Manage a restaurant: designing a menu Manila Restaurant and Wine Bar discusses interesting topics pertaining to management of restaurants in Philippines

December 30, 2010

What is a Menu
Available Food & Beverage Items
Listed and Priced (Written, Printed or on the Board)
Aim: to transmit the right message from management to the guest. It is a Communication & Selling tools
Objectives: Menu should 1. look good, 2. easy to read & understand , 3. Reflect the Character of the operation and 4. “Help” the guest to buy more, provoke customer’s positive reaction.
Action Plan to reach our target guest: Use the right
1. Menu Layout (size, shape, paper quality, color, typography, logo, pictures) 2. Language & Vocabulary 3. Menu items (compatibility with restaurant theme & style, available equipment, staff, space, food variety, nutritional factors, costs, guests needs) 4. Menu Structure

How to List Menus
Table d’Hôte Menu: List of a complete meal (3 to 8 course) for one price. This menu can be called “fixed price” or “meal package”. The guest eats a complete menu that has been planed in advance for them.
À la Carte Menu: Food & Beverage items are listed and priced separately. The guest choose from various appetizers, main courses, deserts.
Combination Menu: some restaurants offers both, Table d’Hôte & À la Carte Menus. (Chinese Restaurants, Fast Food). The guest can compare between the meal packages with the À la Carte Menu

Menu Structure
For all Menus, Table d’Hôte & À la Carte, a menu should be logically divided into Group of items, or Courses, to help the guest. Based on the Classical structure, the Modern International Structure is :
Course 1. Cold Appetizers (including salads)
Course 2. Soups
Course 3. Hot Appetizers
Course 4. Fish
Course 5. Sherbet
Course 6. Main Course or Entrée
Course 7. Cheese
Course 8. Deserts
Important notes:
The order is important, but we can skip or “jump” one course: example 1-2-6-8 : possible, 1-3-2-7-8 : not possible
Course 1 to 3: one of them is a must
Course 5: served only for a 7 or 8 course meal
Course 6: is a must
Course 7 to 8: one of them is a must for a Table d’Hôte Menu
Course 7: is a must in a À la Carte Menus
Main Course Structure
The 3 parts of the Main Course should include :

1. Meat or the main “Body” of the Menu
Origin: Chicken, Duck, Turkey and Fish
Cooking method Example: Grilled
Part of : Example: Beef Fillet
Other information like sauces or butter served with. Example: served with Mushroom Sauce

2. Floury Garnish
Including cooking method: potatoes, rice or spaghetti. Example: Backed Potatoes

3. Vegetables Garnish
including cooking method or Salad (served separately) or both. Ex. Boiled Carrots
Group of items Structure (Headings)
Menu Items are grouped to help the Guest to read the Menu
A group of items should contain 5 to 9 items (Ex. Cold Appetizers)
The relation between the cheapest and most expensive food item should be at least 1-2 and maximum 1-3, in order to give the guest the choice among cheap, mid-price and expensive items. Ex. Green Salad: TL 1.950.000 (cheapest) / Ceasars Salad: TL 4.980.000 (most expensive)
In a group of item, cheapest items should be located at the beginning and the end. The most expensive item should be in the middle. The reason for this is to “hide” the expensive item.
Example for Cold Apetizers:
– Green Salad : TL 1.950.000
– Sliced Tomatoes with Anchovies : TL 2.950.000
– Ceasars Salad TL : 4.980.000
– Avocado with Grapefruit : TL 3.480.000
– Spinach Salad TL : 2.480.000
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Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar was built by Hong Kong-based Yats International in 2000 to provide a world-class fine dining restaurant, business meeting facilities and venues for private dinners and functions in Pampanga Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone. Pampanga Angeles City Clark Philippines was selected for this restaurant because of safety, clean air, absence of traffic and proximity to Manila and Subic.

For comments, inquiries and reservations, email Restaurant@Yats-International.com or call these numbers:
(045) 599-5600 0922-870-5178 0917-520-4401 ask for Ernest or Pedro.

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Getting to this fine dining restaurant of Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone Pampanga Philippines
How to get to this fine-dining restaurant in Clark Philippines? Once you get to Clark Freeport, go straight until you hit Mimosa. After you enter Mimosa, stay on the left on Mimosa Drive, go past the Holiday Inn and Yats Restaurant (green top, independent 1-storey structure) is on your left. Just past the Yats Restaurant is the London Pub.

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Here is a list of restaurants in Angeles City that offer good private rooms for business dining and meetings. Yats Restaurant and Wine Bar tops the list of the best restaurants in Angeles City and Clark Pampanga. This popular fine dining restaurant in Pampanga is located inside Mimosa leisure estate in Philippines Clark Freeport. This restaurant is within minutes from the famous Mimosa Golf course as well as the casinos in Mimosa Clark.

Yats Restaurant and Wine Lounge is the only find dining restaurant to be placed on the list of good restaurants in Angeles City.   Generally lauded by Manila food and wine lovers for its award winning restaurant wine list as well as the good ambience of the restaurant, this popular resto bar in Clark is frequently used for group dinners in Pampanga.  Many people want to train here in this famous restaurant to become a wine sommelier in the Philippines.