【正文】 and such entertainment possibilities as sporting events ,moving, and the theater, some hotels give employees special training in how to give directions and provide lists of lccal attraction. Originally the hotel restaurant was a designed to give a traveler in a stranger city a place to eat where the food would be good or at least palatable and safe to eat . in recent years ,however, the restaurant industry has growth both in diversity of concept and more location ,making restaurant food service readily available .many successful chain restaurant food service readily available .many successful chain restaurants carry well –kown , brand names to which travelers are accustomed,in the face of stiffening restaurant petition for the hotel guest ‘s food and beverage patronage, some hoteliers have developed hotels ,such as the economy and all suite properties that offer only very limited food service usually a plimentary breakfast and , in full service operation continues to be not only a vital serbice but a key petitive weapon. many fullservice hotel have several quite different food outlets . this extends the services available to the guest and helps keep the guest’s food business in the hotel. while well run restaurant and banquet departments are vital to full service hotels, they are not by any means an easy thing to deliver. in fact, there’s an old saying among hotel people that “if you are run the food ,the hotel will run itself .” like most folkore , this exaggeration carries more than just a grain of truth.Some large prshaoperties off a catering department headed by a catering manager who books and sells banquets .smaller properties include by a catering manager who books and sells properties draw banquet service staffs .smaller properties draw banquet service personnel their regular crew and often supplement them with part time employees. banquet are often profitable but ,once again ,in many properties the banquet menus and banquet rooms are meat principally to serve the room s department , thus ,a meeting may occupy one conference room all days .properties the hotel supplies a coffee break and a luncheon in another room . it probably charges the business people little . if anything , over what those meals and snacks would cost in the logic we have mentioned before clearly applies, the 70 percent profit on room sales makes desirable this use of banquet spare ., Some department or activities in the hotel offer no direct guest service . in stead ,they maintain systems for the property as a whole ,such as sales, marketing ,and engineering ,some of these acticvities do ,however ,sercent profit on room sales makes desirable this use of banquet space . Marketing means designing a hotel to suit the need and tastes of potential guests or shaping the operations of an existing property to its most likely guest a second marking function is encouraging the property p pleasant and convenient ,finally ,marketing is promoting the property pleasant and convenient ,and groups of guests. marking is a general management function that involves all levels of the operation . one important day to day activity in this area is personal selling . Capital cost include rent ,depreciation, and interest , a related cost , property taxes ,can be included here because there taxes are dependent on the value of the land and the building .depreciation is a bookkeeping entry that reflects the assumption that the original cost of the hotel building ,furniture,and fixtures should be gradually written off over their life .interest,of course, is the charge paid to the lenders for the use of their funds .the hotel industry is capital intensal estat