This document provides an overview of commercial cooking and the food service industry. It defines commercial cooking as cooking done on a large scale for profit to meet customer demand. Commercial cooking requires quantity preparation techniques compared to home cooking. It also differentiates between quantity cooking, which focuses on handling large amounts of ingredients and using big equipment, and quantity cookery, which involves specific cooking techniques. The document lists important personal competencies for food entrepreneurs like being opportunity-seeking, risk-taking, organized, knowledgeable, and committed to excellence.
This document provides an overview of commercial cooking and the food service industry. It defines commercial cooking as cooking done on a large scale for profit to meet customer demand. Commercial cooking requires quantity preparation techniques compared to home cooking. It also differentiates between quantity cooking, which focuses on handling large amounts of ingredients and using big equipment, and quantity cookery, which involves specific cooking techniques. The document lists important personal competencies for food entrepreneurs like being opportunity-seeking, risk-taking, organized, knowledgeable, and committed to excellence.
This document provides an overview of commercial cooking and the food service industry. It defines commercial cooking as cooking done on a large scale for profit to meet customer demand. Commercial cooking requires quantity preparation techniques compared to home cooking. It also differentiates between quantity cooking, which focuses on handling large amounts of ingredients and using big equipment, and quantity cookery, which involves specific cooking techniques. The document lists important personal competencies for food entrepreneurs like being opportunity-seeking, risk-taking, organized, knowledgeable, and committed to excellence.
COMMERCIAL COOKING AND FOOD SERVICE INDUSTRY In this lesson, you will be able to:
1. Explain Commercial cooking/cookery
2. Analyze the difference between quantity cookery and quantity cooking 3. Differentiate the different factors in the development of the food service industry 4. Appreciate the importance of cookery •Business environment is composed of two word “business” and “environment”. EXPLORE ACTIVITY 1: PUTTING IT TOGETHER Analyze the pictures below and answer the following questions 1. WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT THE PICTURES?
2. HOW IT IS RELATED TO COMMERCIAL
COOKING?
3. FOR YOU WHAT IS COMMERCIAL
COOKING? WHAT IS COOKERY? Is cooking for business and profit which involves quantity preparation to meet the demand of the great number of customers. It refers to any cooking or food production that happens on a large scale where the product is intended to be sold. Commercial cooking is simply cooking for other people, provided that they'll be compensated for the service rendered. ( www.quara.com.) The art or practice of cooking and an establishment for cooking (according to Merriam Webster)
What is the difference between quantity cooking and quantity cookery? Quantity Cookery – it involves cooking techniques, different from the usual home preparations.
Quantity Cooking - requires handling of more
ingredients, large cooking equipment and more use of energy. FIRM-UP
ACTIVITY : LOOK BACK
Recall individuals who have succeeded in the business they are in and their characteristic traits that enables them to succeed in their business.
PERSONAL ENTREPRENUERIAL COMPETENCIES (PEC’s) • Putting up a food business venture is challenging but enjoyable and rewarding too. However, before embarking on the food business, one should be equipped with the essential traits and competencies of a successful food entrepreneur so that all the challenges along the way can be overcome easily. Personal entrepreneurial competencies that a successful entrepreneur should have: • Opportunity seeker • Risk – taker – – He/ she takes risk in you have to develop the putting up a small scale of ability to look for business. opportunities for your choice of business. • Sociable - • Organized - An entrepreneur maintains good relations with • A successful employees and customers all entrepreneur keeps the time. He/she is orderly records. emotionally stable, considerate, fair, kind and tactful. • Knowledgeable • Goal – Oriented –
An entrepreneur must A good entrepreneur takes
knowledgeable of the ins specific, measurable, and outs of the business attainable, relevant and time- and continuously improve bound goals or SMART. skills. • Problem Solver - • Self – Confidence – A good entrepreneur correctly identifies a problem in the A good entrepreneur business, analyzes its causes develops the necessary trust and puts into action the best in attaining success in the solution. business. Example: how to improve the sales • Courageous - • Committed -
He/she has the guts to build Strives for excellence in
even micro-business from the food quality being scratch: “start small and offered and is not satisfied become big. ” with mediocrity or the saying “pwede na” or “ that’s good enough.” “Be wise in the way you act towards others; make the most of every opportunity.”