We eat with our eyes as much as our mouths – not literally of course, but the way food looks is incredibly important and will really affect the way in which we enjoy it. You must consider how you are going to present your food as a catering professional, ensuring it will look just as good as it tastes. This can also be challenging if you are catering for quite an informal event, that doesn’t have crockery or dishes to hand.

In this instance, you may need to improvise, or have your own crockery to hand. Source it from a specialist catering retailer, so that it is more likely to be of a high quality; you will need to make sure it doesn’t break in transit. You can then come up with creative ways of plating up your food, so that this becomes the main focus, as opposed to the dishes the food is served in.