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If you are between 18 and 20 years of age, have successfully completed or are about to complete Class XII, you may join the Systematic Training and Education Programme (STEP) in one of the hotels of The Oberoi Group. STEP is an opportunity for students to participate in a three-year programme that offers practical training at a hotel of The Oberoi Group. You will be trained in the four core operational departments of a hotel: Front Office, Housekeeping, Food and Beverage Service and Kitchen. On successful completion of the programme you will be awarded a Bachelor of Tourism Studies (BTS) degree from IGNOU. You will also receive a Certificate of Proficiency from The Oberoi Group for the training you will undergo during the three-year STEP programme. The Oberoi Group may offer you a job as an Operations Assistant at any of their hotels. This career opportunity is subject to your performance during the programme and availability of a suitable vacancy. Alternately you may seek entry into our two-year post graduate management training programme at The Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development.

Hi Garvit,
Commercial catering means prepared cooking dishes easily provided by any professional service, to make easy arrangement for consumer. This system frequently better works for marriage ceremony or other gathering on reasonable rate, supply and provision of fast food and related cooking dishes are made sure by commercial catering service.
Prior to now this system was worked only some places but now it is common everywhere. Commercial Catering system proved very useful for consumer to avoid of many problems. It save time, save energy but this system proved costly and non-affordable for some people due to demand charges on commercial catering service accord.
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Hi Garvit,
On premise catering happens when your kitchen is within the venue where an event is held. The food is prepared on site and served there as well.
Off premise catering involves a kitchen at another location. The prep work is all done at the kitchen and is transported and completed at the venue or is completely cooked at the kitchen, plated, covered and transferred via company trucks.
Once there, the food is served or set up. Think anything from Subway delivering foot longs to a corporate lunch to an expensive caterer bringing your food to your wedding for offsite.
Usually event halls and other venues where banquets and weddings are often held have offsite catering. Restaurants, country clubs, etc. that routinely serve food have onsite catering.
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Hi Dheeraj,
It is easy to understand why people think that starting your own catering business is easy. There seems to be minimal effort involved in it, especially if you are not closely familiar with those who are in the catering business
1. Not everyone who can cook can become successful in the business. You need to be familiar with as many recipes as possible, and you need to be an expert in making as many of those dishes as you can.
2. You need to know where to get your supplies from. You see, in a catering business, you need to buy materials in bulk.
3. Before you actually invest your life's savings into this business, you need to establish a possible market first. Build an adequate network.
4. If you have plans for staying in the catering business for a long time, you have to think of a way to make a lasting impression on every occasion you cater to.
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Hi Kareena,
The word 'chef' is the short form of the French 'chef de cuisine', meaning 'chief of the kitchen'. And as the chief, he has many people working under him including several cooks. Usually in our homes, a 'cook' toils on his/her own! Perhaps much more important, a chef gets paid a lot more than a cook. Chefs can, and often are, called "cooks". The one distinguishing factor is that a chef has earned a degree from a culinary arts school. Without that degree, one cannot earn the title "chef". Yes, they basically perform the same job, but typically a chef is more specialized and has a wider knowledge base of all activities involving the kitchen, food service and purchasing.
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Hi Kareena,
The chocolate business has excellent scope as not only the hotel industry has this as an integral part of the Kitchen under bakery & confectionery,but also it offers scope for entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship has boomed as a lot of people are showing interest in the making of chocolates at home, with out the synthetic additives making it more healthy and appealing.Therefore the production cos has lowered, demand increased and profit stepped.
Please refer to the link for institutes:
https://www.shiksha.com/search/?q=chocolate&qer=chocolate|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0&sa=^0^0^0^0^0&ts=105459&rf=searchwidget
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HI Kareena,
An actual 'chef de cuisine' is the number one in a restaurant kitchen. That is the most prestigious job in the kitchen, as well as the one with the highest pay.
It's a job that usually requires many years of experience as a commis, demi-chef de partie, chef de partie and finally sous-chef.
In some larger higher end restaurants, one chef de partie is 'special': the chef pâtissier. In these joints, the patisserie is very much independent from the rest of the kitchen, and the chef pâtissier runs that. In these cases, he'll be 'equal' in rank to the chef de cuisine, at least as far as outside representation is concerned. The pay will also be comparable.
So depending on your interest & organizational setup you can strive harder to achieve either of the two.
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