If you are devoted fan of ‘friends’ the popular soap opera created by David and Martha Phoebe Buffey and Monica Geller started a catering business in partnership, and all those enterprising housewives who would want to earn few extra bucks here is your chance! Starting a new business necessitates a lot of courage and self belief, assuming that you have these qualities we shall move on to next step as to what you need to start a home based catering business. People often have the starting trouble, what do I cater? One potential answer would be serving drinks and other beverages at a party or a function, which seems to be relatively simple and less complicated.Any business to run successfully requires a staff that is efficient and dedicated. So be it a small time catering service or a huge business that you are planning, your staff is your strength. These staff has to be trained well in personality skills and be able to handle even the most irate customer with a smile. To avoid internal hassles it is important that all your staff is able to get along well with each other. Besides the staff you have the head chef and the manager, they are the two pillars on which the whole business of yours rest. These are the people on whom the customers rely. The nature of their jobs are poles apart and not even remotely connected yet to give your customer the best of service in quality and quantity it is important that they go hand in hand.The chef and his army of cooks should be a storehouse of recipes of variegated nature such that you know what to serve at different seasons and different occasions few like it hot, few like it cold. So your menu should have items meeting the needs of all so that your guests have no chance to grumble (although most of them still manage to do it because their faculty of appreciation is conked out, this is when you practice selective hearing) .when do you serve the food? Late enough for people to feel their hunger and early enough so that they don’t murder and eat you instead. The manager on other hand does the talking and advertising. He brings the clients and also looks into the organizational details. Like I said business isn’t fun, it sure requires meticulous planning on part of the manager and the chef and the ability to withstand pressure (and survive pile of crap that people can throw at you if you go wrong) Some catering services dedicate themselves to theme based parties only. It is important to know if the party you are catering to have any theme of some sort, then the menu and the other details need to be congruent with the theme. So if the theme is beach party or country Western dance the waiters could have attire that goes with the theme.So even among catering business there is a variety that you can choose to stick with. The most important thing should be your customer service because it is they who you’re your business grow later. Although lot of them can be a pain in you-know-where, the world is does have some good souls, and I hope you find some of these as your next customersJ.