Characteristics of Food Production and Service Systems - Desklib

Food and Beverages

TASK A- 1.1 Characteristics of food
production
 The production of food basically includes the purchasing
of required raw material, menu preparation, required
equipments, cooking and storing the food which is
prepared.
 It includes dishes from fruits to cuisines that are
decorated in different-different ways.
 The process of food production includes various types of
cooking method.

Methods of food production
 Convenience method
Food is pre processed in this method because they are in canned or
frozen form.
Food needs to warm up in microwave or oven before consuming.
 Conventional method
Immediately foods are served to guests because they are prepared
and cooked on the site.

Cook Chill and centralized method
 Cook-chill method
This method keeps the food for long period of time such as 6-7
days.
Food requires the normal preparation and after that they are
rapidly chilled with controlled temperature.
 Centralized method
Food is prepared and cooked in main central kitchen.
After cooking, food is distributed to several places
This method is used by large fast food chains.