A caterer’s job is to prepare and serve food to the host and guests in a private party or formal occasion. The venue can be remote, private house, catering hall, banquet hall or outdoors. The most recognized types of catering services are mobile catering whence food is served directly from a vehicle as a van or a cart.
• Mobile catering serves mostly at outdoor events – games, concerts etc. Mobile caterers are very popular and usually do a brisk business where restaurants or canteens are absent. Some mobile caterers have permanent locations from where they operate on a Van or a moveable cart sufficient enough to prepare and serve food.
• Event catering can be lunch box offering in conferences, seminars but usually it is full scale catering service. This is full staff in waiting, dinner accessories as tables and chairs or buffet in a marriage hall or banquet hall. Full service catering is hence is a restaurant like replication with larger number of guests at a venue chosen by the host. The food may be prepared at the venue or transported from a kitchen elsewhere. When people bring a caterer into their references they mean these full service catering companies or service providers. There are many catering companies present in towns of size that provide these services.
• Ship catering service. This type of catering service is very popular on cruise ships which have catering hall on board the fun ships. This cruise catering service is very popular on short distance cruise which offer fine dining and on board party service. The catering halls on ship are much in demand. Reason for popularity as along with the party or wedding reception the guests enjoy ride on the sea and experience sightseeing to nearby locations.
• Specialty catering – since the type of celebrations or functions are innumerable there are caterers which serve to a limited kind of events. Some offer specialized food service as Vegan, Kosher and Halal. Specialized caterers are by no means limited service providers they are just catering to a niche.
