Foodservice Management Fundamentals delivers critical information to help students learn how to position, manage, and leverage a successful foodservice operation. The compilation of management practices, tools, and techniques illustrates essential approaches to all segments of the foodservice industry. The overarching goal throughout the text is to focus on management-related topics that, when addressed with creativity, strong analytical skills, capable interpersonal skills, and operational acumen lead to a positive bottom line.

Today, foodservice management requires a variety of skills and abilities, including creativity, analytical skills, interpersonal skills, and operational acumen. As foodservice industry revenues increase, so the number of college programs featuring foodservice-management courses in nutrition, dietetic, food science, and hospitality management programs has grown.

About the Author

Dennis Reynolds is the Ivar B. Haglund Endowed Chair in Hospitality Business Management at Washington State University. Previously, he was the J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.

Kathleen W. McClusky, MS, RD, FADA, is Director of Patient Satisfaction at Morrison Management Specialists in Atlanta, Georgia. She has also served as the president of her state's Dietetic Association and as an adjunct professor at Russell Sage College.

Book Information
ISBN 9780470409060
Author Dennis R. Reynolds
Format Hardback
Page Count 432
Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 1293g
Dimensions(mm) 279mm * 224mm * 31mm