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About our Company

Offshore
Food Etcetera Limited, founded in 1973, was one of the local pioneers in offshore catering for the oil industry.Its first job was with McDermott Inc., in 1974 on two of their heavy duty lifting barges, installing production platforms for Amoco Inc. off the East Coast.


Since then the company has provided full catering services to a wide array of local and foreign drilling and well service contractors and oil companies.
It has operated off the East and West Coasts of Trinidad; in the Northern Caribbean off St. Eustatius, flying crews back and forth every fortnight and has also provided personnel and supplies for tows to Louisiana, Texas and Libya.

Onshore
The company operates its own kitchen, a 1.640 sq ft facility at its head office at the Fernandes Industrial Centre in Laventille. It is primarily a kitchen in the National Schools Dietary Services programme, but also used for other onshore catering services and for the on-going training of kitchen and ancillary staff.

 

Training
The company acknowledges the adage "Don't blame, if you don't train" and has in place a Training Matrix to ensure that each employee is taught to know as much as possible about his job and his peripheral responsibilities.

Cooks are our main asset. In the past the company used the services of John Donaldson Tech and the Trinidad Hilton for training and upgrading its cooks and bakers; today it does this in-house, using its own chef. The emphasis is on training staff to focus on "Cooking for a Healthier Lifestyle".

Food Etcetera has produced approximately 165 pages of recipes, covering all aspects of the culinary arts.

Core Services
The company's management activities focus on a set of core services widely demanded by resource companies.

  • Meal Services
  • Food, beverage and non-food supplies
  • Housekeeping and janitorial services
  • Kitchen design/lay-out and supply
  • Human resource procurement and management
  • Facilities management
  • Off-site catering for plant shut-downs
  • Special events catering

Offshore Clients over the Years

  • Amoco Trinidad
  • Compression & Power Services
  • Dolphin Inc
  • ESS Worldwide Services
  • Halliburton Inc
  • Maersk Drilling SA
  • Petrotrin Ltd
  • Pride International
  • Sedco Inc
  • The National Gas Co of T&T
  • Zapata Inc

Onshore Clients over the Years

  • Atlas Methanol
  • Guardian Life
  • Label House
  • N. H. International
  • St. Andrew's Golf Club
  • Shell Trinidad
  • Sissons Paints
  • The National Gas Co of T&T
  • TIDCO
  • Vemco Ltd
 

 

Head Office Facilities

The company's head office and warehouse are conveniently located in the Fernandes Industrial Centre, Laventille.

In Addition to the kitchen, there are as follows:

  • 8,500 sq ft of warehouse space, adequately racked for dry stores
  • 7,300 cu ft freezer and 1,760 cu ft chiller storage.
  • A sterile meat room.
  • A sterile, exclusive seafood processing facility.

 


  • A comfortable 430 sq ft conference room, outfitted for orientation sessions, training programmes and meetings.
  • A sterile room (1200 sq ft) exclusively for the processing and packaging of seafood (our own brand- Prize Catch).
  • A fleet of food service delivery vehicles facilitate the safe and hygienic movement of foodstuff - raw and finished.