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SPECIAL TREAT FOR THE PARENTS


MUMBAI, JULY 18, 2019: The Hotel Management department of Bosco Boys Home and Technical Institute,(BBHTI) Borivli organised a  lunch for all their parents to show to them the skills they acquired through the training of the well qualified staff of BBHTI.


In all 30 students from batch number 38, joined forces in preparing the special treat for their parents lunch under the guidance of cookery teacher, Sonali Cheulkar and food and beverages service lecturer, Deepak Lala and the bakery teacher Rowena Ferreira. The lunch was divided into two courses namely main course and the desert.

This programme was one of a kind, suggested by Fr. Corlis Gonsalves sdb, the Director of the Institute. In this programme the students are encouraged to apply all the theoretical and practical knowledge which they acquired during the course, and without the help of the Instructors on their own prepare a lunch for their parents.

The planning for this began well in advance and the students were taught to cook the dishes and desserts during the cookery and bakery classes; and were prepared for service, during the food and beverage service lectures. Out of the 30 students, 10 helped out in cooking department, 12 in restaurant service, 5 in the desert making and two students were the hosts' and one bartender.
The parents were welcomed with mocktail and starters which included paneer tikka and reshmi kebab vadi. For the main course, there was paneer Makhani, dal fry, jeera rice. Mix peel cake and french bread pudding was for dessert.


Ranjana Narayankar, one of the Parent shared, “The students prepared awesome food and I was very happy with their work. I thank the staff of BBHTI for training our children well. All the best for your future and keep up the good work. God Bless.”

“We gave our very best and I am happy that the Lunch turned out to be a success. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the staff and the management and off-course my colleagues for their hard work and support shown towards me.”, Rekhank Bharadwaj, a student, said.

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