commercial catering

[ambrosia]

thinking about doing commercial catering, can anyone recommend any good CoDC1 courses in the London area

also which do you consider the essential catering appliances i should take

thanks
Seth

 

[ambrosia]

has anybody used 'Gas Safety Services Training Ltd' in Earlsfield south london, their prices seem pretty reasonable

also how common are Forced Draught Burners

 

[gasmarc]

I would look at your local collage first, regarding doing commercial catering which I have done some of , I could not think of a worse environment to work in hot dirty slippery floors usually a nightmare for parking , bad payers ,I dont mean to put you off ,each to their own i suppose

 

[ambrosia]

to be honest your not the 1st person to say that the resturant trade are bad payers and that invoices are often hard to get paid,
maybe i should think it through a bit more before taking the course

thanks Marc

 

[james the plumb]

Yeh it is a bad environment to work in but there are ways around it. Rubber gloves, disposable overall etc. The are not many catering engineers and if you are a sole trader it's a notch to your belt. Most commercial catering is handled by big companies, if you are small it's a niche market! But there are bad payers.

 

[ukgasman]

They can't all be bad payers. Maybe you have had some bad experiences or your just trying to protect your niche market. Am thinking of doing commercial catering course and I think it's definitely worth it.

 

[Dotty]

I'd rather hope that after 5 years he'd have it sorted.