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A quick recipe for your F&B team
Working within the catering industry is not viewed as a glorious position in the general public’s eye. There is a lot of hard work, sweat and long hours. Yet food & beverage provides the second most profitable resource to many park’s bottom line.
School is Almost Out ...Get Ready!
Before school’s out, do your homework! What can you apply to your food & beverage operations this season that you learned from last season?
We are open ...now what?
As a food & beverage manager or owner, you have worked very hard the last two months to recruit, train and prepare your team for the start of the season. Thousands of people are coming through your gates looking forward to a great time. What do you do now? This is a list of items that you want to complete during the season:
Controlling Food Costs
The instability of the market in today’s economy is causing food prices to be unstable and unpredictable, and this scares many of us with food concessions at parks and attractions. In the past three months alone, I watched our vendors increase our rates by over 10%. We cannot allow this to continue.
The Seven Secrets to Returning Staff
Every year we hope our experienced staff return for another season. We want them to remember the fun summer job that provided them with a summer of great memories and a fun work environment.
A recipe for F&B waterpark success
In order to make a splash in waterpark food you must follow a simple recipe. The three ingredients are quality, presentation and organisation.
Park Food
Of all the departments that exist inside an amusement park, food and beverage (f&b) is the most maligned and misunderstood. The sales and profit it can contribute is rarely tapped to its full potential. The steps needed to control this are not complex, but it does deserve to be run as a business within the business.
New Column
Starting this issue, Park World has committed to a series of bi-monthly articles about one of the least glamorous parts of an amusement or recreational facility: Food & beverage (f&b). But read on, because I’m going to help you make the most of it and drive up your per capita spending.
