The Rise of Pop-up Restaurants: A Novel Approach to Instructing Higher Education Hospitality Students in Food and Beverage Management

This book chapter explores the utility of pop-up restaurants as best practices in food and beverage management education. This chapter aims to examine how students use transformative experience-based assessment to foster deep learning, which involves understanding and addressing complex elements of a subject and making connections across different contexts. The chapter starts with an introduction to Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory, which offers a framework for creating educational pedagogies. A case study is presented to demonstrate the implementation of transformative experienced-based pop-up restaurant assessments to address Kolb's four components (1. Concrete experience, 2. Abstract conceptualisation, 3. Active experimentation and 4. Reflective observation) and foster deep learning. It further highlights the benefits, and challenges and recommends incorporating self-reflectivity as an additional criterion of the assessment to enhance the transformative learning process.