Comparison Between Restaurants

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This is a comparison between two similar restaurants in Houston: One is Mi Luna, Spanish restaurant and the second one is Solero, Tapas restaurant and bar. For this report I have chosen 4 criteria to compare both places in order of importance and service operations.

Comparison criteria

Mi Luna

1) Services offered

a) Restaurant
Monday through Friday, Mi Luna offers restaurant service from 11:00 am to 11:00 pm with some weekly specials such are happy hour, Giant Paella night and Brunch service.

b) Bar- Night club
On Thursday night Mi Luna hosts the LATIN PARTY NIGHT from 11:00 pm to 2:00 am. And the whole restaurant becomes a big dance floor.

2) Operations and Service plan
In this restaurant you find good service but slow seating perhaps its quick table rotation, you may have to wait in long lines that is why they recommend to make reservations; Mi Luna is not a good place for kids but is very good for groups of people because of its fast serving to tables. Type of service is American style where food is cooked and portioned in the place’s kitchen and carried to the tables by waiters but also they use French style for paella because it is cooked tableside in front of the guest’s eyes. This French style has some advantages like elegant, personalized service; is entertaining and fun; and high average check. Disadvantages that are highly trained staff required; more dining room space is needed to provide for the wide aisles required to move preparation cars or gueridon to tables; table turnover lower, high menu prices; higher capital costs incurred because of extensive amount of service and preparation equipment required.



3) Menu Selection and variety
Mi Luna emphasizes a wide variety of traditional Spanish cuisine. The tapas they offer are both cold and hot. They also offer Spanish paella, as well as regional specialty dishes accompanied with a wide variety of wines. The menu extension is about 100 items ...