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A Competency Model For Catering And Event Professionals Using A Modified Delphi Technique, Donnell G. Bayot
A Competency Model For Catering And Event Professionals Using A Modified Delphi Technique, Donnell G. Bayot
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
As the market for face-to-face meetings and events has grown to one of the largest private sector industries, so has the market for catering, which is the largest budget line item for a meeting or event. Clients have become more demanding and at the same time more price-conscious. This has caused catering professionals and meeting and event planners' job responsibilities to change. Caterers and planners now have more crossover responsibilities and over more varied functional areas than ever before. In response, the National Association for Catering and Events (NACE), as the oldest and largest catering association in the world, formally …
An Examination Of Modernist Culinary Techniques And Equipment And Their Application In Catering Operations, Jill Mora
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The practice of culinary arts in reference to food production is slow to adopt change. This is especially true in a catering operation. The industry uses standard operating procedures that have been passed down from chef to chef through several generations. Most catering operations face the same challenges when producing large quantities of food in a very short time. Many times this is done with limited equipment and staff. In addition, the menus can vary from event to event so that preproduction of product for multiple functions may not be a viable option.
This paper does not look to redesign …