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Appropriate for Cooking Skills, Food Production or Introductory Cooking courses within Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management departments.

NEW! Exam Prep Guides for The ManageFirst™ Program - An exam prep guide is available for each one of the ten ManageFirst™  titles and are now automatically packaged with each Competency Guide. 

Contents Include:

• Test taking strategies
• Practice exam questions written to the NRAEF test item writing guidelines
• Explanations for answers with remediation to the competency guides
• Glossary of key terms

A brief competency guide which is focused on Food Quality.  Designed to support a core textbook and provide students with marketable management skills for a career within the Culinary Arts and Foodservice industry.

Introducing the ManageFirst Program^TM from the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF).   This new management training certification program is based on a set of competencies defined by the restaurant, foodservice and hospitality industry as those needed for success.   This competency-based program includes 12 topics, each with a competency guide, exam, instructor resources and certificate.  Students earn a certification for each exam passed.  The topics and exams are aligned to typical on-campus courses.

This competency guide includes a PENCIL/PAPER version of the  examination sheet.   NRAEF ManageFirst: Food Production w/ On-line Testing Access Code Card is also available.

For additional information about the NRAEF ManageFirst^TM Program please visit www.prenhall.com/managefirst

Appropriate for Cooking Skills, Food Production or Introductory Cooking courses within Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management departments.

A brief competency guide which is focused on Food Quality.  Designed to support a core textbook and provide students with marketable management skills for a career within the Culinary Arts and Foodservice industry.

Part of the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF) ManageFirst certification program.  The competency guide includes an examination sheet.

NRAEF ManageFirst Program - Hallmark Features:

• Designed and supported by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF).
• NEW, industry-driven, 12 topic, competency-based certificate program.
• Created to provide students with marketable management skills for a career within the Restaurant, Hospitality and Foodservice industries.
• Non-text specific.  Adopters can use any publisher’s text and corresponding Prentice Hall/NRAEF competency guide.
• An academic and industry “think-tank” was formed to design a program based on job-specific skills valued by employers.  This “think tank” included 200 industry hiring managers, trainers, executives and academics.
• The program design and implementation process included an 18-month Job Task Analysis (JTA).
• NRAEF ManageFirst Program includes competency guide, exam answer sheet, NRAEF scoring & processing of a competency-based exam, NRAEF-branded certificate and NRAEF ManageFirst Professional (MFP) credential.
• Transitional and correlation materials available to ease conversion from other certification programs and textbooks to NRAEF ManageFirst Program and Prentice Hall textbooks.

Competency Guide Hallmark Features:

• 150-200 pages per guide.
• Can be used as a “stand alone” item or bundled at a discount with Prentice Hall titles.
• Tremendous pedagogical features, including:
  • “Tuning In to You”
  • Professional Profiles
  • Learning Objectives
  • “Test Your Knowledge”
  • Key Terms
  • Exhibits
  • “Think About It”
  • Activities
  • “Review Your Learning”
  • Field Project
• Accompanied by supplemental materials, including PowerPoint’s and Answers to Activities

NRAEF ManageFirst Program – Core and Foundation (Elective) topics:

NRAEF ManageFirst Core Credential Topics - students must pass all four courses:

• Hospitality and Restaurant Management
• Controlling Foodservice Costs
• Human Resources Management and Supervision
• ServSafe Food Safety

NRAEF ManageFirst Core Foundation (Elective) Topics – students must pass one course:

• Managerial Accounting
• Inventory and Purchasing
• Customer Service
• Food Production
• Menu Marketing and Management
• Restaurant Marketing
• Nutrition (Culinary)
• ServSafe Responsible Alcohol Service

Instructor Supplements available for each Competency Guide:

• Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations with Instructor's Notes
• Answer Keys for self-guided tests and Additional Activities.
• Instructor Correlation Guides that assist in the transition to the NRAEF ManageFirst Program.
• Syllabus builder template
• Classroom activities
• Quizzes and reviews questions (with answers)
• Test Bank of Exam style questions
• Detailed course outlines include:
  • suggested time block
  • activity and objective
  • slides used
  • guide pages covered
  • lecture notes.

Instructor’s resources are available for registered ManageFirst™  instructors.  To register or access instructor materials please visit:  Download Instructor’s Resources

Note: If you will be instructing the ServSafe® Food Safety or ServSafe Alcohol® courses, there are separate instructor registration procedures for these programs.

Chapter 1        Establishing Standard Food Production Procedures

Index

View a Sample Chapter PDF:

• ManageFirst Pencil/Paper Exam Sheet
  NRA National Restaurant Association
  © 2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper | Estimated Availability: 12/18/2008
  ISBN-10: 0135064589 | ISBN-13: 9780135064580
  
  
  

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This package contains:

• NRA National Restaurant Association , ManageFirst: Food with Pencil/Paper Exam (2007)
• NRA National Restaurant Association , Test Prep ManageFirst Food Production (2007)

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• NRAEF ManageFirst: Food Production w/ On-line Testing Access Code Card, 1/E
  NRA National Restaurant Association | ©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 176 pages
  
• Test Prep ManageFirst Food Production, 1/E
  NRA National Restaurant Association | ©2009 | Paper; 64 pages