Discussion Exercise over Elluminate session.

The next section would be an elluminate session.
This would be to start dialog on the importance of everyone's role in the catering establishment, and how every employee’s actions have an effect on the profitability of the business.

The discussion scenario is:

You’re having a friendly chat with the chef from a restaurant on the other side of town, and he mentions to you that the bank bounced a few of his cheques last week.

On further enquiry he tells you the bar/restaurant is doing a good turnover (about $15 Thousand each week he says), and about 400 covers per week.

He is afraid the bank may close his business down, and is asking you as a professional in the hospitality industry, for some ideas to help him save his business.

In your group, brainstorm suggestions you could make to him;

Make notes, and keep this sheet for reference in elluminate session.

I would ask the students to access moodle and comment on an open thread started under this heading, the criteria would be 300 words on this discussion.

This will lead nicely into the next section which is the "nuts and bolts"
of food costing, Stocktaking and revenue calculations to obtain Gross and Net profits.