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Hospitality/Culinary Instructor Membership

RestaurantOwner.com is committed to educating and inspiring independent restaurant owners to build better restaurants, better businesses, and better lives. We do so by providing insights, tools, and training to help improve the business, systems, and culture skills which we believe are essential for sustainable restaurant success.

This commitment extends to future restaurant owners as well. For this reason, we are teaming up with hospitality, restaurant management, and culinary institutions that share this commitment.

Our newly updated Hospitality/Restaurant Management membership plans have been designed to supplement the curriculum offered by the more than 300 hospitality and restaurant management career programs throughout the U.S.

Our Hospitality/Culinary Instructor Membership Plan is a 6-month complimentary membership for professors and instructors who teach students pursuing hospitality and restaurant management careers, or accredited culinary certifications.

We have assembled a collection of online courses, training videos, whitepapers, and downloadable templates to help students go beyond theoretical learning by using the same resources which have helped independent restaurant owners achieve their lifelong dreams of restaurant ownership.

As a participating member, instructors are *permitted to use and share these resources with students while in the classroom. Some of the ways for sharing include:

  • PDF copies of all whitepapers and articles can be printed, emailed, or hosted on a shared drive.
  • Training videos and webinars can be presented using a screencast either live or through online meetings.
  • Printed or PDF copies of our downloadable template forms and documents can be used to show students "how-to" examples.
  • Screenshots and excerpts from RO resources can be used within your PowerPoint or other presentations.
          * With proper citing and accreditation to RestaurantOwner.com

RestaurantOwner.com also offers 6-month, discounted student memberships. Like books and other supplies, instructors can require students to subscribe to this limited RO membership as part of their course curriculum. When doing so, instructor's membership remains complimentary (see details below).

Some of the benefits for requiring student membership include:

  • Students can download all RO templates and use them as part of the course curriculum.
  • They will have direct access to view-on-demand training videos and webinars.
  • Students can take any of our Online Courses and can print certificates of completion.
  • Online discussion forum to get their questions answered.
  • Access to sample business plans, operational forms, operator success stories and thousands of other articles, success stories, surveys and more.

Hospitality/Culinary Instructor Membership Plan Pricing

The initial 180-day membership period is free to all certified instructors. Membership remains free when instructors require students to subscribe to RO as part of the class curriculum.

Instructors are awarded 30 additional days of membership for each student subscriber. For example, if 10 students sign up for membership during the semester, the instructor will get 300 days added to their membership expiration date, resulting in a complimentary membership of 480 days. Instructors are only billed if their complimentary period expires.

If the complimentary period expires, the renewal rate is $79 every 180 days, cancel anytime.

For more information on how your school can participate in this program, please contact us at [email protected] or call us at (877) 533-4449.

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**We offer additional discounts for institutions making a bulk purchase of Instructor and Student memberships. Please inquire for pricing.

Recommended Resources

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

Hospitality/Culinary Student Plan Pricing

Student subscribers have full access to RestaurantOwner.com content to use within the classroom, projects, and instructor-assigned learning.

Each student has a customized dashboard that tracks their learning progress and shows suggested content. Suggested content has been created based upon professor feedback and has been organized into basic categories (shown to the right).

The cost for students is only $79 for a 180-day subscription.


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Instructor Testimonials



"Students don't want textbooks anymore – 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 the magazine 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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