A Report On The Flight Catering Industry

This discussion is on a food production company which is divided into two groups: Those that prepare and serve food and those that produce and distribute food, equipment, and services needed by food providers. The most common example of the first group food staffs are Restaurants employ who manages 60% of the work to be done within company. The former includes staffs, hosts, and busboys. The latter includes chefs, cooks, managers, and dishwashers. Fast food restaurants limit their employ to food preparation people, managers, and cashiers. The trend of food trucks adds a mobile

In relation to hospitality and catering, the non-commercial or “public” sector exists in the form of hospitals and institutes of education. Organisations in the commercial sector are privately owned and exist solely to find a niche to exploit to make money. While money-making is still a factor in the private sector, it is not the main goal. With the primary goal, demographic and expectations of the target audience, along with location and budget, all taken into account, different areas of the hospitality and catering industry begin to differ widely.

Industry: Demographic factors are favorable to the restaurant industry. Approximately 52% of the 1993 population in the area was 60 years of age or over. This was considered the restaurant’s main target market. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the number of people taking up permanent residence in the valley increased dramatically for various reasons. The climate was attractive for growing population of seniors. Land prices, housing, taxes, and utilities were affordable. With the average cost of an acre of industrial land in the Penticton area at $45000 in 1991, businesses were attracted to the area. Between 1984 and 1991, manufacturing

Kudler Fine Foods is a gourmet food store which also offers in store parties in order to introduce customers to their products and also teach customers how to prepare their specialty foods. They have expanded to three stores and are continuing to see growth opportunities in their industry. Kudler Fine Foods has planned on contracting with local growers to obtain their produce and now they want to add a catering service. Before they can do so, they must run the possibility fully through a marketing standpoint in order to assure the success of this project. This study will comprise of the opportunities Kudler Fine Food has in its marketing mix that will help them operate a successful catering business.

The last external innovation of Kudler Fine Foods from other organizations is catering the organization provides (Apollo Group, Inc., 2011). The catering aspect has not been fully constructed into the business organizational structure, so their approach will stand out from other competitors. Their goal is to provide a link to customers on their website that will allow them to view and order specifics requirements for the event needed to be catered. The website will provide every aspect of what meals, desserts, amount needed, specific arrangements or design the customer desires for the event. With other competitors they require customers to come into the store location to make arrangements, whereas Kudler Fine Foods is providing options for the busy individual to make arrangements via Internet.

This report will give an overview on the how the project is coming along and explain in detail the methods used. Using the data collected will be able to improve the waiting time that the customers have to wait and receive their meals. The report focus on the data collected from the observation to be able to find the distribution.

Commissary foodservice systems are used in many types of foodservice operations. The airline industry offers a good example of this type of system. This is the most suitable system in the airline industry since air travel is long distance travel and passengers require to eat and drink in the course of their journey. It inappropriate to prepare food in a aeroplane and therefore food should be prepared, pre-plated, sealed, chilled or frozen at a central production facility or near the airport’s premises. When airplane is airborne food is assembled and distributed to the passengers by the stewards. Most airlines apply this system including the British airlines that is renowned for its top class food service onboard. It uses the commissary foodservice system to cater for its passengers and this ensures minimal interruptions and application of safety measures during travels.

People all around the world are busy. Busy with work, school and other extra activities. No one ever has time to cook, so families are always going out to eat at a restaurant. This essay will include comparison between eating at home and eating at a restaurant in terms of the price, cleanliness, taste and service.

Home Chef is a well-performing meal kit company with dramatic growth rate. The company, has successfully built a healthy brand image by offering nutritious menus in a sustainable platform. However, in its ambitious effort to

Airlines use a formula of combining their yield and inventory costs to determine ticket prices. While it is imperative to focus on the idea of being profitable, the focus is to maximize the cost of the flight revenue. One huge factor that encourages an increase in the cost of tickets relates to a customer ordering a ticket close to the departing date, define this as a risk factor because they need to make up for all unsold seats. A high percentage of the revenue is dedicated to overhead costs such as fuel and labor. When a ticket price is higher with one airline than the other, the customer interprets this as being an excessive cost. The demand is greatly affected by the external market

Customers is an important justification of a company’s success. Considering the interest of customers and portraying a good image to its customers, it had come out with different variety of meals. For example, the KFC offers kid’s meal which gives children free

One of the world’s most competitive and prominent industries is the airlines industry. It generates huge amounts of income as well as employment each year. Some of the common names in US air travel service providers are Alaska, Northwest, Southwest, US airways, American etc.

In a catering firm, the work place design and risk assessment is carried out by catering manager. Example; if a catering unit employs, 10 permanent staff and, an young person of 16 years only to work on weekends, then an employment permit need to be obtained from the local authority for employing the 16 year old person. Secondly, the business hours of the firm between 9.00 am and 10.00pm, and need to make sure it opens and close at the prescribed time. Finally, have to set up all the health and safety signs, equipments are supplied and make sure all the employees are following the rules.

Catering –Turkish airlines friendly cabin crew welcomes passengers on board with a choice of meals and drinks. Flights for morning, they serve a hot breakfast menu accompanied by butter, jam a variety of cheese and olives, plus fruit salad or yoghurt (alternatively) and a hot breakfast place. Flights for afternoon and evening they served a cold meal menu accompanied by a range of delicatessens products. Flight for night they provide a full hot meal services and range of delicious desserts that are selected. From Turkish and international kitchens are served during lunch and dinner hours.

The paper presents an analysis of the different factors influencing the restaurant industry and how these factors increase or decrease the demand for such services. The hypothesis that will be examined is that the performance of restaurants is mostly based on the type of food chosen by customers when they decide to go out for dinner, lunch, breakfast, or simply for a snack. What type of food refers mainly the nationality or concept of the food, (traditional American, Italian, Indian, Latin, or from any other type of culture). This factor is important because when customers go out to for dinner; they decide what to eat before deciding where to eat. That is why this factor is considerably important according to the hypothesis.