Professional Catering 1st Edition

PROFESSIONAL CATERING equips readers with the knowledge and tools to start and position a competitive catering business. It addresses industry best practices and emerging trends while taking a practical approach to resources that can be used in implementing business plan. Beautifully illustrated with four-color photography, this easy-to-read resource is packed with Tips from the Trade, Ingredients for Success, standard operating procedures, checklists, forms, and hands-on applications designed to develop critical thinking skills. Comprehensive information is provided on each functional catering management task-planning, organizing, influencing, and controlling-helping readers strategically craft a long-term strategy to create a profitable catering operation. It also offers thorough coverage of the business plan, finding and keeping the right client, designing a sustainable operation, resolving conflict, social media, managing risk, understanding legal issues, adhering to FDA and OSHA guidelines, partnering with the event planner to exceed a client's needs, and much more. PROFESSIONAL CATERING is the ideal resource for managing catering profitability. Professional Catering 1st Edition is written by Stephen B. Shiring and published by Cengage Learning. ISBNs for Professional Catering are 9798214351339, and the print ISBNs are 9781133280781, 1133280781. Additional ISBNs include 9781285654584, 9781285546001, 9781285306575, 9780357697573.