Caterers services in Mumbai, is a flourishing business
because it is closely linked to parties, festival dinners and lunches, weddings
and other social functions. Apart from social functions, these services are
also extended to corporate needs. Employers can organise for healthy food to be
served to their employees. Creating various delicacies from India’s vast
culinary palate, these services can cater to any kind of tastes. A corporate
catering service has to be just as vigilant about quality of food served as
those who cater to parties and social events.
Caterers can cater to any kind of crowd – from small
kitty parties to lavish wedding parties. These services are called in for kitty
parties – who usually want ‘chaat’ counters and finger food, to birthday
parties – who want starters, main course, desert and juices or for lavish
wedding parties – who want various cuisines ranging for Italian to Mexican to
Chinese besides various courses of meals. Thus catering services are customisable
and have a large scale of operations in Mumbai especially which is the melting
pot of cultures – there is someone to eat every kind of food.
One of the more popular among the food served by
catering services is Indian vegetarian food. There are
many takers for vegetarian food – since it is considered healthier and more
hygienic. Indians, by default prefer home cooked food, but when they have no
choice while outside their homes they prefer to eat vegetarian food. This is
for not only hygienic reasons – they do not have to eat meat which might not be
cleaned in a hygienic manner – but also because it is healthier, much easier to
digest.
For caterers, Indian
vegetarian food is cheaper to prepare in larger quantities rather than non
vegetarian food. Since vegetarian food is consumed in larger quantities, most
lavish parties and social events prefer serving that to their guests – making
the food bill much more cost effective. There could be several variations in
the food served even among vegetarian food, but the cost of the whole meal per
plate is much cheaper than when you include a non vegetarian item in the menu.
The latest trend among caterers services
is to move away from traditional food,
since most Indian palates are open to experimenting with international
cuisines. So an Italian, Mexican or Chinese counter is quite frequently seen at
weddings and social events. People are also not averse to trying these out at meals
served by caterers at their workplace.
When cooked in larger quantities, these cuisines –
Italian, Mexican or Chinese, work just fine since there are no delicate spices
involved. So even if the catering service misses out on some non essential but
important ingredient – say in a Chinese cuisine, the caterer adds salt instead
of Ajinomoto – it would still be palatable. Unlike Indian traditional food, a tuned
Indian palate can immediately pick up something missing among the
ingredients. This works fine even for
the caterers since it is far simpler to whip a non-Indian dish in a larger
quantity than an Indian dish. As is the belief of most Indians eating out, they
choose to believe that it is best to eat traditional Indian food when cooked in
smaller quantities and when cooked at home. Experimentation with food should be
left to when you are eating out.
