Revenues💸 are cute!
But so is my 🐈
Rooms🛏️full, Wallet 👛empty?
Food🍔, Booze 🍾
& Bottom lines
Costs that
Sneak & Peak😱
Ratios🔣& Reality🧮
100

This metric is ADR × Occupancy.

What is RevPAR?

100

In this cost center the supplies, laundry, external labour and TA commissions are booked.

What is the Rooms Department?

100

This is the highest cost in the M&E & F&B department for RHG with 41,9% of total revenue.

What is Payroll (fixed and contracted labour)?

100

These are the 3 other Departmental Cost Centers impacting the Profitability of the hotels.

What are A&G (Administrative & General), A&S  (Advertising & Sales or Sales & Marketing) and R&M (Repair & Maintenance)?

100

This profit line is often used as “property-level performance,” calculated after departmental costs and undistributed operating expenses are deducted from the revenue.

What is GOP (Gross Operating Profit)?

200

These are the 5 Clubs of RHG.

What are the 1. Club of M&E 2.Club of Revenue 3.Club of Web 4.Club of Sales 5. Club of Voice

200

This is the flow-through % for every EUR more earned via ADR which should be delivered to the bottom line.

What is 85% flow-through?

200

These are the 4 Cost Centers that belong to the F&B Departmental Costs.

What are Payroll, COGS, F&B other variable costs (supplies & equipment, laundry) & Travel Agent Commission.

200

These 4 Departmental Costs are booked under A&G in the USALI.

What are General Management, Human Resources, IT and Finance & Accounting?

200

This measures how much of incremental revenue becomes profit (e.g. €45k profit on €100k revenue).

What is flow-through percentage?

300

These are 4 tools which the hotels and the operational departments are using to optimize their profitability.

What is PMI or Pulse Productivity Tool, Pulse, Power BI Reporting & Hotelkit.

300

This Pulse Dashboard shows the Q1-Q4 OTB, BGT, FCST figures for Rooms, F&B, M&E & Other (and is personal favourite of Claude). 

What is the Forecast Evolution dashboard?

300

A banquet coffee break costs €3.40 pp and sells at €9.00 pp. The gross margin % is approximately?

What is 62% (margin €5.60 ÷ €9.00).

300

This important task of the revenue team avoids operational mis-planning like wrong planning of labour and manning, and incorrect purchasing volumes which leads to reduced profitability.

What is Accurate Forecasting?

300

Unlike GOP, this profit measure subtracts rent/lease costs, management fees, insurances and property & miscellaneous taxes.

What is EBITDA? 

400

This is the total revenue RHG wants to achieve for EMEA Leased & Managed Hotels in 2026.

What is 755 MEUR? 

(RO 591 MEUR, FB 77 MEUR, ME 94 MEUR, OTH 9 MEUR)

400

🎁 : This is Gaby's favourite Drink.

What is Champagne?

400

🎁: Who are your absolute Favorite Regional Director of Revenue Optimization and Managing Director?

Who are Gaby & Claude?

400

These 4 costs are fixed when a room is sold no matter the price.

What are 1. Toiletries 2. Towels & Linen 3. Coffee, Tea & Water 4. Guest Stationary

400

This is a productivity KPI described as “Revenue per labour hour,” used in PMI/Pulse Benchmark Tool.

What is RevPOLU?

  

500

🎁 : This is Claude's favourite colour. 

What is Orange? 

500

Which business is more profitable : A) 100 rooms with 100 EUR ADR without 15.000 EUR M&E/F&B or B) 100 rooms with 50 EUR ADR with 15.000 EUR M&E/F&B. Cost per room = EUR 30. F&B profitability = 25%.

What is A? (100 rooms x 100 EUR = 10.000 EUR w. 3.000 EUR costs. Prof. = 7.000 EUR and no cost in F&B)

What is B? (100 rooms x 50 EUR = 5.000 EUR w. EUR 3.000 costs. Prof. = 2.000 EUR + 15.000 x 25% = 3.750 EUR prof. = 5.750 EUR profit.

500

This is a data driven method to increase F&B profitability by evaluating each dish based on Profitability & Popularity.

What is Menu Engineering? 

This approach helps you decide which items to promote, adjust, redesign, or remove so your menu drives maximum profit—not just revenue.

500

🎁 : This is the most profitable Managed Hotel in EMEA in GOP% in 2025.

What is Radisson Resort & Residence Zavidovo? A whopping GOP of 70.2%! 

500

🎁 : This is the most profitable Leased Hotel in EMEA in GOP% in 2025.

What is the Radisson Blu Edinburgh City Center? An amazing GOP of 59.2%!

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