Food and Beverage Services
Food and Beverage Services
Services
F&B Services can be of the following two types:
Off Premise or
On Outdoor
Catering
Premise
There are two broad types of F&B Services
operations:
1
In this case, F&B Services is the primary business.
Commercia The most known commercial catering
establishments.
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2
Non-Commercial
Non-commercial operations are secondary businesses
in alliance with the main business. These F&B services
mainly cater to their consumers with limited choice of
food and beverages. These establishments often run
under contracts.
Let us first
understand some
common forms of
F&B service.
1 Catering 2 QSR 3 FSR
Catering is the These are the fast They are fine dining, family,
specialty, ethnic, or
business of providing food outlets called theme restaurants called
foods and beverage Quick Service Full Service Restaurants
service to the people Restaurants where the where the food and
beverage menu is wide
at a remote location. It food is prepared, and the customer’s
is a part of food and purchased, and expectations are high.
beverage service generally consumed They are operated with
customer satisfaction
sector. quickly. They are run and experience as the
with convenience as a key factors
main factor.
Food Preparation Operations
Issuing
Cooking
Storing and
Preparing
Preparing
Purchasing
for Service
Cleaning
after
Consumptio Serving
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Food and Beverage Service
Objectives
The need to taste
To satisfy the following different varieties
Physiological
needs: of food.
and
Beverage The need to find
Social friendly
Service atmosphere.