Commercial Food Service

Catalog description

The bloomin' onion, a "Happy Meal", "take it up a notch". How do all these tactics help create the marketing strategies and positions of these successful restaurants? This course will provide students in depth look at the restaurant industry-how the roles of chefs, menus, marketing strategy, positioning, themes, signature items and economics make a success or failure of a restaurant or chain. Students will review the structure, and functions of this industry and how it compares to the supermarket industry. In addition to class learning, students will participate in local tours of facilities to analyze and critique the similarities and differences in the operator customer strategies and marketing techniques.