Course Fee: €570
Distance Learning Course of 8 modules

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There is an awful lot more to running a successful Restaurant than being able to cook - EVEN IF YOUR ARE REALLY GOOD AT IT.

This training programme will give you the recipe for success in this most competitive business. It does not matter whether you want to open a trendy bistro or a down-to-earth modest eating house or an up-market restaurant, the techniques for survival and profit-making are the same for all and this course teaches them to you.

Here you will learn about choosing the right location for your business, creating a proper business plan, hiring kitchen and wait staff, planning menus that attract customers, purchasing equipment and supplies, handling difficult customers, health and safety issues buying advertising and generating publicity and much more.

This is the perfect course for all aspiring restaurant owners. It will provide you with solid strategies for creating a business plan that will positively attract investors and help generate start-up cash.

You will learn too how to set-up a bar and manage a wine list.

This is a highly competitive, fast-paced and dynamic industry. As soon as a trend appears to become established it is replaced by something newer or something dressed-up as something new.

Restaurant professionals have to be intelligent, dedicated and really enthusiastic and those that become very successful are so passionate about what they do that they excite all they meet.

So if starting your own restaurant is what you want to achieve, you could do not better than to start here!

This is a well rounded, very readable course, that even those with some experience in the job will gain useful information and tips - it is, however, a must for anyone considering hotel receptionist as a career.

Accreditation

When you have completed this course you may take a final examination. Full details of this examination are automatically sent to you as you near the end of the course. The examination costs €65 and is taken at home at your convenience.  If you receive 70% or more in this examination you will receive an ITEC Diploma.

Optional:

Personality/Intelligence Test

All our students have the option to take this revealing test for an additional cost of €25.00.

The test asks questions to determine:

• Are you a 'Take-Charge' type?
   
• Are you a manipulative person?
   
• Are you a real friend when the going gets rough?
   
• How popular are you?
   
• Could you be your own boss?
   
• What's your leadership potential?

The objective is not only to help you achieve greater personal and professional success - but to show you how to get what you really want out of life.

Management/Leadership Skills Test

All students of this course have the option to take a Management/Leadership Test for an additional cost of €50.00. This test is conducted on our behalf by Verax international. This test has to be taken on line and the results will be sent directly to each student by email usually within 3/4 working days.

We urge you to complete this test as it will provide you with invaluable help and guidance in enabling you to get the most out for your learning. The assessment sent to you when you complete the test will not count in any way to your eventual qualification. It is intended to enable you to understand your strengths and weaknesses and so concentrate on those parts of the course that are most valuable to you.

You may think that you are already aware of these. However, systematic research shows that just over half the population are unaware of their real strengths, let alone their real weaknesses.

This test provides you with a systematic way of assuring these for yourself. Answer honestly. There are no right or wrong answers. Only you will see the results.

The test will allow you to assess your own performance against 16 key management/leader competencies - such as customer focus, decision making, creativity and team working - which are valued by employers and which are very important for effective performance as a manager or team leader. There is one test for managers in the public sector and a separate test for all other managers. Depending on which version chosen, your performance is benchmarked either against 15,000 or so managers in the database or against public sector managers only.

In summary, this unique test will show you what to stop doing (or do less of) and what to start doing (or do more of) in order to become more effective in your current role/activity. In effect, you are told what you need to do to become a more effective manager and team leader and most important of all, how to do it.

Good luck with your studies.

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