Food Production Essay

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FOOD PRODUCTION AND PORTION CONTROL Food Production Control: Portions Release: May 12 2009 03:36 Author: Members View: 22435 times Print 1. Explain the importance of standard portion sizes, standard recipes, and standard portion costs to foodservice operations. 2. Identify four methods for determining standard portion costs, and describe the type of food product for which each is used. 3. Calculate standard portion costs using four different methods. 4. Use cost factors derived from butcher tests and cooking loss tests to calculate portion costs. 5. Use yield factors derived from butcher tests and cooking loss tests to determine correct purchase quantities. 6. List the advantages and disadvantages of using standardized yield figures versus in - house yield tests. In previous articles , we explained that all foodservice establishments have a sequence of operation consisting of purchasing, receiving, storing, issuing, producing, and selling and serving. Each of these operations can be considered a system in itself, and the foodservice operation can be considered to be composed of interrelated systems, each of which has special goals. The purchasing system, for example, is designed to ensure the availability of an adequate supply of the ingredients required for food production, each of a carefully selected quality and acquired at an optimum price. The receiving system has a primary goal of making sure all food received conforms to the quality, quantity, and price ordered by the purchasing system. The best means for ensuring that these systems will achieve their aims — that events will conform to plans — was shown to be instituting a control process. This is true not only for the purchasing and receiving systems, but also for the systems designed for storing and issuing foods. As we will see, it is equally true for the production system.
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