F&B Management

1) What is SPS/Standard Purchase Specification?-Standard Purchase Specification communicates to a supplier about the requirements of the specifier to have supplied in terms of goods and services. The specifier also provides certain criteria of the goods and services that have to be purchased. 2)What is SRC/Standard Recipe Chart?-Standard Recipe Chart is a written formula for producing a food item of a specified quality and quantity for use in a particular establishment. It shows the precise quantities and qualities of the ingredients along with its method of cooking. 3) What is Yield?-Yield is a term used to denote the net quantity of food item produced which can be served after the processing and cooking is over upon the raw material 4)What is Standard Yield?-The standard yield of a particular product is the usable part of that product after initial preparation or the edible part of the product after preparation and cooking. 5)How can one calculate Standard Portion Cost?-A standard portion cost can be calculated for every item on every menu, provided that the ingredients, proportions, production methods and portion sizes are standardized.Standard portion cost = Purchase price per unit/(divided by)Number of portions per unit 6) What is a Menu?- Menu is a list of food and beverages available in an outlet with its prices. This sales tool informs the customers in a clear way what is available to them. A menu also reflects the outlet’s image and the process of menu planning is never ending. 7)What is Menu Engineering?-Menu engineering is a process of methodical selecting, costing, pricing and evaluating of the menu items. Menu engineering provides the manager with information about a menu item’s profitability, as well as popularity, so that proactive planning, recipe design and customer pricing decisions can be made. 8)What are Stars, Plowhorses,Puzzles and Dogs in relevance to Menu Engineering?- Stars-items those are popular and profitable Plowhorses- items those are not profitable but popular Puzzles- items those are profitable but not popular Dogs- items those are neither profitable nor popular. 9) What is the role of a Menu Engineering graph?- A Menu engineering graph is useful to evaluate decision strategies as it indicates each menu item’s position relative to all others. It is the most powerful report produced by a menu engineering application. 10)What is the purpose of Menu Mix Analysis?-Menu mix analysis is a report that evaluates each item’s participation in the overall menu’s performance. The percentage of menu mix is based upon each item’s count divided by the total number of items sold.