F&B Controller

F&B Controller:

An F&B (Food & Beverage) Controller is a financial professional in the hospitality industry, primarily responsible for managing and optimizing the costs associated with food and beverage operations. This role involves monitoring inventory, controlling expenses, analyzing financial data, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations.

Areas of Responsibility:

• In conjunction with the Provision Master, provides analysis of F&B stores consumption to handle the ordering of Food and Beverage as exact as possible.
• Input in the computer all bar stock received.
• Maintain the food inventory updated on a daily in cooperation with the Provision Master.
• Carry out spot-checks on the hotel stores rotating stock-takes.
• Carry out checks on storing operations on the pier.
• Input in the computer all the requisitions.
• Control and ensure that not a single item leaves the stores without requisition.
• Accounts for any stock transfer between onboard locations.
• Inputs physical bar stock counts into the computer system and analyze results highlighting the discrepancies for additional counts or reviews.
• Hold minimum each second day a spot check on physical inventories held in the bars, food and beverage stores, galleys and cellars.
• Monitors controls tips and bonuses to bar staff.
• Performs any other duty as requested by His/Her superiors.
• Compiles a physical inventory routine for each food & beverage locations. Verifies level of inventory at least once a cruise or more are required, daily in the Crew Bar and any other bar with high variances.
• Prepares a voyage report in the end of each cruise to be signed by the F&B Manager and send to the shore side office.
• Day to day supervision and management of the responsibilities detailed above.
• Spreading random audits and reconciliation´s over the voyage and moving forward with new computer installations and controls procedures, whilst tackling systems and financial control problems, as these occur.
• Run end of the day on all bar point of sales workstations; distribute daily sales analysis reports as required.
• Feed figures into spreadsheets format to carry out the control functions described above.