Zusammenfassung der Ressource
WJEC Catering
- Types of Service
- Waited Service
- When waiters take orders and deliver food.
- Used in restaurants, cafes and hotels.
- Expensive to employ all the waiting staff
- Specialised equipment needed e.g. trolleys
- Can serve lots of people quickly
- Provides personal service
- Customers have a wide choice
- Buffet Service
- Customer pays a fixed price and takes food from a buffet table
- Waiters can be employed to serve drinks and refill dishes
- Needs lots of space
- Portion sizes are
difficult-may set out too
much of one and vice versa
- Needs few staff
- Food can be hot and cold
- Wide choice
- Service staff
- Restaurant manager
- In charge of the area where customers sit (front of house)
- Responsible for the standard of service, taking bookings, hiring service staff and health and safety.
- Often work with the head chef, deciding best way to serve dishes, etc
- Head waiter
- Responsible for greeting customers and seating them
- Responsible for organising and training waiting staff
- Sometimes handle customer complaints
- Wine waiter
- Helps the customer choose the wine they would like
- Responsible for serving wine and other drinks
- Should know which wines are suited to which dish
- Responsible for choosing and buying wines for the restaurant
- Waiting staff
- Set tables, take orders, serve food
- Top up drinks, prepare bill, clear tables
- Casual Catering staff
- Employed for busy functions or at busy periods of the year
- Can be available at short notice
- Don't work fixed number of hours-only when needed
- Only paid for the hours they
work-no sick pay or holidays
- Nutrition
- Proteins
- Grow and repair cells
- Made of amino acids
- Some amino acids are essential for our bodies
- Proteins high in essential amino acids are HBV (High Biological Value) proteins.
- In meat, egg, fish, milk, cheese, soya beans
- Proteins low in essential amino acids are called LBV (Low Biological Value) Proteins
- In nuts, cereals and pulses
- Carbohydrates
- Provides energy
- Two types
- Complex Carbs give long lasting energy
- In bread , pasta, cereals
- Simple Carbs make blood sugar increase quickly giving short burst of energy
- In 'sugary' foods: cakes, jams, sweets
- Fats
- Provide energy
- Form an insulating layer under the skin to keep you warm
- Protects organs such as kidneys
- Two types
- Saturated-worse for the body
- In Meat, butter, cheese
- Unsaturated-better for the body
- In Seeds, fish, vegetable oils
- Vitamins
- A
- Good vision, especially in the dark
- In fish, eggs, butter, oranges, dark green veg
- B
- Releasing energy from carbs
- Cereals, meat, fish
- C
- Fighting disease and helping the body absorb iron
- Oranges, peppers, tomatoes, green veg, potatoes
- D
- W/ calcium helps the body make strong bones and teeth
- Eggs, oily fish
- Minerals
- Fibre + water