The document discusses different types of meals including breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner and tea. It provides details on common breakfast foods and styles from various regions including continental, American, English, European, North Indian and South Indian breakfast. Continental breakfasts often include items like croissants, bagels and coffee while American breakfast features eggs, meat and sides. English breakfast is described as eggs, bacon and sausages while North Indian breakfast includes breads like paratha stuffed with potatoes or vegetables along with chutneys. South Indian breakfast features idli, dosa, uttapam and vada served with sambhar and coconut chutney.

1. Types of meals

2. • Early morning tea
• Breakfast (English, American, Continental, Indian)
• Brunch
• Lunch
• Afternoon tea/ High tea
• Dinner
• Supper/Collation
• Elevenses/ Second breakfast

3. Early morning tea
• Tea tray • Hospitality tray in hotel
room

4. Continental breakfast

6. Continental breakfast
Orange juice, croissant,
coffee
• Juice, bagels, coffee

7. • Danish pastry • Bear claw

8. • Muffins • Toast

10. French breakfast
Tartine Café au lait, croissant, tartine

11. • For a continental breakfast consisting of hot croissant/
brioches or hot toast, butter, preserves and coffee or tea, the
cover
would be as follows:
i) Stands or underplates for coffee / tea pot and hot milk /
hot water jug or pouches of tea or instant coffee.
ii) Side plate with side knife
iii) Sugar cubes basin and tongs or individual sugar and
creamer packets in a bowl
iv) Tea or breakfast cup and saucer and a teaspoon
v) If the beverage is tea, then the following additional items
will be needed: slop basin and tea strainer.
vi) Napkin
vii) Ashtray (depending on smoking policy of the
establishment)

12. • The majority of the items listed above for the two types of
breakfast are often placed on the table as part of the
mise-en-place,
before the customer is seated. A number of items are then
placed on
the table after the customer is seated and makes his
choice of
breakfast known. These include:
• butter dish with butter and alternatives
• preserve dish with preserves
• jug of cold milk
• toast rack with toast and / or bread basket with hot rolls
• tea pot / coffee pot / hot or cold milk / hot water jug.

13. • Continental breakfasts may feature coffee and rolls,
toast and pastries such as croissant and Danish.
• In Europe breakfast may consists of slices of cheese
and cold meat, cereal, fruit and drinks
like coffee, tea or fruit juices. For
example, French breakfast is usually a light meal
composed of just roll or pastry, butter and jam. Much
to the contrary, German breakfast is a full meal with
dark bread, various kinds of cheese and meat, and
often fried or boiled eggs, thus tending towards the
English breakfast.

14. European breakfast

15. American breakfast
• Juice/ fresh or stewed fruit
• Breakfast cereal with milk & sugar
• Eggs to order with bacon/ham/sausages and hash
brown potatoes
• Pancakes/waffles with maple syrup and butter
• Toast/breakfast rolls with butter & preserves
• Coffee
• Contemporary choices include muesli, granola,
yoghurt, eggs Benedict, baked beans on toast,
toaster pastry

18. Proprietary breakfast cereal

20. Breakfast cereal
Pancakes with butter and maple
syrup

21. Omelet and toast
Scrambled eggs, crispy bacon
and toast

22. Poached eggs on toast
Eggs benedict- poached eggs, ham,
hollandaise sauce on english muffin

23. Waffles with butter and syrup French toast

24. English breakfast
• A typical English breakfast
like the American
breakfast consists of eggs,
bacon, sausages, fried
bread, mushrooms and
baked beans all washed
down with a cup of tea or
coffee. Now-a-days,
however, a typical English
breakfast is more likely to
be a bowl of cereals,
a slice of toast, orange
juice and a cup of coffee.

25. English breakfast
• Juice/Compote or stewed fruit/Fresh fruit-orange,
grapefruit, apple, pear, papaya,
berries, fruit yoghurt
• Oatmeal porridge or cereal
• Traditional fish based fare-kippers, kedgeree
• Eggs to order with breakfast meats and sides
• Toast/rolls/pastry with marmalade and jam
• Tea/coffee

27. Traditional English breakfast fare
Boiled egg with soldiers Devilled kidneys

28. Traditional English breakfast fare
Kedgeree Grilled kipper and toast

29. Scotland England
Tattie scone Bubble and Squeak

30. UK /Australia/ New Zealand
Marmite on toast Marmite/Vegemite

31. English Popular global
Lemon curd Nutella

32. North Indian breakfast
• Plain/ stuffed-aloo, gobi, mooli, paneer,
kheema paratha
• Poori/Bhature with aloo/chhole/halwa
• Egg bhurji/Akoori
• Kheema/paya with paratha/naan
• Moong dal chilla, Besan ka puda
• Kachori, samosa
• Poha, jalebi

33. North Indian breakfast
• Stuffed paratha with
dahi and achar
• Poori chhole/subzi

34. South Indian breakfast
• Idli/dosa/utthapam/medu wada with coconut
chutney and sambhar
• Upma, Kesari
• Hoppers (appam) with stew
• Puttu kadala
• Idiappam( string hoppers)
• Venn pongal
• Malabar porotta with curry

35. Idli, dosa, utthapam, medu vada,
upma

36. Kerala specialities
Appam with ishtew Idiappam(string hoppers)

37. Venn Pongal(Tamil nadu) Kesari (Tamil Nadu)

38. Puttu & kadala curry Malabari porotta with curry

39. Brunch