What is your advice to someone who aspires to enter the catering business?
There are many sectors in the catering sector, try to clearly define where you want to fit in before you start. Define who your target market is and how you would actually reach them.
-When you start, start small and gradually grow the business.
- Never, ever promise a client something that you have not made before.
- The food industry is a sensitive sector to be in, one mistake could lead to food poisoning and it’s important to have some background information on food preparation and food safety. Even if it means training under someone who can show you the do’s and don’ts.
There are many catering businesses. What makes yours unique?
Plates and Scales offers a healthier catering solution to our clients. Being founded by a Dietitian we have all the knowledge to cater for clients with different health conditions. We know how to prepare a serve a meal suitable for a diabetic. We have made it our mission to make some of the popular dishes in a healthier way; desserts with reduced sugar, using healthier cooking methods such as grilling and baking instead of frying.
Over the year Plates and Scales has been able to tap into the different sectors of the catering field, Social, Corporate and Production catering. Across all the sectors we are known for our drive to want to teach our clients to eat healthier through our food that been prepared and cooked in a healthier way.
Lastly, please offer our readers a few tips about healthy eating.
- Make your healthy eating suitable for your life and budget. We tend to want to adopt and do what others are doing and at the end it becomes a futile exercise as its not specific to us.
- Try to avoid going on diets, diets normally give short term results. With increased chances of relapsing as most diets are not sustainable.
- Do not make any big, drastic changes overnight. Slowly start to reduce the sugar you consume, switch to healthier snack options, drinking more water etc… And learn to make those changes part of your lifestyle.
- Learn to cook your way in a healthier way, reducing the amount of sugar, fat and salt you add
- Make fruits and vegetables part of your daily diet. These are low in calories and high in vitamins and mineral.
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