Model - ✅✅ Conceptual simplification of a real situation in which extraneous
information is excluded
And analysis is simplified.
Order - ✅✅ input—> transformation—> output
System - ✅✅ Collection of interrelated parts or subsystems unified by design to
obtain one or more
Objectives.
Linking Processes - ✅✅ Decision making, communication, and balance are
referred to as ______
Within the food service system.
Subsystem - ✅✅ Complete system within itself that is part of a larger system.
Open System - ✅✅ Organization that is continual interaction with the
environment.
Input - ✅✅ Any human, physical, or operational resource required to accomplish
objectives of the system.
Internal Control - ✅✅ Plans, goals, standards, policies, and procedures of the
organization.
External Control - ✅✅ Local, state, federal regulations and contracts with
outside companies.
Synergy - ✅✅ The units or parts of an organization working together may have a
greater impact than the
Units operating separately.
Open and Closed Systems - ✅✅ have interrelated parts.
Equifinality - ✅✅ The same or similar output could be achieved by using
different inputs or by
, Varying the transformation processes.
Permeability of Boundaries - ✅✅ Characteristic of open systems.
Allows the system to be penetrated or affected by the changing external
environment.
Boundary - ✅✅ Limits of a system that set the domain of organizational activity.
Interface - ✅✅ - the area of interdependency between two subsystems or two
systems.
-Can lead to tension or friction:
Hospital tray service....
Friction may result between nurses and nutrition services personnel.
4 Types of Resources - ✅✅ Human (labor and skills)
Materials (food and supplies)
Facilities (space and equipment)
Operational (money, time, utilities, info)
Functional Subsystems Include - ✅✅ - procurement
- Production
- Sanitation, safety, and maintenance
- Distribution and service
Room Service - ✅✅ also advertised as 'quick service'.
Room Service - ✅✅ is the most labor-intensive
Service of the hotel.
Entrepreneur - ✅✅ person who creates and assumes risk for a new venture or
business.
Franchising - ✅✅ right granted by an individual or company (FRANCHISOR)
to an individual or group (FRANCHISE) to market a company's concepts.
Franchisor - ✅✅ right granted by an individual or company.
Franchise - ✅✅ rights are granted to these individual or group.