Commercial catering provides food and beverage services with the primary goal of earning profits. There are two types of commercial catering: general market catering which serves the public equally, and restricted market catering which only serves specified groups like members or employees. General market catering includes establishments like hotels, restaurants, bars, and pubs while restricted market catering includes transport, clubs, institutional, and industrial catering. The document provides examples of different types of establishments under each category of commercial catering.

1. COMMERCIAL
CATERING
Presented By :- Vikas Gupta
Roll No. :- 9209
Programme :- MHMCT Ist Sem.

2. Commercial catering is defined as catering
services provided just to earn profits, or in
other words in this type of catering, services
provided by outlets just to maximise profit.
Such outlets exist not only in private sector
but also in public sector.
Types of Commercial Catering
 General Market
 Restricted Market

3. General Market Catering
In this category, those establishments are
included which provide food & beverage services to
general public equally for earning profit as main
aim.
Restricted Market Catering
In this category, those establishments are
included which don’t provide food & beverage
services to general public but, only to specified
group of people (they may be its members, staff, etc).

4. General Market
 Hotels
 Restaurant
 Bar
 Pub
 Bistro
 Discotheques
 Take away & many
more…
Restricted Market
 Transport Catering
o Airways
o Roadways
o Railways
 Clubs
 Institutional Catering
 Industrial Catering

5.  An Establishment providing Food & Beverage
services along with Accomodation facility and other
services.
 Earlier F&B services were not provided by Hotels to
their clients, but after sometime, this practice
changed & Hotels started providing every type of
service to their clients including F&B services.
 Depending upon facilities provided the category of
the hotels vary from 2 star to 5 star.
General Market Catering

6.  A Restaurant is an establishment that serves the
customers with prepared food & beverages, to order,
to be consumed on the premises.
 The term covers multiplicity of venues & a diversity
of Styles of cuisine.
 Bar is a retail establishment that serves alcoholic
beverages, such as beer, wines, rum, etc. & other
beverages such as Soft drinks, mineral water & often
sell snack foods such as peanuts for consumption on
premises.

7.  An establishment especially for sale of beer & other
drinks and sometimes also food, to be consumed on
the premises.
 An Unsophisicated establishment for common
person. These are defined mostly by the food they
serve, generally French home-style cooking & slow
cooked foods.

8. • This provide facilities to large gathering people to
dance along with a music played by DJ.
• A small bar is attached to a discotheque very limited
sitting arrangement is provided.
 Some discotheque may give entry only to couple.
 An outlets/shop that sells cooked foods but dosen’t
provides place or space to consume that.
 People take the food from these outlets and eat some
other else.

9. Restricted Market Catering
 Transport catering Includes:
1. Road
2. Airline
3. Railway
4. Sea or Cruise
In this, F&B Services are offered to them who avail the
transport services of either roadways, Airlines, Railways &
seaways.
 Clubs as a sector of the hotel and catering industry are establi
shments offering food and drink and at
times accommodation to members and bonafide guests.

10.  Institutions provide this type of catering services to
their students, Staff And Faculities only.
 To avail F&B Services one must be either student,
Staff or Faculity in institute.
 This type of catering services are provided by
industries to staffs and working personnels.
 For availing F&b Services one must be employee of
that company or industry.

11. • All Information and content taken from
following Sources :-
– FOOD & BEVERAGE SERVICE BOOK By R.
Singaravelavan
– Wikipedia www.en.wikipedia.org