Catering plays an increasing role in modern society
This applies to all sectors of society, workers engaged in sheet metal forming, psychologists, teachers, actors and so on.
This is ensured primarily by changes in technologies of food processing, development of communications, means of delivery of products and raw materials, the intensification of many manufacturing processes.
According to the international papers, the term “catering” is characterized by different definitions, as “methods of preparing a large number of food without prior agreement with the consumer” or as any “type of meals, organized outside the home”.
Due to the rapid development of catering in recent years, some information in the service sector did not receive adequate attention and data about this group of objects is rather diverse, and sometimes contradictory.
However, catering is one of the major factors that give an integrated assessment of socio-economic levels of society.
Nutrition is a form of consumption. With the development of society, food is increasingly beginning to be socially organized, that is catering develops.
Catering is an activity associated with the production, processing, delivery and organization of food consumption and the provision of public services.
Socio-economic importance of catering is expressed in creating conditions for growth of productivity and improvement of the organization of labor by providing a full hot meal at the place of work and education of the population; to ensure the economy of social work and resources; to create prerequisites for the increase of free time for the members of society, especially women.
Catering can also be viewed as a sector which main purpose is to provide services to the public in the form of public catering in exchange for cash income.
The catering industry is characterized by commonality of logistics, trade, technological, organizational and economic structures.
The most common food services are restaurants, cafes, bars, canteens, snack bars.
They can work with raw materials or semi-finished products, be in the control system of structure of education or independent from any form of ownership.
Businesses of this type are undergone fairly specific and stringent requirements.
They concern the appearance of the enterprise, interior design and facilities for customers, the availability of pop and dance floors, banquet halls or cabinets, micro-climate, furniture, dinnerware and cutlery, table linens, menus, and the assortment of their own products and purchased goods, methods of servicing customers, clothing and footwear, music service.












