Table d' hote ( French table d'hôte - the host table) is a type of menu with a single integrated price in guest houses , resort hotels , restaurants and other catering establishments [1] , which includes everything from appetizer to dessert (in various variations). This allows you to reduce the choice in accordance with the technological capabilities of the enterprise and establish effective control over the quality of prepared dishes, as well as speed up the service of visitors.
A business lunch can be attributed to this type of menu (in this case, a set of dishes is served at a certain time (“afternoon lunch”), which basically coincides with the lunch break of most enterprises and organizations).
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History
Writer and journalist Louis Denoisier , in his essays on Parisian customs, explains: “ A table d'hote means in Paris any place where, at a certain hour, at a common table you can taste a stew for a very reasonable price ... ” [2]
Table dots were not only more economical than restaurants, but also a more archaic form of customer service: the one who sat at the common table had no choice and was forced to eat the same food as everyone else. In addition, the best pieces at the table dot went to the regulars who were sitting closer to the center of the table, where the main course was placed. So, the humble person who got a place on the edge risked, especially if he ate slowly, to leave the table hungry. The writer L. S. Mercier, in his voluminous collection of "Pictures of Paris" (1781), wrote about these shortcomings in catering: " Foreigners cannot stand them, but they have nowhere else to dine. One has to sit at a table in the company of twelve strangers, and a polite and shy person sometimes fails to eat dinner, for which he paid his own money ” [3] .
At the services of Parisians and visitors there were table dots of different price and quality. The most luxurious and expensive they were in large hotels [2] .
Notes
- ↑ International Marketing: A Textbook for High Schools. 2nd ed., Revised and supplemented . - Publishing House "Peter", 2007-12-05. - 688 p. - ISBN 9785911806606 .
- ↑ 1 2 Milchina V.A. Paris in 1814–1848: everyday life . - New Literary Review, 2014-11-27. - 975 s. - ISBN 9785444803370 .
- ↑ Mercier L.-S. Tabledot // Pictures of Paris. Volume 1. - M. - L: Asademia, 1935. - S. 179.
See also
- Buffet