Increasing Productivity in Foodservice


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Description of effective organization, task planning, equipment layout and employee motivation and training in the food service industry.




Productivity in Foodservice


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Demonstrates how eight basic principles of industrial engineering can improve productivity in every task of food service. Each principle is reinforced by hands-on learning activity. Geared toward all levels of food service personnel.













Making Fast Food


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Some say the adventurous days of grueling and dangerous scientific exploration are long gone, but Reiter (sociology, Brock U.) undertook a 10-month trek--without pay!--into the uncharted wilds of a Burger King kitchen to bring us first-hand accounts of the strange and marvellous customs of the natives. The illustrations are hilarious. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




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Lifting Productivity in Singapore's Retail and Food Services Sectors


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Introduction -- The use of lean management principle & practices for productivity improvement in the retail & food services sectors -- Use of self-service technology in supermarkets : a case-study of a supermarket and consumer responses -- Seeking productivity improvement with self service technology (SST) in the food services sector : case study of 6 restaurant holding companies -- Integrating the supply chain with RFID : a study on boosting productivity in retail & food services sectors -- The role of shared services in improving productivity in F&B enterprises -- 3-d printing technology & productivity : prospects in Singapore retail and F&B sectors -- Use of mobile applications in retailing : increasing revenue streams and uplifting productivity -- Effectiveness of cash management technologies in Singapore's retail and food services sectors -- Application of job redesign principles to transform business operations and raise productivity in SMEs in the retail & food services sectors -- Effectiveness of loyalty card in improving business performance and productivity : an appraisal in the retail & food services sectors -- Concluding remarks -- Index




Productivity in the Food Industry


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The book is the first to treat the food industry as a systematic whole—or, more exactly, to identify the ways in which it can be made into such a whole, with better couplings at the junctures between manufacturing/processing/transporting/warehousing/retailing.