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Hospitality & Culinary Education Center

For more than two decades, RestaurantOwner.com has enriched the learning process for restaurant and hospitality management students.

Our newly updated Hospitality & Culinary student plans are designed to supplement the curricula offered by the more than 300 U.S. hospitality management and culinary degree programs.

Hospitality & Culinary Institution Plans

RestaurantOwner.com provides additional benefits for restaurant management and culinary institutions that require students to subscribe to RO membership as part of their course curriculum.

Participating institutions entering into a licensing agreement with RO will enjoy privileged access to Online Courses, Training Videos, PDF versions of articles for use on their institution's learning management platform (Canvas, Blackboard, etc.) when instructing student members of RO.

Students and instructors will have a custom branded dashboard that displays the school's logo, school designated resources, and student progress graph. 

For institutions wishing to purchase student licenses, we offer discounted rates based upon the total number of students and faculty having access.

ManageFirst Resources

Hospitality HR Mgmt. and Supervision
Hospitality and Restaurant Management
Controlling Foodservice Costs
Food and Beverage Management
Purchasing
Customer Service

Additional Resources

Business/Financial Planning
Marketing
Costs & Financial Management
People and Culture
Leadership
FOH Management
BOH Management
Purchasing and Cost Control
Menu Development


Informational Pages

Instructor Testimonials



"Students want more than just textbooks – they want tools. That's why I have all my students sign up for RestaurantOwner.com instead of buying a textbook for my course in restaurant development. They especially like the videos that reinforce key concepts like prime cost and labor budgeting, and of course, the business planning and financial templates are a huge to help them as they develop their restaurant ideas for class.

What's great is how many of those students maintain their memberships to RestaurantOwner.com after they graduate. It has really useful material on just about everything they need to get their real-life restaurants open and to operate them profitably. That's why I like to create content for the site -- it's a great learning tool for anyone who wants to become a successful restaurateur."

Stephani Robson, Senior Lecturer Emerita
Cornell University


"University hospitality management education is as much about application as theory. I supplement my course materials with articles, videos, and more on RestaurantOwner.com so that my students can learn how to put restaurant business and management best practices into action.

RestaurantOwner.com content on restaurant accounting, finance, HR, marketing, and operations helps students conceptualize and apply key concepts in these areas better than any resource available."

H.G. Parsa, Barron Hilton Professor of Lodging Management
Daniel's College of Business, University of Denver
Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management, Endowed Chair


"RestaurantOwner.com's mission is to educate independent owners and operators on restaurant business best practices in clear and practical terms and to provide systems and tools to help their managers and staff become more effective and satisfied team members.

I believe serving as editor of its magazine, Restaurant Startup & Growth, has made me a more effective university business school professor, particularly with the growing student interest in entrepreneurship. I've used the site's content in the finance, HR, and law courses I've taught to help students make the leap from theory to relevant real-world application.

As an affordable online course supplement, RestaurantOwner.com can be a boon to any hospitality instructor's curriculum across all restaurant management subjects — accounting, finance, HR, law, marketing, and operations."

Barry Shuster, Clinical Associate Professor
North Carolina Central University School of Business


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