Menu Planning and Design

Course Overview
Can you remember a time when your grandmother insisted that apple sauce was always served with pork, roast potatoes were always served with roast lamb, and apple pie was always served with lashings of cream and ice cream?

For some, these traditions are still being passed down from one generation to the next. However, each new generation develops new foods and trends. We now have a very extensive range of cuisines due to our cultural diversity. And the amount of choices and food and beverage combinations continues to increase.

As a result, you must continually source and update knowledge in the food and beverage industry and keep in touch with the ever-changing needs of customers. People’s tastes are all different and no one should question customers’ beverage and food combinations. However, to offer informed advice to customers, you need a basic knowledge of how food and alcohol are best combined to enhance the flavours and textures of each.

The content of this course focuses on how to design a modern menu, and how to match alcoholic beverages with the food on your menu. You will learn about the various types of food service styles and their history, menu structure and style, food types, meat and vegetables, market trends, food intolerances and culinary terms. You will also learn about wine, matching food with wine, grape varieties and wine production, beer styles and fermentation, and spirits & liqueurs.

What type of certificate will I receive?

Graduates of our Short Courses will at the conclusion of their program receive a Certificate of Completion. You could use this Certificate to prove to a potential or current employer that you have successfully participated in an online training course, offered by an RTO.

Australian students: If you require a Statement of Attainment certificate for employment in your industry, or for use in a Higher AQF Qualification, you will need to enrol in an ‘accredited’ Nationally Recognised Training unit.

You can study the accredited versions of some our short courses online with us – so please check the course’s information page for more details if this applies to you.

How do I print my Certificate?

To protect the integrity of your Certificate, it will be protected by a unique ID number allocated only to you. This number is recorded against your Profile, and if you choose to upload a Photo of yourself into your Profile, it will protect your certificate from duplication and fraudulent use.

Course Outline

This course has 2 chapters, in which you will learn how to:

• Research general information on food and beverage
• Share information with customers.

You will progress at your own speed, page-by-page through the course listening, reading and watching the training material. Along the way you will be invited to participate in a range of self-tests and interactive, problem-solving activities. At the end of each chapter, our computer will test your understanding of the content via 20 multiple-choice questions. These 20 questions are distributed evenly across each of the2 chapters, and you will need to answer each question correctly to move forward to the next chapter of the course.

Why Should I study this Course?

This course will provide you with the skills to design effective modern food and wine menus. If you are involved in, or are preparing to enter the food and beverage, housekeeping, front office, or the Retail services sectors you will find this course extremely useful. It will teach you how to sell, how to increase sales and how to deal with difficult customers.

This course is ideal online training for those:

• Who are unemployed and/or in pre-employment training, looking to enter the Hospitality and Service Industries.
• Who are in pre-vocational training and are looking to embark on a new career in the Tourism and Hospitality sectors.
• Who are already working within the Hospitality or Service Industries and wish to improve their skills and/or meet their Professional Development obligations.
• That that are not involved with the Service Industries at all, but just want to know what the secrets are to providing world-class service, and handling customer complaints.