By Sarah Clark
Sarah.clark@careertrainingreview.com
Career Training Review Columnist
Do you love to entertain family and friends? Do you enjoy serving people and helping them have a good time? If you answered yes, you might be well suited to a career in catering.
Jobs in catering often get overshadowed by those in restaurants, hotels,and other food-service related organizations. Nevertheless, caterers represent a large and important part of the food business. After all they provide food and service to a variety of special events that many of us attend regularly, such as weddings, holiday parties, and corporate events.
Catering Jobs
What kind of job can you expect to find in catering? Many hotels employ catering managers, professionals who coordinate food services for banquets and meetings held at a hotel. Catering jobs are also available with catering companies, which specialize in providing prepared menus and wait staff for events held by individuals or companies. A caterer might also work for an event planning company or a convention center.
Training for Caterers
Caterers often have basic culinary training as well as the ability to carry out and delegate a variety of tasks simultaneously. You can begin developing such skills during a two-year restaurant management program at a community college or private vocational school. If you wish to work for a catering company as a chef, you might pursue culinary training, focusing on the preparation of food rather than the management of food service establishments.
The Appeal of Small Business Ownership
The catering business is attractive to many because of the relative small financial investment required to start a catering operation. Many caterers establish their businesses out of their homes and, once established and profitable, move into a larger, dedicated work space.
Strong Job Growth
It may also be a good time to enter the catering business. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, catering jobs are expected to grow much faster than the average of all jobs in the years ahead. And who knows where a catering career might lead to - after all, Martha Stewart's rise to fame began with her catering business. Find out today if catering training will help lead you to a job with a promising future.
Sources:
The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
About the Author
Sarah Clark is a freelance writer who often writes on topics related to postsecondary education and career development.
Posted on : February 8,2006
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