Essential Catering Equipment for Beginners

Beginner catering equipment should be chosen around the type of service you actually offer. Buying everything at once can create unnecessary expense, while arriving without the basics can create avoidable event-day problems.

Build around your service

Think in categories: production, holding, transport, service, sanitation, packaging and backup supplies. Then build a repeatable packing system for your most common event types.

Kitchen to Coin teaches the equipment-planning process and includes working checklists.

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The complete step-by-step training, worksheets, calculators, templates and scripts are inside the paid Kitchen to Coin program. Get Kitchen to Coin by Chef Bae® for $97.