MUSIC & COMEDY

Music and comedy was a Saturday night concert on the Barbra Bistro. Music knight has grown into local attraction and international artist enjoying stage locally (Mmegi, 2015). The event attracted artists from South Africa, giving a family style soothe music including jazz, brass, and stand-up comedy.

Lollicrap & Couzins, (2010) states that the event surrounding contributes a great deal towards the price- quality relationship in the minds of potential customers and a feeling of cleanliness of the surroundings. During the event more efforts was put on decorating for the day, artifacts, wall hangings connected well with the theme of the event.

Also q well designed color scheme can easily be spoilt by a bad planned lighting system (Walker, 2008). A blue- white mixture was used during the event, with a low energy low temperature warning light giving a warm romantic atmosphere. At the stage the artists brought with them the lights operator with them the lights operator who controlled the lights while artists perform. It was evidenced that décor and lights plays an important role.

References  
Walker, J. (2008) The Restaurant from the Restaurant from Concept to Operation, (5th ed), USA; John Wiley & Sons
Lillicrap, D. & Cousins, J. (2010) Food and Beverage Service (4^th ed); USA: John Wiley & Sons
Mmegi, (2014) Arts; retrived from;https://www.facebook.com/MmegiOnline; accessed on- 12-02 2015

ADONSONIA WEDDING EVENT

In most wedding events nowadays are hosted in venues most brides want to serve a meal or an atmosphere worthy of their celebration. Adonsonia Hotel in Francistown is well marked venue to host weddings.

According (Wedding wire, 2015) state that one should consider how the food to be served, buffet style, family dinner style or appetizer can be served on trays carried by attendants or set out on tables. The Adonsonia hotel service offers all options to suit individual preferences, however the buffer service was the one chosen for the day while appetizers were served by attendants.

Furthermore planning a wedding also require thinking about the multitude service one will want and choices available for them (Wedding.com, 2015). The Adonsonia garden services favors photography and video recording enhance the quality background in pictures.

Another aspect is to consider when planning is a wedding theme, planning a theme can help set color options, decorations and even food choices (Self-help Module 14, 2007) ). With the resources available at Adonsonia Hotel, they make sure all the set-up adhere to the event theme.

All this aspects that are critical for wedding planning, and makes Adonsonia Hotel a place of choice for most weddings in Francistown 

 References 
weddingwire, (2015) wedding Planning; Retrived from: www.weddingwire.com/wedding-planning.html?pcode-tool: accessed ; 2/4/2015
Wedding.com, (2015)The New Way to Plan Your Wedding, Retrived from: www. wedding.com/; Accessed on: 5/04/2015
Self-help Module 14 (2007) Event Management, New- Wales; Department of State and Regional development; retrived from: http//:www.ifea.com; accessed on 19-11-2014

DONATION TO HELP THE NEED

As a respond to the office of the president to help the need, BAC hospitality class planned and organized a donation event for one of the identified person in Gerald, Francistown. These kind of events are known as cooperate social responsibility events, which refers to give back to the community (Clarke & Chen, 2007).

During the event an organizational structure was designed. Capell (2013) state that organizational structure is needed to produce the events and have an existing structure that can be adopted to suit the needs of the event . Also Conway (2009) state that typical structure is an event committee that oversees an event and is responsible for the day to day implementation through the event coordinator. Furthermore the author argues that the event committee should include a range of people with strong standing and with a good mix of leadership and decision making skills.

However the commit that was chosen during the event wasn’t active enough to carry their tasks, for example, donation sheets were given to the class raps by the coordinator without notifying the commit and donation boxes that were supposed to be displayed in both BAC campuses in Francistown for students to donate clothes in were not displayed as agreed. This resulted in other donors hold back their donations as there were told that there will be donation boxes in place.

Even though the event took place, lack of appropriate coordination by the chosen committee affected some of the on-set evaluated aspects.

References
Capel, L. (2013) Event Management for Dummies: London; John Wiley & Sons

Clarke, A. & Chen, W. (2007). International Hospitality Management; Concepts and Cases: London:, John Wiley & Sons
Conway, D. (2009) The Event Management Bible (3rd ed), London; How To Books

WINE TESTING EVENT

Events such as wine testing are well known of pulling massive crowed of wine lovers, and some hospitality sectors nowadays use this form of events to also market their establishment. But were people gather together there is a critical part of the overall event process and should be included in the overall event planning, which is waste management (Bowdin et al, 2012).

Waste management is an appropriate process of disposing waste Moonga, M. (2011). A waste wise event takes responsibility for waste management with waste and recycling collection services. According to Bladen, C. et al, (2012) state that one has to develop a waste wise plan for the event and also to encourage attendees to participate actively in waste management efforts.

During the event waste disposal equipment’s were placed in every corner of the event, coded differently in accordance with the type of waste, for an example a bin for cans, a bin for bottles, a bin for left over foods and a bin for papers. Effective wise waste management can modify the impact on the event.

References  
Bladen, C., Kennell, J., Abson, E. & Wilde, N. (2012) Events Management; An Introduction; USA; Routledge

Moonga, M. (2011) Environmental Education in Waste management;Zambia ; LAP LAMBERT

NYANGABWE HOSPITAL: BRING HOPE TO PATIENTS

This event was designed to give back to the community by BAC hospitality class. Also as way to take part in the Botswana vision 2016 pillars campaign of compassionate and caring nation. Furthermore hospital catering are non- commercial sectors of hospitality (Dahmer & Kahl, 2009). The class took part in the preparation of the patients’ meals during the day.

Evidence showed that menu was designed according to the recommendation from the dietitians and sectioned in the kitchen with the cold prep kitchen preparing salads and desserts, the hot kitchen preparing meats and starches and dietitian section preparing for special needs. However a menu is a set of dishes or courses that appeal to the customer and supplement all the nutrients necessary to customers (Lillicrap & Cousins, 2010). In this scenario patients are the hospitality customers and the menu was designed support their recovery. For the patients who find it difficult to feed themselves there were given supplementary meals. However nutritional care is a key in helping the recovering of patients in hospitals (Food for Thought, 2011).

According to (Dahmer & Kahl, 2009) state that essential safety is a civil duty and negligence is a criminal offence and staff had to understand the food hygiene regulations and act within the bounds of these regulations. However the Nyangabwe hospital kitchen consists of illiterates’ staff but it was evidence that they are competent in maintaining a safe environment because of often training. They are trained every quarter of the year to refresh them on some critical aspects of the kitchen.

References

Dahmer, S. & Kahl, K. (2009) Restaurant Services Basics (2^nd ed): USA: John Wiley& Sons

Lillicrap, D. & Cousins, J. (2010) Food and Beverage Service (4^th ed); USA: John Wiley & Sons

Patient and Client Council, (2011) Food for Thought; Views of Patients and the Public on Hospital Meals; Retrived From: www.patientclientcouncil.nscni.net. Accessed on; 16-12-2015

BARBRA BISTRO BRAAI KNIGHT

 

Every event was unique characteristics, as Barbra Bistro is one of the famous places to host events of different styles. On November 2014 they hosted a Braai session night to give their customer a taste of different barbeques.

(Self-Help module 14, 2007) states that event refers to a general session that takes place to serve a certain purpose, and (Vanella, 2008) argues that is important to select a venue that incorporate the amenities that best serve your people. Barbra Bistro is situated in the middle of the city town of Francistown with a wide spread of car parking. It is also have facilities, a garden at the back to support this type of event and wide carrying capacity. Another consideration is power supply and a backup plan (Bowdin, 2012). At the event back up power supply was put in place in case of power failure

All these answers define practical production aspects for the event venue.

References
Bowdin,G.A.,Allen,J.,0’Toole,W.,Harris,R.,and McDonnell(2012)Events Management: USA Routledge.

Self-help Module 14 (2007) Event Management, New- Wales; Department of State and Regional development; retrived from: http//:www.ifea.com; accessed on 19-11-2014

Vanella, J. (2008). Designing an Exceptional Event Experience; Opening Moments Media: retrived from; http//www.openingmoments.com; accessed on; 2-03-2015

 

FRANCISTOWN MARATHON

Francistown marathon was an event held on the 15th of February. the event attracted athletes across southern Africa. And also sponsors around Francistown because is one of a kind to be held in the town. According to Bowdin et al (2011) states that often an event will be sponsored by two or more organization.

The Event was sponsored by Be mobile as the main sponsor, coca cola, cresta and Medi- rescue Botswana. Legae, (2005) states that events will involve the promotion of sponsors name and logo and product or service by the event organizer. During the event the runner's costumes were branded with sponsor's logos and flyers were displayed at the finish line. Moreover  Haden (2012) states that event and festival sponsorship can be ideal way for marketers to create brand interaction with consumers and stakeholders, for example during the event marketers managed to take advantage of the crowed and communicate their brand, also every event provides an experience. The key is to partner with events that provide an experience people will associate positively with your brand and further characterizes and adds depth to your brand

Sponsors are important for the financial support of the event and event planner need to take of sponsor’s for sustainable sponsorship.

References 

Bowdin,G.A.,Allen,J.,0’Toole,W.,Harris,R.,and McDonnell(2012)Events Management: USA Routledge.

Haden, J (2012) Sponsoring An Event? Tops To Maximize Your Return. Retrieved from: http//www.inc.com/jeff-haden/sponsoring an Event; accessed on 01-04-2015

Legae, W. (2005) Sport Sponsorship And Marketing Communications; An European Perspective. Harlow, Financial Times prentice Hall