Hotel Management Archives

What Makes a Restaurant Manager Great?

Successfully overseeing an entire restaurant is one feat, and highly effective restaurant managers effortlessly achieve it. How? And what makes a restaurant manager great?

Below are the answers to these intriguing questions!

1. Great restaurant managers respect their staff

Great restaurant managers know how to respect their staff. In fact, this trait is common to all great leaders. High effective restaurant managers treat their staff as their peers and motivate them to provide the best services to guests, which further helps boost the credibility of the restaurant.

2. Great restaurant managers set the culture

Managers can make or break a team. Great restaurant managers set the right work culture that includes the right mix of work ethics, teamwork, and rewards/appreciation. Great restaurant managers are clear about what they expect from the team.

Working under highly effective managers is always fun as the work culture they set isn’t monotonous.

3. Great restaurant managers reward team members/staff

Great restaurant managers reward team members for the extra effort they put in to deliver the best customer service. Successful restaurant managers aren’t always work-oriented; they throw parties and reward team members as an appreciation for their hard work.

4. Great restaurant managers communicate effectively

Highly effective restaurant managers use positive communication to ensure efficient workflow within the team members. All leaders, including restaurant managers, use constructive criticism to help their team members improve further.

Clear communication also helps restaurant managers precisely solve problems which otherwise may impair workflow and result in poor customer service.

5. Great restaurant managers are planners

Highly effective restaurant managers start each day with a plan and a goal. In fact, preparing the day’s plan is essential to ensuring smooth workflow as new tasks can unexpectedly pop up in a restaurant. Without a plan, the team can lose the track.

6. Great restaurant managers prioritise customers/guests

Highly effective restaurant managers prioritise customers over everything else. They are deeply focused on improving customers’ experience in the restaurant.

7. Great restaurant managers set an example

Highly effective restaurant managers set the tone for the rest of the team members; they are the first to arrive and last to leave. Successful restaurant managers motivate their staff by setting examples.

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15 Techniques to Master for Success in Hospitality Management

The hospitality industry rewards passionate and creative people. If you are pursuing your career in the hospitality industry, then your success counts on more than determination.

Here are 15 (secret) techniques to master for success in hospitality management:

When studying hotel management:

1. Guest satisfaction

Keeping the guests happy and satisfied is the bread and butter of any hotel. As a hotel management student, you have to learn the skills to deal with guests including politeness, care, and attention to details.

2. Be open to internships

It is through internships that you get the opportunity to get a hands-on experience.

3. Participation in culinary events

Participating in culinary events/competition helps you gain real-life experiences and people skills.

4. Building good rapport with teachers/mentors

Your college years are the best time to learn as much as you can. Get close with your mentors to learn the real skills from them.

When you start working (after getting placed):

5. Remember guest names

Guests feel truly welcomed and appreciated when you call them by their names.

6. Body language matters

Correct body language cues such as eye contact and smile are important for a positive interaction with the guests.

7. Gratitude serves best

Expressing gratitude to guests by thanking them make them feel appreciated and valued.

8. Smile when on the telephone

All successful hotel managers have a common trait, they smile when talking to guests over the phone.

9. Strong greetings

There’s no better way to make guests feel welcomed than to greet them with lines such as, “Hello, how was your day?”

10. Pet service

Guests appreciate it when their pets are taken care of during their stay in the hotel.

11. Recreational games for kids

Often, kids get bored during their stay with their parents at the hotel. Successful hotel managers include recreational games and activities for kids to keep them entertained.

12. Offer surprises to regular guests occasionally

Regular guests love when they are offered free upgrades to suite-style rooms.

13. Record guests’ preferences

Recording guests’ preferences help in tailoring services such as favourite food items, and room and amenity choices.

14. Celebrate special occasions

Celebrate special occasions such as birthdays and wedding anniversaries of guests.

15. Keep elevator floor clean

Cleanliness in elevator floors is an important concern. Make sure you train the staff to clean them occasionally.

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9 Interesting Food Facts

Sure, we enjoy our food, especially when it’s our favourites. But have you ever wondered about the reasons why different food items have peculiar tastes, colour, and smell? Here, we have listed 9 interesting facts about which are surely going to fascinate you:

1. Why mint tastes cold?

Mint contains a chemical known as menthol which tricks the brain into sensing that the food is cold.

2. The reason for chilli peppers to taste hot

The hot taste in chilli peppers is due to the presence of capsaicin, an oily chemical which is odourless and colourless.

3. Orange fruit and colour

The colour ‘orange’ is named after the fruit of the same name. The old English word for the colour was ‘geoluhread’ which translated to ‘yellow-red.’

4. Difference between packaged and home-made cheese

Packaged, pre-shredded cheese has a different characteristic from home-made shredded cheese. The former is easy to pour as it does not clot while the latter can be sticky and not-so-easy to pour.

5. Why do food items become tastier with salt?

One of the primary reasons for salt to act as taster enhancer is the human tongue can detect five basic tastes, including saltiness. Salt tends to decrease bitterness in food items, making them more enjoyable in terms of taste perception. Salt also helps release molecules from food items into the air for enhancing the aroma of food items.

6. Holes in crackers

Have you ever wondered why there are small holes in crackers? Well, the tiny holes are made in crackers in order to bake them properly. The holes are also the reason your crackers are crisp.

7. Jelly is different from jam

Did you know that jelly and jam are not the same? Jam is prepared from crushed fruits whereas jelly is made from the juice of fruits. When preparing jelly, the fruit juice is boiled while adding pectin and sugar for a thicker consistency.

8. Asparagus makes pee smell

Some of the chemical compounds found in asparagus break down in a certain way after consumption. It is interesting to note that asparagus doesn’t smell bad when you are preparing it.

9. Garlic makes your breath smell bad

The sulphuric compounds found in garlic lead to bad breath.

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