Types of Catering and Factors for an Enjoyable Restaurant Experience

1. What is the difference between each of the following types of catering?: • Pub • Function • Systemised • Franchise. 

Define each in 1-3 sentences then discuss differences in 2-3 paragraphs (total).  

2. If you were organising to entertain three business colleagues in a restaurant, what factors would be most important to ensure they all had an enjoyable experience?  List them and then give a brief explanation. (2-3 sentences)  

3. Briefly explain using bullet points how each of the following establishments might be made more profitable by new management:  

• A licensed bar with poor turnover  • A sandwich bar with lots of lunch time business, but which is very slow at other times • An a-la-carte restaurant which is only patronised well during summer.  

4. Report on the three businesses you investigated in your set task. Write a half page discussing each. 

Nutritional Terms:

Food: food is a substance absorbed and integrated by an animal or a plant to keep a person alive, enable them to grow, nourish them and nutriment them.

Nutrition: food intake is nutrition, considered with a human body’s dietary needs.

Diet: food consumed by a human is diet. The diet must be Lower in sugar, calories, fat etc in comparison of regular product (Hawkes & Ruel, 2012).

Ans2) 

Essential Minerals:

Calcium: Fish and almonds

Magnesium: cheese and watercress

Sodium: Salt and eggs

Iron: meat and fish

Chlorine: smoked meats and cheeses (Somer,1995).

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Common Source of Fat:

Fish

Nuts

Oils/vegetable Spreads

Seeds

Avocados

Ans4) 

Carbohydrate Source:

Apple

Steamed Potatoes

Wholemeal Bread

Corn Flakes

Fruit Salad

Ans5) 

Poor sources of Carbohydrate:

Candy

White Flours

Soda and soft drink

Milk chocolate or other flavoured milk

Pastries (Hristov et al, 2005).

Ans6) 

Source of Protein from Animal and plants

Meat and Poultry

Fish and Seafood

Chicken Breast

Dairy product

Nuts and seeds

Beans and Legumes

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Nutrition’s importance in food and beverage industry:

Nutrition plays a key role in human life.  A good nutrition plan helps the food and beverage industry to enhance its market share rapidly and increase the customer satisfaction. Nutritional plan cost a little higher but customer gets more attracted towards it as people are so concern for their health now days.  Nutrition diet works as a CRM for food and beverage industry. Industry shows their concern towards each and every element of food like protein, fat, etc.