27/01/2026
✨️Catering and crunching the volume numbers✨️
2017-2026
Since graduating from culinary school some 35years back, working in the food catering industry was something close to my heart. To work with one of the most respected chefs in the industry, I chose to jump into the catering industry at a young age instead of aspiring to make a name in tweezer cuisine. The volumes fascinated me. The learning curves were steep and big. The operations were fast and furious. In the mist, there was fun, tears, blood, fatigue and a strong comradeship that bonded till today in spirit. The industry taught me much need skills for another big milestone of my culinary career. It prep me and conditioned my mindset for a job that would eventually take me to 40 over countries and lived in 50+ local communities there.
I never regretted joining the catering industry at a young age. It taught me not to just focus on culinary artistry. There are bigger concerns about food in large volumes like food safety, operational feasibilities and relentless adaptions to each customer's customization of menus. It also taught me about mind over matter. I had peers who asked me back then if i was seriously giving up my career youth in fine dining for mass production food. Well i didn't really gave up on fine dining, just didn't felt the calling on it yet until big corporate customized sit down menus started to come in in the later years and also working in the super yachts industry in Europe and the Caribbean.
Since then, I have had the honor to work in various kind of projects and events providing consultancy to the local big boys like Orange Clove, Tong Jiang Group, Lavish Dine, SATS, Tenderfresh Group, Kitchen Haus Group and most recently Grain Catering.
Fact to know is despite the local FnB gloom and doom sentiments today, catering channel was still one of the brighter spots in the industry 2024-2025.
DM me if you are a fnb business owner looking for support or collaboration projects. We have the expertise to do both BOH and FOH areas especially in recipes transition leveraging on new technologies and efficiencies.