Overview

The concept of presenting a range of food items to customers in a dining room has been popular for hundreds of years. In fact, many believe that formal food service started in this way.

Although food service styles have diversified greatly over the years, buffets are still a popular method of presenting a wide range of foods.

Buffets can cater to both large and small numbers of guests with a variety of tastes and dietary requirements, quickly. Buffets are also adaptable to almost every type and style of food and any meal period.

Developing your skills in this area of cookery will increase your employment options both now and in the future. It will give you tremendous personal and creative satisfaction that results from everything coming together and the customers being completely satisfied.

In this unit you will learn how to:

• Plan the buffet
• Prepare, produce and present foods for buffets
• Prepare and produce desserts for buffets
• Store buffet items.