How to buy catering services
13 September 2012
Purchasers need to be especially careful when they turn their kitchen over to the professionals, as Sam Tulip explains in the fourth article of our series
The wise diner may choose not to inquire too closely into what goes on in restaurants’ kitchens. But the buyer of catering services needs to take a much more critical approach if cost and quality targets are to be met.
The catering services market poses some peculiar difficulties for the buyer, largely because it is, in effect, a complex monopoly. Three large...