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Catering vs Chef - What's the difference?

catering | chef |

As nouns the difference between catering and chef

is that catering is the business of providing food and related services; foodservice while chef is boss.

As a verb catering

is .

catering

English

(wikipedia catering)

Noun

  • The business of providing food and related services; foodservice.
  • The business of providing such services for special occasions.
  • The act of one who caters (to something).
  • * 1864 , J. D. White, John Hugh McQuillen, George Jacob Ziegler, The Dental Cosmos
    • Professional jealousies are always confined to the more ignorant; and education alone will enable us to rise above our catchpenny caterings to the prejudices and jealousies of the uninformed.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    chef

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household
  • *<1845 , R. H. Barham, Blasphemer's Warning'' in ''Ingoldsby Legends (1847), 3rd Ser., 245
  • *:The Chef' s peace of mind was restor'd, And in due time a banquet was placed on the board.
  • The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment
  • *1849 , Thackeray, Pendennis (1850), I. xxviii. 266
  • *:The angry little chef of Sir Francis Clavering's culinary establishment.
  • Any cook
  • *Kiss the chef

    • Usage notes

    When used in reference to a cook with no sous-chefs or other workers beneath him, the term is connotes a certain degree of prestige—whether culinary education or ability—distinguishing the chef from a “cook”. As a borrowing, chef was originally italicized, but such treatment is now obsolete.

    Synonyms

    * (head cook) cook

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