How to Choose a Catering Company in Saudi Arabia: 10 Questions Worth Asking
Every catering bid looks good on paper. Glossy deck, sample menus, a photo of a buffet nobody will ever eat from. The proposal is not the product. What you're actually buying is how a contractor behaves in month nineteen, when the novelty is gone, the site manager has changed twice and someone's chiller failed on a Thursday night. These ten questions get you closer to that answer than any tasting session will. 1. What's the scope on your certificates? Not "are you certified" — everyone says yes. Ask which certificate covers which location. Food safety certification in Saudi Arabia is site-specific. A HACCP certificate for a central kitchen in Riyadh tells you nothing about the kitchen a contractor would build at your site in Jubail. Ask for the actual PDFs, check the issuing body, check the expiry date, check the address on the scope line. Look for ISO 22000 (food safety management), HACCP, and ISO 9001 at minimum. SFDA registration is table stakes, not ...