in dish, then make sauce for the spaghetti, put it for 20-30 mins on
heat and then add 400gms of spaghetti, put for 10 mins then serve with crusty bread to
customers.

Menu for Italian restaurant
 Bella Italian
 Starters
 Zuppa del giorno
 Chicken wings Italiuano
 Calamari
 Polpette

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 Brushetta
 Bologense aranchini
Pasta...
 Poomodono
 Spaghetti with Indian species
 Sicilian pollo rosso

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 Carbonara
 Calabrese
 Marco polo
Risotto
 Risotto Capesante
 Risotto Funghi

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 Pizza classico
 Margherita
 Queen margerrita
 Diavolo Forte
 Cotto
 Campagn
 Carne festa Pizza
 Create your own pizza

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Italian classic
 Pollo funghi
 Pollo milanese
 Salmon Italiano
 Calzone
 Carne