REVIEW OF FOOD & BEVERAGE SYSTEMS
CHOICE OF FOOD PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
There are many different business types in the hospitality field,
including hotels, restaurants, in-flight catering, outside catering,
industrial catering and institutional catering. There are examples of
each of these organizations that are run by both, either the private
or public sectors. Depending on the organization and who it supplies
there will be many different ways and styles of preparing foods. In
order to gain a good knowledge of something it is vitally important
that it is observed closely in all its aspects. Bearing this in mind,
different sectors and institutions have been chosen to be studied, in
order that an in depth investigation into them will yield good
comparisons of the similarities and differences in the typical running
of these institutions.
Firstly, selecting the in-flight catering sector it has been chosen to
study Karins Catering, which is a company that caters sandwiches for
airline companies. as well as being an industrial catering
institution, Karins catering is one such established company that has
via its good quality sandwiches, and strong attention to health and
hygiene developed (which will be discussed in detail later) a good
name in the catering sector, that is continuously increasing. Karins'
customers include British Airways, Pakistan International Airways,
Britannia Airways and Easy Jet. These companies have an international
standard, and consequently the investigation will allow a good study
of how Karins achieves the high standards required to keep such
companies in its clientele. Since Karins' food production and supply
systems use the latest equipment, it can be seen to what extent
hi-tech equipment assists in allowing Karins to maintain its standard
of catering. A final reason for choosing this company is because it
is a large company so it can be observed how effective the
communication between the departments of the business is, since
effective communication will be vital in maintaining such a large
companyÂ’s service systems.
In order to analyze different food production systems the second
company chosen has been from the public sector (to allow good
comparisons), the company is NHS Goscote Hospital. The catering
department in this hospital serves not only Gascote Hospital but also
supplies chilled f...
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...r Malwari is much wider in range than either of
the other two, since Karins caters solely for airlines, and Goscote
for hospital patients. Malwari (like Gascote) is renowned for its menu
which offers a large diversity of food types, including barbeque,
Continental, Chinese and in particular traditional Pakistani foods.
The different food types catered by each of the different intuitions
will show how the appropriate catering systems for each, will
consequently vary from each other. Malwari has further been selected
since menu design and item pricing due to the location of the
restaurant is a highly delicate process, because Malwari is situated
in an area that is en-route by both expensive residential estates as
well as lower quality government housing colonies, so it can be
studied how well Malwari is able to cater for its diverse customer
assortment.
The comparable high quality and commended service of each of these
very different sectors in the catering field will allow not only an
investigation into how each business achieves these through
appropriate catering and service systems, but also enable a look into
how efficient each institution is in these aspects.
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