Food and Beverage Management

Food and Beverage Management Certificate course online. This Certificate course provides the first step for establishing a career in the catering business or working in the food service industry or starting a restaurant.

This is one of the fastest growing employment sectors offering job opportunites nationally and internationally. This Certificate course can be your passport to an exciting career in the hospitality and travel industry.

A sound foundation for working in a restaurant, catering or other food service enterprise. Topics covered vary from kitchen and food management to planning a menu, restaurant staffing and waiter/waitress skills.

Having the right skills and knowledge that are demanded by this industry means employers and clients will view you as a valuable asset. The value-added in studying a course like this is based on what you learn, while the other 10% is in the qualification you achieve. An ADL Certificate, Diploma, Advanced Diploma or Higher Advance Diploma will make you stand out from the rest of potential employees when attending job interviews. Employers can see (and this is based on years following our graduates progress) that you will have exceptional knowledge and developed skills that can contribute to the organisations success or getting a job promotion or succeeding in your business goals.

Lesson Structure: Food and Beverage Management BTR102

There are 9 lessons:

1. Human Food and Nutrition
This covers all the major food groups and their importance in a nutritional diet. Also including factors in nutrition from compatibility and range of ingredients through to healthy cooking and eating methods.

2. Cooking
Study various cooking methods for a variety of different foods, covering both palatability and digestibility through to the nutritional value in processing foods.

3. Kitchen & Food Management
Learn to maximise efficiency and service through proper management of kitchen facilities, including the handling of food storage and preparation, hygiene and ethics.

4. Planning A Menu
Study menu planning for the needs of special groups in different situations, including children; adolescents; elderly people; expectant
and nursing mothers; immigrants; vegetarians and other health related diets.

5. Alcoholic Beverages
Learn how to provide adequate variety and product knowledge in order to manage the provisions of alcoholic beverages appropriately for different situations.

6. Tea, Coffee and Non-Alcoholic Beverages
This lesson provides an understanding of non-alcoholic beverages available in the catering industry and how they should be made and served.

7. Scope & Nature Of Catering Services
Learn to understand the differences in appropriate management and catering for a variety of situations from pubs to a-la-carte.

8. Personnel Management
Study waiting skills, staffing a restaurant, kitchen etc. This lesson covers the management of people in the food and restaurant industry,
including training programs, job specifications, recruitment etc.

9. Management Of Catering Services
By consolidating the skills developed throughout this course you are given a comprehensive understanding of marketing through to
food purchasing in order to effectively manage in the food and beverage industry.

Please Note: Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Learning Goals: Food and Beverage Management BTR102

• Explain the role of different food types in human health.
• Understand the alternative cooking processes, in order to make appropriate decisions about the cooking of different foods
• Manage the provision of kitchen facilities, and the handling of foodstuffs (including food storage and preparation), in order to maximise efficiency, hygiene and service with the restrictions of facilities available.
• Plan menus or list of food products for sale, appropriate to different situations.
• Manage the provision of alcoholic beverages appropriately, in different situations
• Manage the provision of non-alcoholic beverages appropriately, in different situations.
• Describe differences in appropriate management for catering in a range of varying situations.
• Discuss how to manage staff in the food and restaurant industries.
• Consolidate skills developed throughout this entire course into an overall understanding of management of catering services.

JOB TIPS For a Career in the Food Service Industry

• A qualification can help you get started on a career and a foot in the door, but there is always more that you'll need.
• Volunteering is a great way to get experience. Don’t worry if it is unpaid as the experience gained far out-ways the loss of any income.
• Try preparing different cuisine at home with family and friends. The greater knowledge you have of food and beverages will certainly make you stand-out to employers; and clients.
• There is nothing like Networking in any profession. ADL's course will show you how and get you started in this course. Who you know if just as important as what you know that helps you get that job that you have dreamed of.
• Good Communication skills are essential. Food and Beverage is part of a service industry and therefore you need to be able to serve and communicate well with people.
• Successful professionals are willing to do anything to get started. Don't be too choosy. Waiting on tables or washing dishes is how many professional got.
• If you have developed your communication skills well, know your cuisine and are well networked you will definitely have an excellent chance in expanding your career and reaching those goals that you have set, as opposed to someone who just has the qualification, but, lacking communication skills,and the necessary food and beverage knowledge and skills demanded by the industry.
• Make your studies work for you!

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