2. Restaurants- the most familiar segment of
the foodservice industry
◦ Full-service restaurants
Employ servers to take the customer’s order and bring
the meals out
Can span a range of fine dining to casual
Fine dining has elegantly prepared food, linen napkins
and tablecloths, fine china, highly trained wait staff
Fine dining has the highest quality of food
Popular with special occasions, most expensive
Casual dining offers simple foods in less formal
surroundings, serve a wide variety of
cuisines, moderate menu prices
3. Restaurants continued
◦ Quick-Service restaurants
Quick service is also known as Fast Food
Offers speed, convenience, reasonable prices
Customers typically place orders at counter and serve
themselves
Before the 1950’s the quick-service industry was very
small, it now accounts for 38% of all dollars spent on
dining out
Offer limited menus, efficiency is the key to success
McDonald’s, Subway, KFC
4. Hotels
◦ Travelers need lodging as well as food to eat
◦ Small motels offer vending machines, continental
breakfasts
◦ Larger hotels offer a wide variety of dining options
Restaurants, room service, banquet facilities and
ballrooms for catering
5. Clubs-
◦ Clubs often provide their members with activities as
well as food.
◦ Country clubs offer golfing, tennis, etc plus fine
cuisine and excellent service for their member’s
membership fees
6. Catering- provides food and service for
groups, often at another facility that normally
does not serve foods
◦ Catering at those locations is called off-premise
catering
◦ Chefs of catering companies must be extremely
organized
◦ Demand for catering has risen in recent years
Weddings, anniversaries, reunions, proms, etc.
7. Institutional Foodservice- supplies meals for
businesses and organizations
Employers want to provide food to eat so
employees do not have to leave the premises
◦ Corporations
(google), schools, universities, hospitals, stadiums,
prisons, travel, military, nursing homes
8. Sole Proprietorship-
◦ a business in which one person owns and often
operates the business. Responsibilities are that of
the owner only
Partnerships-
◦ a business in which ownership is shared by two or
more people. Responsibilities are often
divided, partnerships end when one or more people
leave the business
Corporations-
◦ most businesses, made of many investors.
Ownership is divided by the investors, has rights
and responsibilities as a real person
9. An entrepreneur is someone who organizes a
business and assumes the risk for it
◦ Chef-entrepreneurs are chefs who own their own
restaurants
