Food Suppliers and the Catering Trade - Learning to Manage a Kitchen Order
The catering trade isn't easy to run. It's based on an element of unpredictability, and constantly battles with itself to balance the need to have as much food as its guests want, with the requirement not to order too much. It takes a while to get used to the routines of food ordering. The novice manager isn't helped by the fact that different owners have different ways of doing things. Some prefer to keep their stocks on the dangerous side of low, stating that they would rather run out of items and take them off the menu until the food suppliers next visit: while others can't abide the idea that a customer could order something from the menu that isn't available anymore. The two points of view are represented, in one way or another, across the board of catering establishments and hospitality industry locations. The first point of view is not just financially motivated. It is, of course, true that you can't lose money on food if you are selling more tha...