Through a collaboration of two wellness and hospitality veterans, Peter Anderson and Lori Vargas, we present a course that helps guide you through the important and exciting process of menu management. This business development course provides some key understandings of how to manage your business with menu engineering, pricing strategy, financial review, and target methods. Menu Management is an effective approach to manage your business and achieve success. The service menu is the "door" to your business which needs to be managed to provide you the proper opening to success. The Menu Engineering Spreadsheet included provides you with insightful tools that will allow you to truly maximize your business.
Course Curriculum
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Learner will:
- Demonstrate proficiency in the understanding of Menu Management
- List pricing methods using qualitative and quantitative approaches
- Develop a customized analysis of the profitability and popularity of one's business with the Menu Engineering Tool
Meet Your Teachers: Peter Anderson, ISHC, MSP & Lori Vargas, MBA, CPA, Health Coach
Peter Anderson is a principal at Anderson and Associates, a consulting firm that focuses on spa and wellness programming utilizing market analysis, financial and economic evaluations by monitoring wellness, hospitality, and tourism trends. Peter holds a Bachelor's of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters of Hotel Administration from Cornell University. He has been an active member of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants since 2001 and a faculty member of the Collins College of Hospitality management since 2003.
Lori Vargas is founder of 360 Wellness Education, offering well-rounded wellness advanced education, with over 20 years in the spa sector as founder of multiple spas, creator of a massage school, and as a spa consultant. She has spent 14 years with Fortune 500 corporations focusing on corporate strategy and business development, is a CPA, and earned an MBA from The University of Chicago. Lori has assisted spas and resorts find solutions for spa business development and financial growth. Entrepreneur, Author, Adjunct Professor for Spa Management, Consultant, Ironman Triathlete, and Proud Mom. PEACE!