Food Service Management Research Proposal

Fast food is food that is already cooked so there isn’t much of a waiting time. This is why fast food is so appealing instead of spending hours over an oven making a meal you don’t even need to get out of your car to get it. Fast food has been around for nearly a century now, but it became more popular in the 1940’s with McDonalds starting up. Other fast food shops start to open up over the next few years.

1. How has technology been applied to the food production process? Give/describe at least 3 examples.

This restaurant service evaluation paper will take a look at one of Orlando’s most popular casual dining spots, Miller’s Ale House located at 5573 Kirkman Road, Orlando, Florida. Miller’s Ale House motto is “Welcome to Our House” suggesting a fun, warm, and inviting atmosphere. Miller’s Ale House is known as a casual sports restaurant and bar serving food made fresh and at an affordable price. The restaurant is also known as a great place to meet friends and family and enjoy lunch or dinner while watching a sporting event on one of their large screen televisions. Miller’s Ale House has an incredibly large outside bar and patio displaying sports on all the televisions. Customers want to experience this type of customer service along with a friendly atmosphere and

A public school in Washington DC require 1,25 dollar per meal for the student, but the prize would increase significantly if the government would have delivered the food. Even though the buy and deliver thousand of tons of food around the coutriy the meal choices reflect federal nutritional recommendations, regional culinary preferences, and local district economics. What's a "good school lunch" consist of, still remains a hot debate.

Meals and snacks are part of the overall learning experience. Breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack are served daily. Meal times are as follows: a.m. snack between 8:30 and 9:00; lunch between 11:30 and 12:00; p.m. snack about 3:00 PM-3:30 PM. Menus are posted weekly. Meals are served family style in the classrooms. Children’s nutritional needs are met with foods provided by the Center. We ask that families not send food with their children, except under special circumstances when they have made arrangements with the director and the teacher(s).

"Limited-Service Eating Places in the US" (NAICS 72221 and SIC 5812) is an industry that consist mainly of establishments that provide food service where customers usually order and pay for the items before eating. This industry, which accounts for more than one third of the entire restaurant dining industry, is categorized into three main segments (Bramhall). The first segment is limited service restaurants, which include drive thru and take out facilities. This segment currently has the largest market share. These establishments tend to specialize in limited menu items, such as hamburgers, pizza, sandwiches, and/or chicken (Basham 9). The second segment includes

Our nutrition services include interactive workshops for parents and kids on topics ranging from shopping healthy on a budget and cooking nutrition meals kids will eat to how to get kids off the couch and moving. We also partner with schools to redesign the school lunchroom environment and experience. We help school officials develop healthy menus for their students and strategically design the placement of available items for kids to encourage the selection of healthier items.

In his book, Schlosser talks about working in the fast food industry calling it “the most dangerous job”. However, requiring no prior skill of any kind, jobs in the fast industry are at equal chances for everyone. What Schlosser didn’t talk about is that those jobs help support families. Although it provides low wages, working in the fast food industry ensures a steady paycheck at the end of each month. So when immigrants arrive from foreign countries they are able to get employed in fast food restaurants without having any previous skills and receive their paycheck at the end of every month. The fast food industry provides a large number of jobs “The nation has about 1 million migrant farm workers and about 3.5 million fast food workers.”

The inability to acquire a various menu on campus is the single largest statement in the review results; 33% of all respondents requested more options in the food served. Of those requesting a more various menu, 55% (18.2% of all respondents) had such varied requests in changes to the menu.

Another way FUSD determines what to put on the menu is by inviting companies to their office for an employee taste test. This

Prior to 2015, Holmes Dining was a buffet that customers paid one price, and had a range of food choices that they could choose from. Food Services Director Dan Layman decided to discuss with managers and supervisors on future changes that would happen at Holmes Dining. For the start of the school year in 2015, Holmes now offers all day breakfast, salad bar, potato bar, Pan Asia, comfort food, and gluten-dietary options. Because of these changes students and supervisors had to adjust the way they served. In regards to change Doug Stewart writes, “regardless of the nature of change, employees are going to have questions, fears, rationalizations, and personal opinions”, which was seen on employers, supervisors, and visitors faces (Stewart 62). Having the same options of food type student employees become more familiar with what they serve, which causes these changes to become common.

Gordon Food Services, known as GFS Canada distributes fresh foods, canned and dry foods, fresh and frozen meats, seafood and poultry, special orders, equipment supplies and cleaning chemicals across all provinces of Canada. GFS Canada is one of the largest foodservice distributors in Canada.

What are factors influence to customer purchase behavioral? How is good management system impact to employee performance delivery high quality service?

Because of the exploratory nature of some of the aspects of the objectives, we need to have detailed qualitative information.

     Running a restaurant can be one of the most stressful jobs as well as the most fun and rewarding jobs. If the manager is a good leader with excellent leadership skills and has great followers the restaurant will be rewarded. If not the restaurant will plummet in sales and no one will be pleased. While developing a business. staff is important to running a successful restaurant, it is also essential that management focus on its public relations as well as its sales and marketing strategies.