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"India has been in transition for the last two decades, moving from a mixed economy toward a market economy model, and the Indian hospitality industry is metamorphosing into a mature industry. It is time that the story of the Indian hospitality industry is told. The Indian Hospitality Industry: Dynamics and Future Trends tells that story, one defined by the industry' s push for growth in revenues and the struggle to match the revenue growth with profitability. The volume includes a selection of insightful chapters that offer research into the multiple dimensions of the Indian hospitality industry. The book covers many segments of the hospitality sector, including hotels, events and catering businesses, and restaurants and coffee shops, both domestic and small mom-and-pop businesses as well as international chains. The opening chapters set the tone for providing an overarching perspective on the status of the industry in terms of the macroeconomic variables and how they may have impacted the health of hospitality businesses in India. The book then goes on to explore a wide variety of issues. The editors and chapter authors are either practitioners themselves or researchers, looking at both domestic and international hospitality business in India and a wide variety of economic factors. The information divulged here will be important for stakeholders, which includes domestic and international hospitality professionals, business leaders, investors, and those in governmental positions, especially in the tourism ministry. The volume informs on the issues and challenges that that the hospitality industry in India is up against. The book looks at the dilemma of a industry that responded to the demand growth promise by ramping up supply, only to find that the investments made were received by an actual growth that was way shy of forecasts and left investors with unexpected losses on their profit & loss statements and bloodied balance sheets. "--Provided by publisher.
Hospitality industry --- Hotels --- Food service
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Franchises (Retail trade) --- Food service --- Vocational guidance.
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"Established by New York stockbroker Juan Trippe in 1927, the story of Pan Am is the story of US-led globalisation and imperial expansion in the twentieth century. In this book Bryce Evans investigates an aspect of the airline service that was central to the company's success, its food; a gourmet glamour underpinned by both serious science and attention to the detail of fine dining culture"--
Airlines --- Food service --- History --- Pan American World Airways, Inc --- History.
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Consumer behavior. --- Food industry and trade. --- Food service purchasing.
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About one-third of all food grown for human consumption is lost or discarded every year, despite financial, environmental and ethical reasons to not waste food. We grow enough food to adequately feed everyone on the planet, yet hundreds of millions of people suffer from hunger, malnutrition or food insecurity. Together, this food waste accounts for about 8 per cent of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions. So, if wasting food is such a patently bad idea, why do we discard so much? In Why Waste Food?, Andrew F. Smith investigates one of today's most pressing topics, examining the causes of avoidable food waste across the supply chain, and highlighting the ways in which everyone can do something to tackle this global concern.
Food waste --- Food supply --- Food service --- Sustainable agriculture. --- Prevention. --- Environmental aspects. --- Food waste. --- Food --- History
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A safe and secure retirement is increasingly out of reach for as much as half of the American population. Taking the lives of restaurant workers as a case study to dive deep into the lived experiences of low wage workers at various stages of life, Mary Gatta warns us that the trends that have already eliminated retirement for so many Americans show no signs of changing course, and she ultimately offers incisive commentary on what can be done to stave off this bleak future.
Restaurants --- Retirement --- Working poor --- Poor --- Working class --- Cafés --- Dining establishments --- Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc. --- Food service --- Happy hours --- Employees --- Economic conditions. --- Economic aspects --- Employment
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At the center of sweeping change to food retailing practices in Victorian and Edwardian England lies one man: John Pearce. An innovative businessman and a quintessential rags-to-riches success story, Pearce was at the forefront of the rise of the mass food market in London. With his catering company Pearce & Plenty, he fed millions of workers who wanted fast, nutritious, and tasty food. David W. Gutzke mines a wide range of primary sources to offer a portrait of a pivotal figure in London and a leader of the temperance catering movement who had “done more than can be readily recognised to render London a sober city.” By studying Pearce’s companies as well as those of his competitors, this book documents a half century of changing consumption habits in London.
Caterers and catering. --- Caterers and catering --- Cooking --- Food service --- Table --- Great Britain—History. --- Social history. --- Economic history. --- Civilization—History. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- Social History. --- Economic History. --- Cultural History. --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology
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How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupationsIn today's new economy-in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based-many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at the renaissance of four such trades: bartending, distilling, barbering, and butchering.In this in-depth and engaging book, Richard Ocejo takes you into the lives and workplaces of these people to examine how they are transforming these once-undesirable jobs into "cool" and highly specialized upscale occupational niches-and in the process complicating our notions about upward and downward mobility through work. He shows how they find meaning in these jobs by enacting a set of "cultural repertoires," which include technical skills based on a renewed sense of craft and craftsmanship and an ability to understand and communicate that knowledge to others, resulting in a new form of elite taste-making. Ocejo describes the paths people take to these jobs, how they learn their chosen trades, how they imbue their work practices with craftsmanship, and how they teach a sense of taste to their consumers.Focusing on cocktail bartenders, craft distillers, upscale men's barbers, and whole-animal butcher shop workers in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and upstate New York, Masters of Craft provides new insights into the stratification of taste, gentrification, and the evolving labor market in today's postindustrial city.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Butchers (Persons) --- Barbers --- Distillers --- Bartenders --- Skilled labor --- Distilling industries --- Barkeepers --- Barkeeps --- Barmaids --- Food service employees --- Butchers --- Meat industry and trade --- Hair stylists --- Hairstylists --- Stylists, Hair --- Barbershops --- Barbering --- Employees --- E-books --- Sociologie urbaine --- Gentrification --- Profession --- artist. --- authenticity. --- barbering. --- barbers. --- barbershops. --- bars. --- bartenders. --- bartending. --- butcher shops. --- butchering. --- butchers. --- cashiers. --- classic cocktails. --- cocktail bartenders. --- cocktail world. --- common occupations. --- communication skills. --- confidence. --- confident behavior. --- confident performance. --- consumers. --- craft cocktails. --- craft distilleries. --- craftsmanship. --- cultural knowledge. --- cultural omnivorousness. --- cultural repertoires. --- customers. --- distilling. --- drinking public. --- everyday workplaces. --- foodie community. --- foodie movement. --- gentrification. --- gentrified neighborhoods. --- handmade products. --- hip tastes. --- ideal masculine image. --- industrial city. --- interpersonal communication. --- light manufacturing. --- local. --- low-status occupation. --- male behavior. --- manhood. --- manual labor. --- men. --- mental labor. --- new economy. --- nightlife industry. --- occupation. --- occupational aesthetic. --- postindustrial cities. --- retail workers. --- savvy consumers. --- self-made man. --- shopping experience. --- skilled peformance. --- small businesses. --- specialty food. --- taste. --- urban economy. --- urban luxuries. --- urbane alternatives. --- work ethic. --- young urbanites.
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