Catering: A Guide to Managing a Successful Business Operation, Second Edition provides the reader with the tools to fully understand the challenges and benefits of running a successful catering business. Catering was written as an easy-to-follow guide using a simple step-by-step format and provides comprehensive coverage of all types of catering.

A COMPREHENSIVE, UPDATED GUIDE WITH ALL THE INFORMATION NEEDED TO LAUNCH AND OPERATE A SUCCESSFUL CATERING BUSINESS OF ANY KIND

Today, most customers attending a catered event demand that the overall experience of food, beverage, and service be as good as, if not superior to, that provided by their favorite restaurants. Add in the skyrocketing numbers of high-end food trucks, pop-up restaurants, and farm-to-table dinners dotting the landscape from coast to coast, and the opportunities to impress through creative marketing, alluring merchandising, and menu innovation with catered events have never been greater.

In this Second Edition of Catering: A Guide to Managing a Successful Business Operation by Chef Bruce Mattel and The Culinary Institute of America, all the information that caterers and would-be caterers need to set up and run a successful catering business of any kind is provided.

From launching the business, establishing pricing, setting up a kitchen, staffing, and marketing to planning events, organizing service, preparing food, managing the dining room and beverages, and developing menus, Catering, Second Edition provides detailed guidance on every aspect of the catering business, showing operators how to troubleshoot and creatively solve problems. This book is an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to succeed in this rapidly expanding segment of the foodservice industry.

This Second Edition is thoroughly revised and updated to include information on catering for dietary restrictions and food allergies, contemporary techniques such as sous-vide technology, and plating and presentation. A new chapter of practical mainstream and on-trend recipes has been added, in addition to sample menus for a variety of catered events from brunches to black-tie affairs. Meanwhile, this Second Edition and a companion website include essential business forms and caterer's checklists, making planning of events even easier.

Catering, Second Edition is an effective training tool for caterers and would-be caterers, showing how to plan and execute profitable and creative on- and off-premise catering operations.

From launching the business, establishing pricing, setting up a kitchen, staffing, and marketing to planning events, organizing service, preparing food, managing the dining room and beverages, and developing menus, Catering: A Guide to Managing a Successful Business Operation, Second Edition, provides detailed guidance on every aspect of the catering business. This Second Edition is thoroughly revised and updated to include information on catering for dietary restrictions and food allergies, contemporary techniques such as sous-vide technology, and plating and presentation. Included is a new chapter of practical mainstream and on-trend recipes and sample menus for a variety of catered events from brunches to black-tie affairs