As senior Hospitality and Tourism Management majors, our capstone assignment is to create, manage and execute an entire themed event for 160 guests. In choosing a theme, we must take into consideration all the possible entertainment and food ideas that can accompany it. Our group worked together to figure out ways to execute the event with a staff of approximately 30 underclass HTM students. Each team is broken up into management departments including reception, dining room and back of house. Each management team member is responsible for decisions on behalf of their area. In addition, each team member is responsible for managing their department and staff the night of the dinner. Teams are accountable for staying within a proposed budget; optimistically ending with a total net income of zero. These numbers are based on the price of the number of tickets sold, food, beverage, décor and other related items.
Our dinner, “Atlantis: A mythical city rises from the sea…” will take place on Saturday, February 9, 2008 in the Festival B-C Ballroom at James Madison University. The event will take dinner guests on a journey to the bottom of the sea where they will discover the ruins of Atlantis.