Catering Certificate Final Exam

___________ means you serve food at the same place as you cooked it, and usually means cooking and serving food in a restaurant, café, pub, or hotel.

____________ means once you’ve cooked the food, you take it to someone else’s premises, such as a client’s home or a church hall

Off-site catering is preferable for which of the following reasons?

Where in your home would be the ideal place to have your office?

Which of the following tools is essential to caterers?

A _________ isn’t essential, but it says something about your style and gives your letterhead added credibility.

_____________ is the main magazine for caterers and you can buy it in bigger newsagents, and it is stocked in bigger libraries.

Bigger parties tend to be __________, with people collecting their own food and eating standing up.

____________ parties include ‘leaving do’s’, retirements, and Christmas parties.

___________ delivery usually includes your driving around industrial estates, honking the horn to alert workers that they can buy lunch from you.

A product you enjoy making, and which you can do with your eyes closed is a good way to get started and can be considered what?

There will always be a demand for cakes, ______________, but within those two broad categories are many variants.

This type of food includes carob bars or sesame bars, or oat bars such as flapjacks.

For parties of up to ________ people, you can buy your food from the local supermarket.

You need to be able to buy trays of vegetables, and for this you need a small local ______________.

What is one way a lot of people judge food?

Four weeks before the event, you should know which ______________ are to be used, and you or your client will need to have signed a contract with them.

Rent ________ glasses per guest.

You can buy disposable metallic ____________ from the cash and carry, and with a bit of care, you can re-use them several times.

When covering tables with material, use ________ different colours or textures to add a feeling of luxury.

Sit-down food can be in the format of ___________, in which the waiter serves each guest in turn from a dish and the guest starts with an empty plate.

Another format of sit-down food is ____________, in which the food is put on the table and guests serve themselves.

A formal place setting has ________ glasses.

A ____________ is a full-bodied glass with a short stem.

What are the first, and best, kind of clients?

____________ is expensive, and much of it is wasted

Don’t undertake an event that is too large for you; if you’re working from home, you would find it hard to cook a sit-down meal for more than __________ people

The ___________ is crucial to your operation and are the visible fact of your organization.

The __________ does the shopping, collecting, prepping, bagging, delivering, and inventory checking.

When you start, it can be a good idea to use ____________ because they’ll be more ready to help you out.

Unless you have the ability to manage your finances, you’ll need a/an ____________.

As a caterer, the most important thing is _________.

___________ is the money you get from running parties and other events.

Overhead or indirect costs include which of the following?

_________ are what’s left from your revenue when you have subtracted your direct costs and overhead.

The main cost is food, and this cost is normally _________ of what you bill your customer.

A __________ means that your personal liability is strictly limited.

You should have _____________ to protect yourself against the many risks that a caterer encounters.

Using ___________ people is advantageous because you don’t have to pay employers’ taxes or pensions, and they have fewer rights at work.

There will come a time when you have too much work. It’s unbelievable but true! When this happens, what should you do?