Denver Campus Library: CUL1365 Exploring Beverages (Griest): Welcome

Research Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to further your knowledge of costing and waste control. In addition, you will use Excel.

Related Resources

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Print Periodicals

The following periodicals are available in print in the Library.

For a complete listing of titles owned by the Library, visit the Periodicals guide.

Worldcat Discovery Search

Market Research (Consumption, Production, etc.)

Statista
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Statistics, market studies & reports for over 600 international industries, 37 countries, and 60,000 wide-ranging topics.

Click through any security certificate warnings & pop-up blockers that may appear in order to proceed to the Statista website and display all content.
RKMA Market Research Handbooks (R.K. Miller)
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Comprehensive market assessments including forecasts, trends, and statistics. Access handbooks for the Casino, Healthcare, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Leisure, Retail, Sports Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Hotel, and Travel & Tourism sectors.
MarketResearch.com Academic
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Reports include demographics, market trends, forecasts, analysis of major brands, new products, and buyer behavior in such fields as Food & Beverage, Hospitality, Retail, Technology, and more.
MRI+ Reporter
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Provides demographic, product usage, and lifestyle data on magazines, TV, radio, and website consumers.
First-Time Users: Register to set up your free account by using your University email address ending in either @jwu.edu or @wildcats.jwu.edu and a password of your choice. The registration code ZCV1O7IL (case sensitive). Look for a validation email from the vendor "mriplus" then click on the link in the email to activate your account. Must re-register twice a year at the end of January and June of each year.

You cannot use other email such as Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo. Also, you must turn off all pop-up blockers, and the Google Chrome browser will not work.

Articles, Statistics and more

Culinary Arts Collection
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Includes cooking and nutrition magazines, culinary journals and a dozen food and beverage related textbooks. Coverage includes recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
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Full-text articles and country specific reports related to all aspects of the hospitality industry including food and beverage, travel and tourism, casinos, hotels, cruise lines, leisure studies and more.
Hospitality and Tourism (Gale OneFile).
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Full-text articles related to all aspects of the hospitality industry including food and beverage, travel and tourism, casinos, hotels, cruise lines, leisure studies and more.

Lynda.com

Need help with Excel? Lynda.com has step-by-step video tutorials that can help you master the software.

LinkedIn Learning
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A leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. JWU users must create a free account with their wildcat email.

Recommended Reference Books

The following titles are located in the Library's Reference Collection and do not circulate outside the Library. For more information, click the title link.