SITHKOP002 PLAN AND COST BASIC MENUS

ASSESSMENT TASK 1

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STUDENT NAME		STUDENT ID
ASSESSOR NAME
EVIDENCE COLLECTED	BENCHMARK REQUIREMENTS MET
	1^st Attempt			2^nd Attempt	3^rd Attempt
Part A: Customer preferences	☐			☐	☐
Part B: Plan menu	☐			☐	☐
Part C: Prepare and cost menus	☐			☐	☐
Part D: Dish profitability	☐			☐	☐
Part E: Yield test	☐			☐	☐
Part F: Evaluate Menu Success	☐			☐	☐
OUTCOME	☐Satisfactory ☐Not Satisfactory			☐Satisfactory ☐Not Satisfactory	☐Satisfactory ☐Not Satisfactory
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SITHKOP002 Plan and Cost Basic Menus

Assessment 1 – Research and Menu Development

Section A: The Culinary Workshop Restaurant

You have been employed by The Culinary Workshop Restaurant for a while now. You have been asked to develop menus to give a wider range of choice that differ from restaurants in the area.

The menus need to be designed and costed as a proposal for your Head Chef to make a decision on the menus that will be used going forward.

The design of the menu is also changing, so you need to develop your menu to include The Culinary Workshop’s logos (these have been provided for you). The logo may also be used elsewhere in the menu.

Equipment:

The Culinary Workshop’s kitchen has limited space and facilities.

The following equipment is available. It is important to keep this in mind when planning your menu.

Large equipment

Small equipment

One commercial oven

Four open-range stove-top burners above the oven

One salamander

One combi oven (convection and steam)

One single-vat deep fryer

One bench-mounted planetary mixer

Small walk-in cool room, open shelving dry store area and single-door freezer

Hot bain-marie with under-display plate warmer

Food processer and blender

Microwave oven

Pots, pans, frypans, stockpots, etc.

Team:

Your team in the kitchen consists of the following:

Head Chef

Sous chef

2^nd year apprentice

1^st year apprentice

2 x prep chefs

Section B: The MenuCoster Tool

For this assessment you are required to use the MenuCoster application. The MenuCoster provides recipe costing, nutritional analysis and menu pricing.

Ingredient prices are updated directly from nation-wide suppliers as often as they change therefore recipe prices are always up to date.

Dishes costing are to be sourced from MenuCoster (details of how to access MenuCoster are given below).

Important:

When calculating the cost/price of ingredients, first convert to Kg (Kilograms) to calculate the amounts required for each recipe.

Some recipes in MenuCoster are for more than one person, you are required to work out the cost of all menu items for one dish.

When preparing the menu cost, it is recommended to work out the cost of the Cyclical Menu first as this contains nearly all the items for the other menus.

You have been provided with instruction on how to use the MenuCoster application below:

MenuCoster Instructions

ASSESSMENT 1 – RESEARCH AND MENU DEVELOPMENT

Part A: Customer preferences

You are required to identify and evaluate the food preferences of customer groups in The Culinary Workshop:

Use the Customer preferences (provided below) and answer the questions:

Customer Preferences

Insert your final copy here

When completed, save the document and insert it above.

Part B: Plan menu

You are required to develop menus to meet customer preferences as you have identified in the previous task. The menus are listed below:

Cyclical Menu	Seasonal Menu	Ethnic Menu	Table D’hôte
Buffet Menu	Degustation Menu	À La Carte Menu	Set Menu

The Head Chef has decided to combine the eight (8) menu types into four (4) menus. You are required to develop the following four (4) menus:

1: Cyclical menu to represent the Buffet Menu

2: Seasonal menu to represent the Degustation Menu

3: Ethnic menu to represent the À La Carte Menu

4: Table D’hôte menu to represent the Set Menu

The Head Chef has already prepared two different documents which will assist you to develop and design the menus:

A Menu type template document (provided below) – provides you an example of the layout for each of the menu types:

Menu Type Template

A List of dishes/meals documents – suggests a variety of ideas for dishes/meals to choose from when preparing each menu for The Culinary Workshop.

A List of dishes/meals

Prior to developing the menus, plan the draft menus:

Assess the dishes/meals merits by using the MenuCoster application (Instructions have been provided to you in the ‘Assessment Instruction section’ on page 2).

Ensure you include a balanced variety of dishes (in terms of colour, cooking methods, delicacies, flavours, nutritional values, presentation, seasonally available ingredients, taste, texture).

Identify organisational service style and cuisine

Cyclical/Buffet Menu

[insert your menu here WITHOUT PRICES]

Seasonal/Degustation Menu

[insert your menu here WITHOUT PRICES]

Ethnic/A La Carte Menu

[insert your menu here WITHOUT PRICES]

TableD’Hote/Set Menu

[insert your menu here WITHOUT PRICES]

[insert your recipes from MenuCoster here]

Role-play 1: After planning the draft menus, you are required to discuss these with the Head Chef (your assessor) for final approval. Arrange a meeting with him/her.

Your assessor will record the discussion outcomes in the A1 – Practical Observation Digital Checklist in Didasko. Your assessor will be looking for the following:

1. Generate a range of ideas for menus for dishes or food production ranges?

2. Assess dishes/meals merits? (E.g. meal values, pricing, quantities, dish presentation)

3. Include balanced variety of dishes items (e.g.: colour, size and shapes, taste, texture)?

4. Identify organisational service style and cuisine?

5. Use of questioning skills to elicit information? (E.g. use of open questions to obtain information, use of closed questions to confirm, use of clarifying questions)?

6. Use of active listening skills? (E.g. eye contact, repeating what the Head Chef has said to confirm understanding, asking questions)?

Discuss with your trainer how you will reword the menu items to make them sound more appealing. You can use the menu descriptions in MenuCoster where the menu items contain their accompaniments.

Part C: Prepare and cost menus

After the discussion with the Head Chef, you are required to develop the menus and include the cost into it:

Cost the menus (including all dishes) by using the MenuCoster application for each recipe on your designated menus. Price them correctly (refer to the definitions given to you in the Menu type template document on page 4).

Recipe costing and dish profitability-Buffet Menu

Recipe costing and dish profitability-Seaonal/Degustation Menu

Recipe costing and dish profitability-A la Carte menu

Recipe costing and dish profitability-Set menu Menu

Note: Some recipes are provided on MenuCoster for more than one person, dishes for your menu must be per one serving.

Insert your menus from Assessment 1 Part B here, priced and reworded to make them appealing to your customers. (You can use the menu descriptions in MenuCoster to describe the menu items, which will also include their accompaniments)

CYCLICAL/BUFFET	[INSERT YOUR COMPLETED MENU WITH PRICING AND REWORDED HERE]
SEASONAL/DEGUSTATION	[INSERT YOUR COMPLETED MENU WITH PRICING AND REWORDED HERE]
ETHNIC/A LA CARTE	[INSERT YOUR COMPLETED MENU WITH PRICING AND REWORDED HERE]
TABLE D’HOTE/SET MENU	[INSERT YOUR COMPLETED MENU WITH PRICING AND REWORDED HERE]

Part D: Dish profitability

Look at the calculations you have completed. In the excel template go to the “cost effective” data sheet for each menu.

In your own words complete the table below giving the most profitable dish on the menu and why you think this is.

Cyclical/Buffet Menu	Most profitable dish is:
	Explain why:
Seasonal/Degustation	Most profitable dish is:
	Explain why:
Ethnic/A la Carte	Most profitable dish is:
	Explain why:
Table D’hote/Set Menu	Most profitable dish is:
	Explain why:

Part E: Yield test

Conduct a raw ingredient Yield test for each menu. You are required to:

Complete a Yield Test for one (1) recipe that appears on your menu. This can be an entrée, main or dessert but must include three (3) items from the following list of food items:

Fruits

Vegetables

Meat

Seafood

Use the Yield Test MS Excel document which is provided below for calculating the yield Test. The document includes:

An example for yield % calculation – ensure you understand the calculation and the converting process from gram (g) to kilogram (Kg). Ask your assessor for clarifications if needed.

Menu calculation – ensure to:

Type the recipe name for every menu

Choose the ingredient and complete the table provided

Use the converter tool in the Test Yield spreadsheet below, if the item has been given in grams (g)

You have been provided with an MS instructions on the first tab of the following worksheet:

Yield Test MS Excel	Insert your completed Yield Test Below

When you have completed the Yield Test calculations for all menus, insert your document in the space provided above.

Part F: Evaluate Menu Success

Now you have developed the menus, you are required to obtain feedback to evaluate the success of your work.

Prepare a Customer Questionnaire. Include in the Questionnaire:

Questions for all of the menus.

Consider referring to the variety of:

colours

cooking methods

delicacies

flavours

nutritional values

presentation

seasonally available ingredients

tastes

textures

NB: It is best to ask questions and give them a choice of how they should reply. For example words of your sentences starting with questions like “What was your favourite meal/least favourite?” can be followed with a list of the dishes they can tick off.

Questionnaire

[insert your copy here]

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