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Hospitality, Food & Leisure Intermediate

Restaurant & Hotel Finance

Cost recipes, price menus, control prime cost, run menu engineering, find break-even covers, explain food cost variance and manage hotel KPIs and rates in real spreadsheets, with every cell checked as you go.

8 lessons 8 labs 1.9 h Certificate

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What you'll build

What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

  • Cost a standard recipe line by line, allowing for trim loss, and add a Q-factor to get the true plate cost.
  • Calculate each dish's food cost %, find the price that hits a 30 % target and spot the dish that is underpriced.
  • Calculate cost of goods sold from inventory counts, add fully loaded labour and track prime cost % month by month.
  • Sort eight main courses into Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles and Dogs from their popularity and contribution margin.
  • Work out the contribution per cover and how many guests a day the bistro needs to break even and to hit its profit target.
  • Compare what the kitchen should have used with what it did use, item by item and as food cost %.
  • Turn a hotel's monthly figures into occupancy, ADR, RevPAR and GOPPAR, for each month and for the quarter.
  • Compare six rate scenarios for one night, pick the best by RevPAR with INDEX/MATCH and see that the best by profit is a different one.

About this course

Restaurants and hotels run on thin margins, so the key ratios need to be known every week. You cost recipes down to the plate, set menu prices from a target food cost percentage, and track prime cost and labour cost percentage. Menu engineering sorts dishes into stars, plowhorses, puzzles and dogs by popularity and contribution. You calculate break-even covers per day and compare theoretical with actual food cost from inventory counts to uncover waste. For hotels, you measure occupancy, ADR, RevPAR and GOPPAR, and test rate-versus-occupancy scenarios to see which strategy earns more. For restaurant owners, chefs, hotel managers, hospitality students and anyone planning to open a food or lodging business.

Curriculum

Course content

8 lessons · 8 labs · 1.9 h · final exam

  1. Recipe Costing and Plate CostLab12 min3 checked tasks
    Unlocked when you buy the course
  2. Food Cost % and Menu PricingLab13 min4 checked tasks
    Unlocked when you buy the course
  3. Prime Cost and Labour Cost %Lab14 min4 checked tasks
    Unlocked when you buy the course
  4. Menu Engineering: Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles and DogsLab16 min5 checked tasks
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  5. Break-even Covers per DayLab12 min4 checked tasks
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  6. Inventory and Theoretical vs Actual Food CostLab15 min4 checked tasks
    Unlocked when you buy the course
  7. Hotel KPIs: Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR and GOPPARLab14 min4 checked tasks
    Unlocked when you buy the course
  8. Revenue Management: Rate vs Occupancy ScenariosLab15 min5 checked tasks
    Unlocked when you buy the course
  9. Final exam12 questions, 75% to pass, unlimited retries.

Certificate

Finish with a certificate you can verify

Complete every lesson and pass the final exam to receive a certificate of completion for this course, with a unique credential ID and a public verification page.

  • Names the course, your score and the date of issue
  • A verification link for your CV or LinkedIn profile
  • 12 questions, 75% to pass, unlimited retries.

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Questions about this course

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All lessons and labs of this course, the final exam and the certificate, including later updates to the course, for as long as Tutorvo offers it. Access is personal and tied to your account.

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Do I need Excel or other software?

No. The labs run in a spreadsheet inside your browser on a laptop, tablet or phone. Function names and syntax follow Excel.

Is the certificate an official qualification?

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