Profitable Menu Planning (3rd Edition)

Profitable Menu Planning, Third Edition is the most up-to-date, comprehensive book on menu planning available. It covers every operation needed to properly design and develop menus, including determining who your customers are and how to market the menu to them; available kitchen equipment; recipe costs; how to make a profit; and how to figure selling prices. Menu analysis, nutrition, printing the menu (including desktop publishing), menu accuracy, and all the different types of menus are also discussed.

"Must" reading for students as well as industry professionals, this edition includes:

• Software for menu analysis, recipe costing, and selling price
• How to market to your customer
• Utilizing existing equipment to expand and enhance your menu
• How to analyze your menu for maximum profitability
• How to properly price your menu for maximum sales and profit
• Marketing nutrition to today's health-conscious customer
• Laws and regulations governing today's menus
• Menu design and layout
• Actual menus from across the country used as illustrations
• Includes menus from quick-service operations, family restaurants, theme and ethnic restaurants, cafeterias, buffets, banquet menus and cycle menus

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A guide for students, managers, and owners in the food service industry. Considers researching the type of customer and restaurant, financial matters, nutrition, legal aspects, layout and printing, and a range of specialized menus from fast foods to banquets. Also discusses the menu as a management tool. First published in 1994 and here significantly revised in both content and layout. The 3.5<"> disk requires Windows and Excel and contains programs to cost meals. Includes a glossary of foreign words without pronunciation. No bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.