Development of Food Service Institutions

A food service institution is one which plans prepares and serves food in quantities far greater than those characteristic of usual home meals. Such institutions serve various functions depending on the demands placed on them by their customers and vary from small to very large establishments. Though development has been rapid and widespread during the last 50 years the services have their roots in customs and habits characteristic of our civilisation. In mediaeval times quantity food production was the rule rather than the exception in religious orders, royal households and places of education where it was traditional in India for students to live with the teacher or Guru for the years of their education.