Description
Most states regulate their health departments by city or county. Search for health department regulations for food service facilities that are closely related to the location where you reside. Focus on possible challenges to the restaurant industry, such as health department regulations and requirements, social concerns, competitive issues, and / or demographic and geographic issues.
Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:
- Determine the challenges involved in managing a restaurant operation that are specific to your state or local municipality, as well as how you would address those challenges.
- Determine the impact of computerization on food service and lodging operations in your state, particularly in the areas of reservations, accounting, personnel management, and the recording of sales transactions. Consider the quality of technology infrastructure in your state and the degree of technology usage by potential customers visiting or using these services within your state.
- Analyze the interdependence of food service, lodging, and meeting segments of the hospitality industry and make two recommendations for how the synergy between the three could be improved, using examples from your state to illustrate your case.
- Consider how these segments can improve their relationships between one another and how they can combine their services in order to be more marketable in your home state.
- Determine the likely consequences of the introduction of gaming entertainment into your state, or if your state already allows gaming, the impact of significant economic expansion of the segment upon other segments of the hospitality industry.
- Use at least three quality references. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not quality as academic resources.
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Running head: HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
Hospitality Industry
Student’s Name
Course Number- Name of Course
Instructor’s Name
Date
HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY
2
Hospitality Industry
Introduction
The success of a restaurant is dependent on its management since proper management
means success for the restaurant. This means that restaurant managers have to do their jobs
appropriately so that the restaurant can be successful. In the course of their jobs, restaurant
managers are faced with various challenges that they need to address to ensure the smooth
running of the restaurant operations.
Challenges in Managing a Restaurant
There are various challenges that restaurant managers face in their operations and duties
and these include health department regulations, competition from other restaurants and
customer satisfaction and retention. Restaurants are regulated by the state and local governments
in which they provide the rules and regulations that guide the running of a restaurant (Thompson,
2010). For a restaurant to be licensed, it has to be up to the standards required for such an entity
by the local government. Also, restaurants need to renew their licenses in which inspections are
conducted to ensure that the restaurant has maintained the standards that the state government
requires.
The food industry has many players, and this makes the competition in the industry to be
high. Players in the industry have to come up with ways in which to attract more customers.
Restaurants are in high numbers, and this requires that the hotel manager to device ways in
which to make his or her restaurant the most attractive to customers so that the restaurant can
earn revenue and make profits (Thompson, 2010). The stiff c...
Review
Review
