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UNDERSTANDING HOTEL ORGANIZATIONS

UNDERSTANDING HOTEL ORGANIZATIONS. Organizational Chart Line and Staff Functions Business Forms Revenue Sources Profit and Costs. Contents. Like most service related organizations, hotels are divided between LINE functions and STAFF functions.

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UNDERSTANDING HOTEL ORGANIZATIONS

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  1. UNDERSTANDING HOTEL ORGANIZATIONS

  2. Organizational Chart • Line and Staff Functions • Business Forms • Revenue Sources • Profit and Costs Contents

  3. Like most service related organizations, hotels are divided between LINE functions and STAFF functions

  4. Line functions are the tasks assigned to employees that bring them in regular contact with guests. • Line operations in a hotel are the Rooms Division & Food and Beverage Division. • Line employees are hands-on participants in the assembly and delivery of the hotel’s services. Line Functions

  5. Performs the lodging function of a hotel. • Includes Front Office and Housekeeping • Tasks performed: • Receive reservation • Receive guests • Assign rooms to guests • Maintain status of room (available or vacant?) • Receive mail / phone messages for guests • Maintain security & cleanliness in rooms and public areas • Answer guests’ questions • Close coordination needed by all subunits ROOMS DEPARTMENT

  6. FOOD AND BEVERAGE DEPARTMENT • Provide food and beverage for guests • May include coffee shop, restaurant, poolside snack bar, room service, banquet, function rooms, lobby bar, nightclub / disco, room service • Provides banquet and catering services for events in the hotel

  7. Food and Beverage Department cont. • Consists of kitchen (food preparation) and F&B service • Contains individual F&B outlets – restaurants and coffee shop etc (each managed by a manager) • Full service hotels have convention and catering subunit • Stewarding subunit does the purchasing,cleaning and washing, expediting and arranging facilities for food and beverage

  8. Staff functions are those behind the scenes activities that support the line functions and have little contact with guests. • Example: Engineering, security, human resources, marketing, accounting Staff Functions

  9. Sales and Marketing Department • Individual sales manager in charge of corporate accounts, conventions, tour and travel markets. • Low intradepartmental interdependence. Human Resources Department • Consists of employee recruitment, benefits administration, training subunits Accounting Department • Prepares payroll, manages accounts receivables, accounts payables, handles purchases and cost controls, store room operations, night audits Engineering and Security • Repairs, maintenance, guest security

  10. Engineering Reservations Room status repair Housekeeping Front Office Clean room Concierge / Bellhop Laundry Hotel Functional Organizational Design

  11. LODGING BUSINESS FORMS

  12. The five basic lodging business forms: • Owner operated • Owner managed • Independent • Franchised • Management Contract Lodging Business Forms

  13. Understood to have been the first type of lodging management association • Hotel is run by an owner and the owner’s family • Currently popular Bed and Breakfast hotel is considered owner operated Owner Operated

  14. The owner has hired additional (non-family) personnel to help with the running of the property • The overall management is in the hands of the owner, but day to day operations can be in the hands of others Owner Managed

  15. The owner has no role or management in day to day operations • An independent group of managers are responsible to the owner for the hotel’s performance • The hotel is not chain affiliated Independent

  16. Independently owned hotels that affiliate themselves with a chain • The chain provides standard operating procedures and guidelines to maintain a consistent level of quality and service • The chain has limited control Franchised

  17. You can expect to pay in the range of $90,000 to $150,000 in initial fees for a first-class hotel franchise like Hilton‘s Homewood Suites. Additional costs typically include royalty fees, reservation fees, marketing fees, frequent traveler fees, and miscellaneous charges for items like training or commissions. These numbers are calculated assuming a 300-room hotel with 60% occupancy for the first year, so actual costs can vary. Total costs over ten years can run as high as $10 million or more. Franchise Costs/Benefits

  18. Those with the best relationships with their franchisors reported gross operating profits per room (GOPAR) of $12,400, which translates to over $3.2 million per year in a 300 room hotel. • Top Franchises: Marriott (Ritz Carlton), Hilton, Four Seasons, Park Plaza, Holiday Inn Franchise Costs/Benefits

  19. Independently owned hotels that affiliate themselves with a chain • The chain maintains a high level of control as the chain operates the hotel on the owner’s behalf • Many hotel companies offer both franchises and management contracts. • Management fees are paid as a % of revenues Management Contract

  20. Revenues, Profits and Costs

  21. A revenue source is the result of a product or service a hotel makes available to guests for a price. • Sleeping Rooms • Meeting / Function Space • Outlets / Ancillary Revenue Sources Revenue Sources

  22. The sleeping room is the most profitable of all of the hotel’s products • A sleeping room is an accommodation unit • The price of each of these units is called the room rate • Occupancy is the measurement of how many rooms are sold each night verses how many rooms the hotel has to sell. e.g. 75 rooms sold of 100 rooms available = 75% occupancy rate Sleeping Rooms

  23. Many hotels incorporate the revenue source of non-sleeping rooms sales • Meeting rooms, or function rooms are used for any type of group meeting • The revenue sources from meeting/function space comes from: 1. Selling space for a specified period 2. Providing food and beverage service in these rooms Meeting/Function Space

  24. An outlet is a food and beverage point of sale • Ancillary revenue sources are revenue sources outside of sleeping rooms or food and beverage such as gift shops or spa services. Outlets/Ancillary Revenue Sources

  25. The hotel sleeping room is the most profitable portion of all hotel products because of profit margin. • Profit margin is determined by comparing sales revenue verses the costs incurred in providing a product or service. Profit Margin

  26. Room cost analysis looks at what it costs the hotel to keep a room running in relation to what it is sold for to the guest. Room Cost

  27. ABC Hotel sells a room for an average of $150 per night. The cost incurred in preparing each room for sale are: Heat $3.00 Light $2.00 Power $2.00 Housekeeping $9.00 Engineering/Grounds $5.00 Debt service of owners $0.50 Marketing $2.25 Management costs $2.75 Corporate obligations $2.00 Taxes, etc $2.50 Total: $31.00 • Compare this to the actual cost to the price sold (room rate) and the room cost can be determined: Roomcost = Actual CostRoom Rate = $ 31.00 $150.00 = 21.0% Room Rate – Room Cost = Profit Room Cost Example

  28. A common misconception in the hospitality industry is to consider food sales as profitable as room sales. This is not the case • Food cost is the cost of a particular food item in relation to the price for which it is sold • Put simply, the food cost percentage is the percentage of the profit taken up but the actual cost of the item Food Cost

  29. The equation for determining the cost is: Food cost = Purchase Price / Menu Price For example: Item Purchase Price Menu Price Food Cost Steak $5.95/ea. $22.00 27.0% Chicken $3.95/ea. $17.95 22.0% Caesar Salad $1.99/ea. $ 9.95 20.0% Food Cost Example

  30. Each night when a room goes unsold the hotel loses that opportunity to ever sell it again • This is called opportunity cost • The “Empty Room Theory” states that once a room goes unoccupied, it is gone forever Opportunity Cost

  31. ABC Hotel has 400 sleeping rooms Consider the following example: Room Cost Room Rate Profit Margin Sleeping Room $30.00 $150.00 $120.00 _____________________________________________________________ The daily maximum room profit potential is: $48,000 ($120x400) Weekly: $336,000 Monthly: $1,400,000 Yearly: $17,520,000 $17,520,000 is the maximum potential room profit that ABC Hotel could make in a year. Each unoccupied room subtracts from that number. It is easy to understand why hotel operators focus so much attention on occupancy. Opportunity Cost Example

  32. A captive audience are guests who are staying at the hotel who will utilise the outlet in the hotel. • Captive audience quotients apply to both outlet/ancillary sales and catering sales • Group catering contribution is the catering business acquired by a hotel that has all, or a large percentage of, the attendees staying at the hotel itself Captive Audience Quotient

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