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It is very important to get the daily intake of nutrition from food every day, even if it means people are away from home. Many working professionals and students of colleges and schools tend to spend a majority of their day outside of home. This does not mean they can compromise on home food which is very important to give them energy to work throughout the day. Due to this fact, more often than not they carry lunch boxes with home food packed inside. 






Some advantages of carrying lunch boxes:-

      Some advantages of carrying them could are:-

  •          Getting home cooked food at your work stations or educational places. 
  •          Do not have to hunt for food places or rush to the canteen to eat your meals. 
  •          You can have it while commuting in trains or busses. 
  •          Quality of food is the highest, as it is made from pure ingredients of home.
  •          It is way cheaper than eating outside. 
  •          Full lunch can be carrier in steel cases. 
  •          Provides better energy rather than outside sources.

Some disadvantages of carrying lunch boxes:-

  •          Not easy to carry if travelling long distances due to heavy weight.
  •          Can get squashed in transit.
  •          Not warm, food does not remain hot by the time you eat food. 
  •          Burden to make it if one leaves home in the early morning of the day.
  •          No variety or taste available in case of lunch boxes from home. 

Seeing the list of disadvantages, a certain section of the hotel industry developed a system by which they can create an opportunity off the weakness of tiffins. This system is of food catering. By this system a food service company is given the contract to manage giving food in a certain working organization or educational institute.
 

How is food catering services running their business in profits?

         The basic principle because of which these service providing companies make profits is due to economies of scale.

  •          Be it a canteen of an organization or school, serving population is huge.
  •          This increase in population reduces the cost of production for them, as they have to make bulk              quantities of the same delicacies. 
  •          Thus, for the food catering service industry, raw materials would be purchased in bulk which turns           out to be cheaper for them. 
  •          Due to this they make profits by selling at optimum rates than others but reducing their cost of              production.

It is very important for people to get daily nourishment in order to have better growth and give them enough energy to survive their long day. It is not a decision of a day but probably years, thus people should decide whether to opt for lunch boxes or canteens. For children it is better that they carry lunch from home, as they are at the growing stages of life and it is very important for them to eat good quality food. Having junk outside or other types of outside food is not advisable for a healthy living thus, children should be given from home.





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