There are plenty of times when either a company or
a family has need of a catering company to take care
of one or more functions. But how do you know which
catering company to turn to?
If you live in the Witwatersrand
the answer is quite simple. Prue Leith catering. Prue
Leith catering are ideally placed for any functions
in the Johannesburg and Pretoria area, and they cater
for a wide variety of different functions, including:
Weddings
Cocktail parties
Large or small banquets
Sports dinners
Private dinner parties
Business lunches
Boardroom functions
Corporate functions of all types
Prue Leith catering came into being in April 2005 and
was the brainchild of Tiny Barnetson and Graham Ledger.
Nine years earlier Tiny and Graham started the Prue
Leith Chef's Academy just a few blocks away in
the picturesque Centurion garden suburb of Hennopspark.
The company has its own catering experts but also uses
the skills of the academy staff and students. The aim
of Prue Leith catering is to follow the excellence of
the academy by supplying cuisine of supreme quality
and conveying it to a location of the client's
choosing.
The company runs from a large modern industrial
kitchen in an pretty industrial estate in Centurion.
They work from a 200 square-metre kitchen that is fully
equipped with the latest state of the art equipment.
It meets with the highest international standards for
food production, hygiene and safety. On the premises
is a large dining room that may be hired for various
different functions. The premises are handily placed
for students from the academy, being only 2.5
kilometres away. Prue Leith catering are the experts
conveniently located for functions in and around Pretoria
and Johannesburg, being less than a half hour's
drive from either.
If you need a caterer for one of your functions, do
allow plenty of time for planning with the catering company. It's not very helpful to the catering company if you telephone them the day before the event
to tell them that there are an extra ten places needed,
two of which need Vegan food.
There are many factors
to take into consideration when trying to choose the
right caterer for your function. The first thing to
consider is to allow plenty of time in order to allow
the chosen caterer to make any last minute changes.
It's not being very helpful if you telephone the
caterer on the day before the dance to ask him if he
can please add three more places to the seating plan
and can he please make two of the main course servings
vegetarian.
The planning of a catering function with
a meal of several courses takes time. Ingredients have
to be ordered well in advance and in the right amounts
to prevent any waste. Then the food has to be prepared
and cooked - all this takes time. Then there are
all the other very important things that you have to
think about. There is the cutlery, the linen, the crockery,
the bar, the waiters and waitresses and the champagne.
The list goes on, in fact there are so many things to
be taken into consideration that it is all too easy
to leave something out, only to discover it at the last
minute, or later. If you need a caterer for a function
in the Gauteng area, the first one to contact has to
be Prue Leith catering.