Eduqas Level 1/2 Hospitality and Catering (5409) · Spec 1.1.1
Types of provider
Read the notes, then try the questions. Each one is marked the moment you press Check, and shows the right answer and why.
Key ideas
- Every provider can be sorted with two questions. Does it aim to make a profit? Does it offer somewhere to sleep overnight?
- Commercial providers aim to make a profit, such as hotels, restaurants, cafes and takeaways. Non-commercial providers serve a particular group, often subsidised or at cost, such as school canteens, hospitals and care homes.
- Residential providers offer accommodation, such as hotels, cruise ships, hospital wards and boarding schools. Non-residential providers serve food and drink only, with no beds.
- Put the two answers together and you get four groups. A hotel is commercial and residential. A restaurant is commercial and non-residential. A hospital is non-commercial and residential. A school canteen is non-commercial and non-residential.
Key terms
- Commercial
- Aims to make a profit.
- Non-commercial
- Serves a particular group, often subsidised or at cost, rather than aiming for profit.
- Residential
- Offers somewhere to sleep overnight.
- Non-residential
- Serves food and drink only, with no beds.
- Subsidised
- Partly paid for by someone else, so the food costs the customer less.
- En-suite
- A private bathroom joined to a hotel bedroom.
Common mistakes
- Calling a school canteen residential because pupils are there all day. Residential means people sleep there, not that they stay a long time.
- Mixing up the two pairs of words. Profit decides commercial or non-commercial. Beds decide residential or non-residential.
- Saying a hospital is non-residential because it is not a hotel. Patients stay on the wards overnight, so it is residential.
Exam tip
When a question asks you to classify a provider, give both parts, such as 'commercial and residential', and use the clue from the question: does it say it aims to make a profit, and do customers stay overnight?
Free practice questions
7 questions, 14 marks. Answer, then press Check. The marking guide explains how the marks are worked out. Nothing is saved.
- Question 1 · Multiple choice[1 mark]
Which pair of words describes a hotel?
- Question 2 · True or false[1 mark]
True or false: pupils eating in a school canteen makes it a residential provider.
- Question 3 · Fill the gaps[1 mark]
A provider that aims to make a profit is called a ___ provider.
Word bank: non-commercial · residential · subsidised · commercial
- Question 4 · Matching[4 marks]
Match each term to its meaning.
- Question 5 · Sort into groups[4 marks]
Sort each provider into commercial or non-commercial.
School canteen
Boutique hotel
Pizza takeaway
Hospital kitchen
- Question 6 · Choose more than one[2 marks]
Which TWO of these are residential providers?
Choose 2.
- Question 7 · Put in order[1 mark]
Put these stages of a guest's hotel stay in the order they happen.
Use the arrows to put these in the right order, first at the top.
- 1Guest checks in at reception
- 2Guest sleeps in the bedroom
- 3Guest pays and checks out
- 4Guest eats breakfast in the dining room