Understanding Foodservice Cost Control or Marching Together

Understanding Foodservice Cost Control: An Operational Text for Food, Beverage, and Labor Costs

Author: Edward Sanders

This book is the guide to how to maximize revenues, control expenses, and optimize financial objectives. Its practical “hands-on” approach facilitates immediate application to all types of foodservice operations. Used for illustrative purposes, the included forms can be reproduced and implemented. Chapter topics cover the control process; food cost/food cost percentage; inventory management; requisitions and transfers; purchasing functions; receiving merchandise and processing invoices; quality standards, specifications, yield analysis, and plate cost; food production control; menu sales analysis; beverage cost/beverage cost percentage; bar and inventory control; beverage production control and service; controlling payroll costs and the cost of employee turnover; measuring staff performance and productivity; control practices applied to human resources issues, gratuities, wage laws, and working conditions; monitoring the sales process; pricing and sales forecasts; and self-inspections, customer feedback and nonfood inventories. For management personnel in the foodservice industry.

Go to: Vengeance or Lets Roll

Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Author: Melinda M Chateauvert

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was the first national trade union for African Americans. Standard BSCP histories focus on the men who built the union: few acknowledge the important role of the Ladies' Auxiliary in shaping public debates over black manhood and unionization, setting political agendas for the black community, and crafting effective strategies to win racial and economic justice. In this first book-length history of the women of the BSCP, Melinda Chateauvert brings to life an entire group of women ignored in previous histories of the Brotherhood and of working-class women, situating them in the debates among women's historians over the ways that race and class shape women's roles and gender relations. Chateauvert's work shows how the auxiliary, made up of the wives, daughters, and sisters of Pullman porters, used the Brotherhood to claim respectability and citizenship. Pullman maids, relegated to the auxiliary, found their problems as working women neglected in favor of the rhetoric of racial solidarity. The auxiliary actively educated other women and children about the labor movement, staged consumer protests, and organized local and national civil rights campaigns ranging from the 1941 March on Washington to school integration to the Montgomery bus boycott.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Introduction: The Brotherhood Story	1
1	The Case against Pullman	19
2	"It Was the Women Who Made the Union": Organizing the Brotherhood	36
3	Striking for the New Manhood Movement	53
4	The First Ladies' Auxiliary to the First International Negro Trade Union in the World	71
5	"A Bigger and Better Ladies' Auxiliary"	95
6	"The Duty of Fair Representation": Brotherhood Sisters and Brothers	116
7	Union Wives, Union Homes	138
8	"We Talked of Democracy and Learned It Can Be Made to Work": Politics	163
9	"Disharmony within the Official Family": Dissolution of the International Ladies' Auxiliary, 1956-57	188
Appendix	BSCP Ladies' Auxiliary Membership, 1940-56	199
	Notes	201
	Index	259