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TOPIC: Catering Establishment
Sub Topic 1: Types of catering establishments
Sub Topic 2: Types of Catering establishment contd./ Functions of catering establishment.
Types of Catering Establishments
Catering establishment can be classified into two (2). They are commercial and non- commercial. The commercial catering establishment are traditionally considered or known for profit operations, while the non-commercial catering establishment is for welfare catering, which is characterized by its non- profit making focus minimizing cost by achieving maximum efficiency. However with the introduction of competitive tendering, many public sector operations have been won by contract caterers who have introduced new concepts and commercialism with the public sector. This sector is commonly known as the cost sector.
COMMERCIAL CATERING ESTABLISHMENT
- RESTAURANT CATERING: A restaurant is an establishment that serves the customer with prepared food and beverages on order, to be consumed on the premises. The term covers a multiplicity of venues and a diversity of style of cuisine. Restaurant are sometimes also a feature of a large complex, typically a hotel here the dinning amenities are provided for convenience of the resident and for the hotel to maximize their potential revenue.
- OUTDOOR CATERING: This catering includes the provision of food and drinks away for home base and supplied. The venue is left to the people choice. Hotels, restaurant and catering contractors meet this growing demand (they handle and catering the services). The type of food and set-up depends entirely on the price agreed upon; outdoor catering includes catering for functions such as wedding, birthdays, other party, conventions etc.
- LEISURE-LINKED CATERING: This type of catering refers to the provision of food and beverages to people engaged in rest and recreation activities. This includes scale of food and kiosks at exhibition, theme parks, galleries and theatres. The increase in the availability of leisure time and a ;large disposable income for leisure activities has made it a very profitable form of catering.
- HOTEL CATERING. In the pasts hotels operates food and beverages facilities merely for their guests, but today’s hotelier are in increasing adopting a more pro-active approach by using their food and beverage outlets as a means to generate profit and also to publicize the hotel. Hotel as a catering establishment operates as follows :
- Featuring restaurant that cater primarily for resident of the hotel and for work-in guests who are not residents. These often take the form of casual, all-day dinning facilities .The most enterprising of these are attempting to attract different customers at different time of the day.
- Some hotel developed a restaurant as a brand that stands alone aimed at walking in customer, they come and buy not necessary lodge in a hotel.
- SCHOOL CATERING. Schools were primary, secondary or university operates as day or boarding. Some, day only while some boarding only while some both day and boarding whichever one is operated a way of providing meals for students and teachers is made. The standard of school meal should provide food containing nutrients essential for the children and the young people.
- DRIVE THROUGH RESTAURANT: It’s a new concept of catering but becoming popular now. This is relayed to the fast food service point and as the car moves forward in the queue; the order is prepared and then presented to the driver at the service window.
- MOBILE CATERING: In mobile catering, a van or a truck is used to carry and served food. All the items inform of food, snacks, drinks, crockeries, cutleriesetc. are carried in the van the service of food and drinks are done from the van.
- HOSPITAL CATERING: Hospital catering assist the medical team to get patient well as soon as possible. In majority of the hospitals all the food except diet is cooked in the main kitchen. In this kitchen all meals for patients, staffs and visitors is prepared. A staff restaurant is provided and there may be a snack bar for out-patient which may come under the control of the catering staff. In some hospitals the food for special diet will be prepared in a diet bay by diet cook supervised by qualified dieticians.
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