What is the difference between Food and Beverage and Food production? Which one offers wider career scope?

Food Production is a more confined field and related to cooking and culinary job. Chefs, food and beverage managers, food scientist and food inspectors are some of the job roles available. Food and Beverage are wider and includes job roles not only inside the kitchen based but also outside the restaurants and kitchens. Important skills in Food Production-a keen sense of taste and smell, passion for food, instinct/ intuition for mixing flavors, perfectionist, urge to innovate/ experiment, grit, determination, willingness to work for long hours, good memory (to remember different recipes), good organizational skills and innovativeness. Skillset for food and beverage manager-leadership skills. Good communication skills, flexibility, adaptability, problem-solving nature, pro-activeness, inventory management, conflict resolution, ability to work under pressure, ability to multi-task and good organizational skills.

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Food and beverage service is something related to service of food and drinks by the name it defines it. And, food production is like preparation of food with a better of presenting it for the service. But, when it comes to scope of career food production has a wide range of scope in all around the world.

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Food and Beverage Service can be called the backbone of the hospitality industry. It also is at the core of several other sectors such as catering and food production. It can be part of a large hotel or tourism business and it can also be run as an independent business.

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Food and Beverage and Food production both are integral departments of the hotel function. The difference lies in the type of services and the nature of the work that would be required to be done by the people involved. Although, one important fact is that they both deal with an important aspect food. The food and beverage department involves the service and the presentation of food to the guest. The preparation of the beverage section at the bar, mocktail/cocktail areas, open buffet all lie under the food and beverage department. The food production departments is a more technical role player where the work is all related to the kitchen and the actual preparation of the food. Food preparation is a department that requires a lot of skill, patience and experience. The profiles such as chef, commis etc. all are the profiles involved in the kitchen. Both departments offer equal opportunity the difference will lie in the interest that one has and the type of work that you would want to take forward in your career.

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Food Production is a more confined field and related to cooking and culinary job. Chefs, food and beverage managers, food scientist and food inspectors are some of the job roles available. Food and Beverage are wider and includes job roles not only inside the kitchen based but also outside the restaurants and kitchens. Important skills in Food Production-a keen sense of taste and smell, passion for food, instinct/ intuition for mixing flavors, perfectionist, urge to innovate/ experiment, grit, determination, willingness to work for long hours, good memory (to remember different recipes), good organizational skills and innovativeness. Skillset for food and beverage manager-leadership skills. Good communication skills, flexibility, adaptability, problem-solving nature, pro-activeness, inventory management, conflict resolution, ability to work under pressure, ability to multi-task and good organizational skills.

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Basically, food and beverage service and food production are likely to be same with core work, but differs within the operation part. Food and beverage service is something related to service of food and drinks by the name it defines it. And, food production is like preparation of food with a better of presenting it for the service. For a better profit both these main departments has to work with equal effort. But, when it comes to scope of career food production has a wide range of scope in all around the world. Even same with food and beverage service with a rapid growth of many more interesting themed restaurants and bars all across the world. So, aspect of both is same, but everything depends on your own interest in work and dedication towards your job.

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Hi, Food and beverage services and food production are two different departments of the hotel which work hand in hand, both the departments are food handlers. Food Production is the department where chefs do all the pre-preparation of the food and cook the food. Once the food is cooked then it is served to guests by food and beverage department. Food Production teams take care of different things compared to food and beverage teams. Food Production takes care of ordering of raw materials for cooking, receiving of raw materials, making menus and menus trial, presentation of food, costing of the menu, mise-en-place of the food. On the other hand, major tasks which are done by food and beverage service teams are: they meet, greet and seat guests on the table and start service by pouring water, presenting menus, taking orders or food and beverages and serving the dishes and clearing once the food is done.

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Food and beverage service (f&b service) and food and beverage production (f&b production) both are the food handlers of the hotel. Food and beverage production: In this, all the kitchen chefs who are responsible to cook it with the responsibility, hygiene and according to the recipe are included. Food and beverage service: They are the server of food and beverage to the guest. Whatever guests demand they take the order and chef prepares it. They serve it to the guest. After a guest is done with his/her meal, they do the clearance. Like this, they both work as a team for a hotel. Food and beverage are similar in both the departments because they are the only departments who handle the food in a hotel. Career scope in both the departments is good, but according to me if you want to grow in any department you need to work with passion and full interest, it depends on you if you like to cook food then go into the production department and if you like to take care of the guests and like to interact with them or like to serve, you can join the services department.

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Hi, Food Production is related to preparing food for guests and Food and Beverage service is related to serving food to the guests. Successful restaurant operations requires coordination between both food & Beverage service and Food Production departments but both the departments differ widely in career prospects If you join Food Production department you can become a Chef and can reach the highest position I.e. Executive Chef and if you join Food and Beverage department you can become a restaurant manager and reach Food and Beverage director level or even the General Manager. It depends upon your area of interest that which department you want to join. If you are solely interested in cooking food you should choose Food Production as you can cook food there, experiment and learn new things and, if you are interested in administrative/ managerial work you can choose Food and beverage and can get an opportunity to manage a 5 star restaurant All the best.

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