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Catering & Restaurant Management Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Catering & Restaurant Management via distance learning
The program offers foolproof tips on how to lower the risks of failure, avoid the common pitfalls, and make daily operations smooth and profitable in the restaurant and catering industries. It covers all aspects in the field of catering and restaurants, namely classification, operation, equipment, and legal issues. It overlooks menu strategies, special promotions, techniques for controlling food production, sound purchasing policies, and good storage and handling practices.
Academic Supervisor : Sukarn Sharma
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Catering & Restaurant Management Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Catering & Restaurant Management.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Hotel Management - Outdoor Recreation Management - Special Events Management - Tourism & Leisure Industry - Tourism & Leisure Management - Translation & Interpretation .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Catering & Restaurant Management Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Catering & Restaurant Management via distance learning = 30 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Catering & Restaurant Management Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Catering & Restaurant Management via distance learning = 30 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Special Events Management.
Master's Degree - Catering & Restaurant Management Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Catering & Restaurant Management via distance learning = 30 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Special Events Management. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Catering & Restaurant Management Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Catering & Restaurant Management via distance learning = 30 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Special Events Management. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
BIU adapts each Distance Learning Higher Education degree program to the needs of each student. More info...
Catering & Restaurant Management Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Food Production & Services
This course examines food preparation methods and service techniques in quantity and quality food production. It shows how to read and evaluate menus, recipe conversion, and costing. It considers different production schemes, food safety, food flow and waste, and the relationship between back-of-the-house and front-of-the-house activities.
Academic Supervisor: Fernando Fernández Sánchez
Food Policy & Safety
This course examines all aspects of food safety and policy namely consumer perception of nutritional risk and the regulatory and legal issues of labeling, sanitation, and biotechnology. It addresses the role of public health in monitoring and assessing nutrition, the access to food, safe food supply, and national nutrition policy.
Academic Supervisor: Jorge Poveda Arias
Customer Relations Management
Companies are often derailed by poor customer support and management. This course explains the relationship between suppliers, technology, and customers, which together provide the infrastructure for customer support in any business environment. Managing successful relationships with customers has become a critical organizational competency for acquiring and retaining customers.
Academic Supervisor: Fernando Fernández Sánchez
Menu Planning & Management
This course explores the importance of menus as a sale tool. It determines what makes a good menu, which menu to design for what events, the number of menus to prepare for clients, and how the menu dictates the function or, conversely, how the function dictates the menu. It also covers specific ways of costing menus.
Academic Supervisor: Zuleyma Loggiodice Lattuf
Bar & Beverage Management
This course examines both the aesthetics and legalities of alcoholic beverages. It covers control systems, responsible alcohol service, and essential information on a wide range of beverage products. It also shows the principles of wine, beer, and spirits production with a primary focus on manufacturing, quality criteria, and styles. Alcohol raises issues of safety, responsibility, and potential law suits.
Academic Supervisor: Sukarn Sharma
Catering & Banquet Operations
This course explores the complexities of controlling food, beverages, labor, and sales income in catering and banquet operations. It covers standards determination, the operating budget, income/cost control, as well as control systems. It shows the essence of a complete catering operation: the food, the atmosphere, the presentation, and the service.
Academic Supervisor: Fernando Fernández Sánchez
Hotel Food & Beverage Service
This course helps supervisors and managers plan for and successfully manage the different types of food and beverage operations in a hotel, including coffee shops, gourmet dining rooms, room service, and banquets. It also introduces the special world of private club management.
Academic Supervisor: Zuleyma Loggiodice Lattuf
Employees Supervision
Hiring and managing employees is crucial to any business. This course teaches supervision skills that relate to all the phases of personnel interactions. It demonstrates how to communicate with fellow employees and subordinates, especially in a business where the stress level is high. It also covers planning, organizing, problem solving, delegating, as well as training and evaluating new employees.
Academic Supervisor: Charles R. Nichols
Restaurant Management
This course provides a complete discussion for the successful management of restaurant, catering, and food service organizations. It examines in detail the role of the manager of each of the major areas of food service: purchasing, distribution, production, service, accounting, labor, product, and profit.
Academic Supervisor: Sukarn Sharma
Catering & Restaurant Management
This course examines the tools necessary to start and run a successful catering company and/or restaurant. It explores the requirements needed for the kitchen, catering equipment, storage, and banquet space, and the logistics for cooking the food, hot and cold storage, transportation to function site, and all hygiene and sanitation requirements.
Academic Supervisor: Zuleyma Loggiodice Lattuf
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Catering & Restaurant Management Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
ABRASEL - Associação Brasileira de Bares e Restaurantes
ACF - Asian Catering Federation
AMCF - Association des Maîtres Cuisiniers de France
APHORT - Associação Portuguesa de Hotelaria, Restauração e Turismo
CHRIE - Council on Hotel, Restaurant & Institutional Education
CIC - Convention Industry Council
FDF - Food and Drink Federation
FEHR - Federación Española de Hostelería
FHRAI - Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India
HOTREC - European Trade Association of Hotels, Restaurants and Cafes
IHRA - International Hotel & Restaurant Association
IUF - International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tourism
NACE - National Association for Catering & Events
NRA - National Restaurant Association
SEHA - Sindicato Empresarial de Hospedagem e Alimentação
SHFM - Society for Hospitality and Foodservice Management
WCR - Women Chefs and Restaurateurs
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Admission requirements - Catering & Restaurant Management
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Catering & Restaurant Management Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
Recognition - Catering & Restaurant Management Online via distance learning
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Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Catering & Restaurant Management Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
