Food and Beverage Management

Food and Beverage Management provides a complete introduction to this vital area of hospitality management. Now in its fifth edition, this best-selling text has been completely revised and restructured to reflect current practice and teaching and includes updated information on all areas, especially technology, operations and staffing issues. Each chapter has a user friendly structure including aims, exercises and further study hints. Food and Beverage Management is the introductory bible for people entering food and beverage management studies or practice. With sales of the third and fourth editions totalling over 31,000 copies, this book has earned its reputation as a bestseller All new case studies reflect major changes in the industry since the last edition, e.g. the growth of chain coffee shops in bookstores and the slow food movement Extensive online lecturer material including PowerPoint slides, solutions to exercises, extra case studies and web links encourage adoptions and generate sales

Bernard Davis wrote the first edition of this book and led its development through the second and third edition;; to become the best-selling text that it is today. Andrew Lockwood is the Forte Professor of Hospitality Management and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Surrey. Peter Alcott retired from his post as Senior Tutor for Professional Training and SCEPTrE Fellow at the University of Surrey in September 2009. He now teaches Hospitality Management modules. Ioannis Pantelidis is a Senior Lecturer in Hospitality and Culinary Arts at the University of Brighton.