SS1 Catering Craft Practices Lesson Note on Relationship between the Hospitality Industry and Catering

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Importance of catering/relationship between the hospitality industry and catering. 

Importance of catering

1. It helps in acquisition of skills.
2. For provision of trade to help sustain the individual.
3. For development of knowledge and understanding of all foods commodities in terms of quality cost, usage and service.
4. To understand diets and being able to produce dishes in their locality as well as outside their locality.
5. To understand various ways of cooking and varieties of dishes.
6. Acquisition of necessary skills in bakery and confessionary products.
7. Provide ability and in depth knowledge of operating and managing a hospitality business.
8. Provision of self-employment and reduced problem of unemployment.
9. Enhances national development and revenue generation.
10. To understand costing and control system to enable them run their trade profitably

Relationship between the hospitality industry and catering. 

The hospitality and catering trades are interdependent and interwoven. The hospitality industry houses the Catering Trade and cannot perform without the latter. While the Catering Trade is covering feeding and provision of drinks to guests the hospitality industry embraces the service provision to guests which include cordial reception of guests, lodging and provision of food and beverages to guests and customers.

The catering trade is an industry under the hospitality industry. The experience of food and taste is an important element in the hospitality industry. The hospitality industries flourish where there are improved economic conditions. As people become wealthier, their incremental income and disposable income are usually spent on pleasure and luxury items.  This benefit the hospitality industries of which catering is a part of, but whenever there is a down turn in the economy these sectors suffer.

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