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ServiceDesk

Restaurant & Hospitality Ops Simulator

Learn practical restaurant operations by doing it. Split a shift's labor hours across roles, price a dish against ingredient cost, diagnose a health-inspection finding before the clock runs out, and seat the dining room across sections.

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Staffing Scheduler
Labor hours vs. shift budget
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Food Cost Calculator
Menu price vs. ingredient cost
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Health Inspection
Timed violation diagnosis
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Table Management
Dining section allocation

Built for

Small business owners running a restaurant or hospitality venue, and new graduates entering restaurant, hotel, or food-service management roles who want hands-on reps before the stakes are real.

Key features

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Staffing Scheduler

Split labor hours across servers, cooks, hosts, and dishwashers, matching the mix to the shift's real demand.

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Food Cost & Menu Margin Calculator

Price dishes against ingredient cost and land within each dish's effective food-cost band.

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Health Inspection Challenge

Diagnose real inspection findings โ€” temperature control, cross-contamination, pests, allergens โ€” before the clock runs out.

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Table Management

Seat incoming covers across dining sections within capacity and turn-time constraints.

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4-Track Academy

40 quiz questions across labor cost, menu engineering, food safety, and table service fundamentals.

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Badges & Certificate

Earn Scheduler, Cost Controller, Inspector, and Floor Manager badges, then unlock a certificate at 100%.

Self-contained & risk-free

Completely self-contained sandbox โ€” no internet required when run locally.

Educational simulation only โ€” all shifts, dishes, inspections, and reservations are fictional and simulated locally. No real restaurant data is ever used.

๐Ÿ“š Take-home practice

Every session pairs with a quick 15โ€“20 min real-world task that turns the simulator into a habit.

This week's challenge

Look at a restaurant menu you have access to and estimate the food-cost percentage on one dish using a rough ingredient-cost guess โ€” then note whether the price feels high, low, or about right for that category.

Estimate food cost % on a real menu item
Note a restaurant's visible food-safety practices
Observe how a dining room seats a rush vs. a slow night

Ready to teach practical restaurant operations?

ServiceDesk is part of our Business & Workforce Track.

โฑ๏ธ Format: Self-paced online lab ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Access: Runs in any modern browser
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