Assignment:
Optimal Prices, Policies, and Suppliers" Please respond to the following:
• Explain the main differences between optimal prices and AP price. Next, compare and contrast the bill-paying procedures that can be employed by hospitality operators. You will also need to discuss which bill-paying procedure you believe is most important. Justify your response.
• Describe how the supplier selection criteria can help a small independent hotel find products that help control costs and offer different selections. Provide specific examples to support your response.
"Food Safety" Please respond to the following:
• Examine the safety of your own personal food production practices at home or at work. Point out key changes you should consider in order to improve your own food safety and / or changes that your employer should consider in order to improve food safety for its employees. Provide a rationale for your response.
"Assignment and Rooming" Please respond to the following:
• Imagine a guest or guests with personal traits / attributes that may provide an extreme challenge during the room assignment process. Describe the guest(s) and the steps you would take to accommodate him/her/them. Please be as creative as you like.
• Imagine an upscale hotel without bellpersons. Recommend practices that would deliver the same basic services of the bellperson (both to the customer and to the hotel), but without the bellperson. Please be as creative as you like.