departmen food and beverage

Food Beverage Department
F & B (Food & Beverage) in the hospitality industry is one of the departments that are important for continuity of operations because the products offered / sold to guests is a product to address the needs of daily living, namely food and beverage products. Hotel is a commercial business, which has a maximum of three facilities, namely: accommodation, food and beverages. F & B Department is the department that handles all the food and drinks at a hotel ranging from material selection, preparation, taste, quality, appearance and price offered to guests include providing the best service to guests in accordance with the standards of each hotel. F & B Department is also responsible for making activity in dealing with food and drinks, of course, also create an event performances and entertainment
Objective F B Dept.selling food and drink as much as possible at a price ditentuakan suitable standards, give the best service possible to guests until the guest is satisfied and get the maximum profit with sustainability;
Distribution of F B Dept.
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Dept. of F & B Front Service on duty at the front, namely: Restaurant, Lobby, Coffee shop, bar, banquet and room service 2.

Dept. of F & B Back Service on duty at the rear, namely: Kitchen, stewarding, swimingpooll, service bar and cafeteria employees 3.

Waiter / Waitress To increase revenue, F & B Depatement not only in food and beverage sales systems that exist, but must have a strategy that can attract guests in increasing revenues either from Room Service, Restaurant and Bar. Especially for Bar, revenue from the sale of various types of drinks most widely obtainable.
Tasks and Responsibilities of Each Position
From the organizational structure of the F & B Services Department below, it can be seen that each employee or staff have duties and responsibilities are different. The job description for the F & B Services Department at a few hotels are as follows:
Food and Beverage Service Manager
 (In charge of all outlets that exist in the Food and Beverage such as: Restaurant, Bar, Banquet). Broadly speaking, the responsibilities and duties of a Food and Beverage Service Manager are:
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Develop a work plan and train subordinates
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Tackling the problem can not be overcome by subordinates- Coffee, tea, milk

b. Meal Lunch (Lunch)
This dish is usually served from 11:00 until 15:00 noon. The composition of this dish consists - Appetizers - Soup - Food Main (Main Course) - Dessert (Dessert)
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Appetizers (Appetizer) is a dish with a dominant taste sour and served in small portions. Appeti dishes can usually use or unappetizing meal. The materials used to make this appetizer is: a.

The types of fruit, such as pineapple, apple, etc. b.

The types of vegetables, such as beans, potatoes, carrots, lettuce, union, tomatoes and other c-lin.

The types of meat such as: chiken, fish / fish ingredients on top of it will be mixed or dihidang right with sauces such as: - Cocktail sauce - Mayonnaise sauce - Tartar sauce - Thousand island sauce - American sauce - Blue chesses sauce - Vinaigrette sauce and etc. 2. Soup is a dish that contains more water or diluted dish. This dish is basically a broth such as chicken broth, fish, beef, etc., and mixed with other baha. The types of soup There are three known types of soup are: 1. Soup viscous (thick soup), where N is the soup texture slightly viscous and can be divided menja 2. Soup aqueous / clear (clear soup), is a soup served in dalamny where there a thickening agent. Example: - consomme soup
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, Soup is thickened by crae flour Example: a. Soup is thickened by material (puree soup) Example:
Example: - Sea food cocktail - Hawaiian Chicken salad


 - 3. Soup Soup marine fish found in the area (National soup), is contained in a soup or country. Example: - Soup aftermath of Indonesia - Chicken Soto Madura - Laksa soup from Malaysia - Honggarian Goulas soup 3. Meal Top (Main Course), is the food that was served as a food group of guests. The staple food consists of: - Vegetarian (veg) - rice or potatoes - Meat such as beef, fish, chicken, and so on - Sauces Besides the staple food can be other types of pasta such as: Spaghetti, Pizza, M, and so on. Example: -
Fillet Steak mitered "hotel
 - Spaghetti Bolognaise - Pizza Napolitaine - Sauted Chicken Chasseur - Fish Fillet Mineure 4. Dessert (Dessert), is a variety of types of food that was served at the end of the meal / food was served last. This food is used as a dessert and can be: - Fruits - bread or cake - Ice cream (Ice Cram) So it tasted this dessert dominant sweetness.
c. Dinner dishes (Dinner)
The composition of the menu served in the evening. Basically the same as the dishes during the day. Namely the presence of an appetizer, soup, main course, and dessert.Yang difference is the weight composition for the lunch menu which is heavier than the Dinner menu. Because the day we will be a lot of activity / working. While the evening we will take a rest / sleep. And evening

Example: - Sliced ​​Fresh Fruit / Fruit Cocktail - Vanilla Ice Cream



usually added with some burnt food (flambee)
d. Dinner entree Midnight
Is a dish served at the midnight hour is between 23:00 until 02:00 hours of the morning. The menu is served to guests who come to the restaurant at midnight, both for guests who could not sleep or who want to enjoy the atmosphere of the night. The menu offered is very limited, in the sense of complete lunch and dinner menu. It's because in general disebab guest midnight meal (supper) is not a lot and also the number of staff that there was little good for the restaurant and for the kitchen. So that the menu is simple and comes with an assortment of beverages. So it does not hurt for the waiter and the cook on duty night to serve the guests. Example: - The presence of a lot of cake (snacks) - Presence of coffee, tea - The presence of a variety of sandwiches, and so forth. Besides the four dishes, also known dish: - Brunch menu, consisting of breakfast and lunch dishes - Gala dinner menu. is a banquet served during specific events such as new year, special meal - Vegetarian Meal, is this dish does not contain meat or fish, but consists of cheese, chicken eggs, vegetables, fruits and porridge