Caterers services in Mumbai is a burgeoning business

Aug 27
10:36

2012

Jenny Jonson

Jenny Jonson

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Caterers services in Mumbai, is a flourishing business because it is closely linked to parties, festival dinners and lunches, weddings and other social functions.

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Caterers services in Mumbai,Caterers services in Mumbai is a burgeoning business  Articles is a flourishing business because it is closely linked to parties, festival dinners and lunches, weddings and other social functions. Apart from social functions, these services are also extended to corporate needs. Employers can organise for healthy food to be served to their employees. Creating various delicacies from India’s vast culinary palate, these services can cater to any kind of tastes. A corporate catering service has to be just as vigilant about quality of food served as those who cater to parties and social events.

Caterers can cater to any kind of crowd – from small kitty parties to lavish wedding parties. These services are called in for kitty parties – who usually want ‘chaat’ counters and finger food, to birthday parties – who want starters, main course, desert and juices or for lavish wedding parties – who want various cuisines ranging for Italian to Mexican to Chinese besides various courses of meals. Thus catering services are customisable and have a large scale of operations in Mumbai especially which is the melting pot of cultures – there is someone to eat every kind of food.

One of the more popular among the food served by catering services is Indian vegetarian food. There are many takers for vegetarian food – since it is considered healthier and more hygienic. Indians, by default prefer home cooked food, but when they have no choice while outside their homes they prefer to eat vegetarian food. This is for not only hygienic reasons – they do not have to eat meat which might not be cleaned in a hygienic manner – but also because it is healthier, much easier to digest.

For caterers, Indian vegetarian food is cheaper to prepare in larger quantities rather than non vegetarian food. Since vegetarian food is consumed in larger quantities, most lavish parties and social events prefer serving that to their guests – making the food bill much more cost effective. There could be several variations in the food served even among vegetarian food, but the cost of the whole meal per plate is much cheaper than when you include a non vegetarian item in the menu.

The latest trend among caterers services is to move away from traditional food, since most Indian palates are open to experimenting with international cuisines. So an Italian, Mexican or Chinese counter is quite frequently seen at weddings and social events. People are also not averse to trying these out at meals served by caterers at their workplace.

When cooked in larger quantities, these cuisines – Italian, Mexican or Chinese, work just fine since there are no delicate spices involved. So even if the catering service misses out on some non essential but important ingredient – say in a Chinese cuisine, the caterer adds salt instead of Ajinomoto – it would still be palatable. Unlike Indian traditional food, a tuned Indian palate can immediately pick up something missing among the ingredients.  This works fine even for the caterers since it is far simpler to whip a non-Indian dish in a larger quantity than an Indian dish. As is the belief of most Indians eating out, they choose to believe that it is best to eat traditional Indian food when cooked in smaller quantities and when cooked at home. Experimentation with food should be left to when you are eating out.