FOOD SERVICE INDUSTRY

FOOD SERVICE INDUSTRYOrigins of the Food Service Industry- Types of food Service Industry TYPES OF FOOD SERVICE OPERATION

COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS

- is a group of different food service establishments and are usually located in commercial or public areas

- committed to earn profit through the sale of food and beverage

Restaurants- an early type of restaurant was the Coffeehouse which appeared in England in the mid 1600.

- The term restaurant, began in 1765 in Paris, France

- le restaurant divin the divine restorative, coming from the Latin word resturare, meaning to restore. This gave us the word restaurant, which is a place to restore health

- the first creditof the first restaurant in th US goes to Delmonicos, established in New York City in 1827

The first big chain restaurant operator in the US was Fred Harvey. By 1912, his company operated a dozen large hotels. 65 railway restaurants and 60 dining cars.

- John R. Thompson was another early chain operator. By 1926, he controlled 126 self service restaurants in the Midwest and the South.Fast Food Restaurant- Fast food restaurants standardized ready-to -eat food and service

- Fast food operations dates back to at least the 1920s and 1930s when A&W (the first fast food restaurant)Root Beer and Howard Johnson franchised of their unit.

- they concentrated mostly on Hamburgers. Some of the leading fast-food chains in the world are given below.

1. A&W RestaurantsHamburgers2. Arbys Sandwiches3. Baskin RobbinsIce-Creams4. Big BoyFamily Dining5. Buffalo Wild WingsGrills6. Burger King Corp.Hamburgers7. ChilisTex-Mex fast foods8. Dairy QueenIce creams9. Dennys Inc.Family dining10.Dominos PizzaPizza11. Dunkin DonutsDoughnuts12. Hardees IncHamburgers13. Kentucky Fried ChickenChicken14. Leann ChinChinese Fast Food15. Mc Donalds Corp. Hamburgers16. Pizza Hut Pizzas and Pastas17. Red Lobster Seafood18. Shoneys Restaurants Family Dining19. Subway Subs20. Taco Bell Mexican Fast Food21. Wendys International inc. Hamburgers

2. INSTITUTIONAL FOOD SERVICE

-this type of food service industry is made up of institutions owning or operating food service establishments within there institutional boundaries in school or hospitals

- Volume catering for institutions Industrial Catering- Robert Owen, may be called the father of Industrial Catering - one if his efforts was to provide an eating room for his worker and their families - in the U.S., cafeteria service was introduced in 1902 by Plymouth Cordage Company, Massachusetts- Cafeteria has a counter offering pre-cooked meals, which consumers choose according to their budget

- New forms of industrial catering emerged during and after World War II , today we have gourmet lunch rooms to vending machine, on site kitchen to outside catering contracts, food basket salespersons to franchised fast food operations within premises.

Schools- Food service in the American colleges started in 1800 and spread informally across the US university structure

- In 1935, the US Congress first made federal funds available to subsidize school food programs - the accent is on nutrition for growing children. Today fast-food franchises have entered university premises in a big way.

Many new innovations of Food Service have taken place . Todays hotels, restaurants and institutions cater to all the needs and wishes of the guest, worker or studentSchool Canteen

Hospitals- Hospitals were known in India and Egypt as early as 600 BC. In early Greece and Rome, the sick took refuge in temples that provided food for the patients and the poor.

- the first hospital was established in England in 1004 AD

- Diet for therapeutic purposes became important only in 1800s.- Florence Nightingale can be credited to be the first dietician and creator of the modern hospital

- Only when nutrition was recognized for the purpose of health recovery, so hospitals look at specialist to prepare diet foods

In 1899, at the Home Economics Conference in Lake Placid, New York, the title of Dietitian was created. In 1917, the Dietetic Association was founded which led to dieticians as important part of Institutional Catering programs.

True or False

1) The term restaurant was first introduced in England.2) Many institutional programs are subsidized by federal government.3) Restaurant are committed to profit 4) A&W is the first fast food chain