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Running A Catering Business by nasstil2(m): 10:40pm On Sep 25, 2012
Imagine running your own business where you are the boss and the caterer. You will be able to practice your love to cook. Cooking is living.

The catering business has been in the business industry for quite a while now. When you run a catering business, you should have knowledge on how to cook.

About Catering Business

Actually, if you want to be hands on owner, you should be a good cook. The reputation of your catering business lies in your good taste in cooking. Your clients will be grading your performance through the taste of the food you prepared for them. Some might love your food, some might like it, and some might not even taste it. People have different type of taste when it comes to food. When you run a business like catering, you should take into consideration the kind of food the client would like to have in his event. Remember that there are clients who would demand their own menu. You should be flexible with dealing with the food needs of your client. You may suggest other food to them but remember not to insist your choice. The choice of the clients should be your priority.

You should also tell the caterer what kind of food classification are you good and that should be a highlight in your business. These clients should know what kind of food you are good at. Usually you will be catering food to different occasions like birthdays, weddings, funerals, seminars, conventions, meetings and other huge gatherings that would take a great number of foods to accommodate the guests in those mentioned gatherings.

In dealing with these gatherings, you should make it clear to the client of what will be the coverage of your catering services to them. It could be limited to just cooking the food only, or you might just be hired also to provide the waiters and the utensils needed for eating. These things are usually covered by the caterer but some clients would rather hire other waiter and utensil provider that best suits the theme of their gathering. But those things are rare. Most of the time you cover everything from the cooking, preparing the food presentation and serving, to the tables and chairs to the plates and eating utensils needed.

There is a tremendous demand for caterers everywhere. Anywhere you can find a potential client. From small offices to huge companies, from schools to universities to the public and private sectors who loves to put up a gathering. Those are the potential bracket of clients you will be dealing with. These people or groups will give a good compensation especially if you give them a good deal and you provide them with everything they need to feed their guests. To make all these things happen, you should have a complete set of cooking tools and equipment, you should have a group of ingredient provider that has a low cost deal. Remember that you will base your price according to the price of your resources.
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Re: Running A Catering Business by localnews: 2:42am On Oct 06, 2012
time management, creativity, people skills and the ability to work under pressure are qualities you must have if you want to be successful in the catering business in Nigeria. http://makemoneynigeria.com/catering-business-nigeria-step-step-start/
Re: Running A Catering Business by HRHQueenPhil(f): 7:14am On May 08, 2023
Patphil Catering Services – Christmas parties, End of Year Party, launch, Company celebrations and promotional events.
Meticulous events big or small that need a menu that will be remembered, excellent service to impress and unparalleled efficiency in planning and coordination to ensure your event will happen the way you want it to.

Large Scale Off-Premise Events Catering – Company outings, retreat, and off location celebrations. Events that require consistency in food quality and guaranteed food safety. We have done events for as large as 2,500 and still exceeded our client’s expectations.
Catering for Seminars and Whole Day Activitie

- Training Seminars, Conventions, and Company meetings. For any event that needs attentive service and sumptuous food beyond the usual lunch or dinner, we offer competitively price full board packages that include breakfast, snacks, lunch and dinner.
Corporate Canteens - We offer a complete range of corporate canteens services, including breakfast, tea break and lunch. our services can be customized to suit your exact need.


• To provide highly nutritious and healthy meals
• To identify the needs of target markets
• To produce goods and services of excellent standards to meet the specific needs.


• our customer must get the best possible service at a reasonable price
• Individuals must be respected and customer care is paramount
• Excellent superior performance must be pursued
We are looking forward to your patronage and we assure you that we give satisfactory services.
Office Address: 7 canal avenue okota
Okota, Lagos,
Nigeria.

Phone NO: 08112658211
Thank you.

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