Catering Training Family Style
By Kirk Bangstad kirk.bangstad@chefschoolreview.com Chef School Review Columnist
The “family business” is a concept that doesn’t seem to fit into a modern America with mega malls and chain stores. But a family in New Jersey has defied modern trends and kept their family’s catering business going for three generations.
Catering Jobs more Lucrative than Selling Sausage
The Express-Times of New Jersey recently wrote an article about the history of J. DeFranco and Daughter’s Catering. Joseph DeFranco’s grandfather first opened a butcher shop in 1926 and sold sausage made in the Old Italian style. Joseph’s father turned the butcher shop into a catering business in 1989; this is where Joseph started his catering training. Joseph is still carrying on the family tradition and his catering training has seemingly paid off. The catering jobs keep rolling in, and he is busy all week long.
Catering Jobs May Entice 4th Generation
Joseph’s grandfather named his butcher shop DeFranco and Sons. His father did the same. Joseph didn’t have any sons, and thus renamed his business J. Defranco and Daughters. As his catering jobs increase, Joseph has had to put his daughters through the DeFranco catering training process. Although two are now in college, a third in high school continues to help out.
In a world where many suburbs look like carbon copies of one another, complete with Starbucks and Subways on every corner, it’s good know that a “family business” like DeFranco’s still has enough catering jobs to keep them humming
Source
Catering is the Family Business, New Jersey Express-Times
About the Author
Kirk Bangstad is a singer living in Chicago, IL. Having received his B.A. in Government at Harvard, Kirk previously worked as a management consultant.
Posted on June 21, 2006 at 2:23 PM
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