CH.5 Food & Beverage Operations - Why Hong Kong is a place to have good food and beverage operation

Food and Beverage operation is great in Hong Kong

Why Hong Kong is a place to have good food and beverage operation

Quick turnover rate on food and beverage

According to government survey, people spend their income on food and beverage keep on increasing, it means people are willing to spend money on better catering experiences frequently.  The quick turnover rate makes the storage of food easy.  Since food can only be stored in a short period of time, the restaurant cannot order too much food in once to ensure the freshness of food.  

Consume many kinds of food

Enjoying catering

In Hong Kong, food can usually be sold before they are expired because of big market.  Tourists travelling in Hong Kong grow yearly; they consume lots of food and beverage.  This also lead to great sales of food and beverage.

Saving cost in human resources

 Technology use in operation

There is high technology device and skills support in Hong Kong.  Many restaurants make use of high technology skill to run the operation more efficient.  For example, some restaurants use some ticket machine to let customer get a queuing number and leave the contact number in the machine.  When the seats are available, a automatic message will be sent to customers so customers don’t need to queue for a table.  These can save customer’s time and have better management of the potential customers.

Accurate proportion of ingredients

Moreover, some bar also use some tap drink machine so the proportion of the drink can be accurate every time.  It also save time and cost as workers can get drinks from the machine faster and avoid of wasting drinks. 

Some beverage shops will set up some machines for different kinds of drinks.  The workers only need to click a button to pour out the drink.  This can equalized the quality of the drink and make the production process more efficient.

Adequate talents and experienced workers

Experienced talents

As a famous tourist place, Hong Kong restaurant provides lots of opportunities to talents and experienced workers to develop their career.   These attract more Food and Beverage resources and benefit to F&B operation.  Experienced workers know the needs of customers and can exceed their expectation.  They can avoid making mistake and make restaurants and bars have good performance.

Opportunities of learning

Since labor in Hong Kong is trained and well educated so it saves cost to company to educate them again.  These can increase the efficiency and probability of the restaurant.  Thus, restaurants in Hong Kong can easily get high return with lower cost in F&B operation.

References:

http://hkfob.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/ichiran-the-hong-kong-experience/

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