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Hospitality & Catering Business

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Course Code: YSS-415

Pillar: SMB Business Academy

Course Overview: Hospitality and catering combine food, service, organisation, and customer care. Learners explore suitable business opportunities, menu and package design, food safety, hygiene, pricing, event delivery, operations, marketing, and customer experience.

These practical elements help them shape a credible small-business plan that protects quality, manages costs, and responds to the needs of customers and events.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Understand hospitality and catering as business opportunities.
  • Identify customer segments and food service needs.
  • Design simple menus, service packages, and customer offers.
  • Plan food safety, hygiene, preparation, pricing, and delivery.
  • Manage customer experience, service quality, and complaints.
  • Create a practical hospitality and catering business plan.

Target Audience: Young people interested in catering, food preparation, event food services, snack businesses, home-based food businesses, mobile food services, hospitality support, or customer service businesses. Suitable for youth entrepreneurship programs, TVET institutions, NGOs, ministries, incubators, livelihood programs, and community enterprise initiatives.

Course Structure: 5 modules / 20 lessons.

Special Feature: Every module concludes with a Putting It All Together audio deep dive that connects the key lessons and supports reflection and practical application.

Pathway Focus: Understand Hospitality & Catering Business. Build capability in Food Safety, Hygiene and Service Delivery. Apply learning through Branding, Marketing and Business Growth.

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Course Introduction
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  • Hospitality & Catering Business
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Foundations of Hospitality & Catering Business
Module Purpose: Introduce learners to hospitality and catering as practical service businesses built on food quality, customer care, hygiene, reliability, and trust. What Learners Will Explore: Learners will examine the key concepts, practical choices, youth scenarios, and real-life applications connected to this topic. Practical Application: This topic supports immediate use through reflection, planning, hands-on activities, guided exercises, and action-oriented learning.

Customers, Menu Design and Service Packages
Module Purpose: Help learners identify target customers, understand food service needs, study competitors, and design clear menus and catering packages. What Learners Will Explore: Learners will examine the key concepts, practical choices, youth scenarios, and real-life applications connected to this topic. Practical Application: This topic supports immediate use through reflection, planning, hands-on activities, guided exercises, and action-oriented learning.

Food Safety, Hygiene and Service Delivery
Module Purpose: Equip learners to plan safe food preparation, hygiene routines, packaging, storage, delivery, service workflow, and quality checks. What Learners Will Explore: Learners will examine the key concepts, practical choices, youth scenarios, and real-life applications connected to this topic. Practical Application: This topic supports immediate use through reflection, planning, hands-on activities, guided exercises, and action-oriented learning.

YSS415 Pricing, Operations and Customer Management
Module Purpose: Help learners price food services, manage orders, plan production, coordinate delivery, communicate with customers, and handle complaints. What Learners Will Explore: Learners will examine the key concepts, practical choices, youth scenarios, and real-life applications connected to this topic. Practical Application: This topic supports immediate use through reflection, planning, hands-on activities, guided exercises, and action-oriented learning.

YSS415 Branding, Marketing and Business Growth
Module Purpose: Guide learners to promote hospitality and catering services, build customer trust, grow repeat customers, track performance, and create a practical business plan. What Learners Will Explore: Learners will examine the key concepts, practical choices, youth scenarios, and real-life applications connected to this topic. Practical Application: This topic supports immediate use through reflection, planning, hands-on activities, guided exercises, and action-oriented learning.

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