Question

You operate a small catering firm specializing in sit-down dinner parties that you prepare and serve yourself with no helpers. A client of yours loves your food so much that she has asked you to cater her daughter's wedding reception for 300 people, to be held in her back yard. It's your first chance at a big event and you're not really set up for it. You don't have the equipment, you don't have the staff, and you don't have the connections to musicians; however, you're tempted. What would be your wisest decision? A. Turn down the job, explaining why you can't do it, and wish her luck finding someone else. B. Accept the job and use this chance to make all the contacts you need to expand your business. C. Turn the job down; however, give the client the name of a high-quality catering firm that can meet her needs. D. Agree to make the food if the client will subcontract all the other services herself.

Answer 1

The correct option is C. When accepting a catering job, the interest of the client should be the highest priority, a cantering contractor ought to have all that is needed for her to deliver her job perfectly. In the question given above, the cantering contractor does not have the capacity to handle the job she is been offered, the best thing for her to do is to refer the client to a caterer that have the capacity to handle the job.