SITHKOP015

Application

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to design profitable menus for all types of cuisines and food service styles. It requires the ability to identify target markets for the organisation, design menus to meet market preferences, price menu items and to monitor and evaluate the success of menu performance.

The unit applies to hospitality and catering organisations and to those people who operate independently and are responsible for making a range of operational and strategic decisions. This includes senior catering managers, and sous, head and executive chefs.

The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State or Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Assessment Conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in a business where menus are designed or costed. This can be:

• an industry workplace; or
• an industry-realistic simulated environment.

Assessment must ensure access to:

• commercial information:

• financial data and budgets for the operation of a hospitality industry businesses

• product information:

• purchase specifications
• commodity price lists
• recipes
• costs of food supply for food service businesses

• internet access for research
• spreadsheet and word processing programs for menu costing and writing.

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors and:

• have achieved the Certificate III or Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery, or Certificate III or IV in Catering Operations, or Certificate III or IV in Patisserie, or their successors; or
• hold a trade certificate as a cook or chef or equivalent;

and

• have worked in industry for at least three years where they have applied the skills and knowledge of this unit of competency.