Food and Beverage Manager

http://www.ihgplc.com/index.asp?jobfield=200000035&location=198160120548&keyword=Manager&pageid=430

Responsability:
- In charge of all the outlets of an hotel and their employees.

Skills:
- Very good knowledge on Food and Beverage products
- Good relationship with clients and employees
- 5 years experience in the F&B department
- Good knowledge on computer materials
- Good leader
- Good communicator

Mission:
- Must maintain standards procedures and create new standards
- Must respect food and bev cost
- Inspect all the outlets
- Take care of equipments
- Develop the F&B department regarding to the hotel direction

"Pricing for profit in the hotel industry"

http://www.hotelmarketing.com/index.php/content/article/pricing_for_profit_in_the_hotel_industry/

The article highlights the evolving role of the revenue manager of a hotel and his impact on the revenue.
Today, Hotels must be profitable.
Price and rate management rapidly change.
The emergence of internet gives to revenue managers a responsiveness regarding the "rate management".
Today, online distribution channel dominates the landscape. Now our customers have acces to rates information. This access will affect every decision of the revenue manager. A bad price management may loose customers.
He will need to be focused on competitors rates all the time.
A good rate management is the possibility to keep our client segmentation and our margins regarding to competitors.
Revenue manager appears 10 years ago, first in airlines companies. To me, this function is one of the most important in a hotel today. A revenue Manager will optimize our sales constantly. And with multiple analysis methods, he will give to the hotel the best optimization on rooms sales.
Internet gives to customers every information about rates and quality, but it can be used also by hoteliers to attract them with  a proper marketing strategy. It's a two way deal...