historique: 40 ans au service des professionels de la restauration
English translation: Background: 40 years of service to the food service industry
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background: 40 years (experience) in serving the professional catering business Explanation: Assuming that the company provides some sort of ancillary service to the catering trade, I think that 'in serving' should be suitable. You could substitute 'trade' for business if you prefer. |
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track record Explanation: Track record is what is generally used in this context, although background is not bad either. An alternative translation for the remainder of the sentence (if you have the space) is: we have served professionals in the catering service for 40 years. HTH |
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Background: 40 years in the service of professionals from the catering business Explanation: professionels de la restaurations would mean the professional people in the business of restauration / catering |
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8 hrs confidence:
Our experience: Explanation: About us: 40 years' experience of serving catering industry professionals. HTH |
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9 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2Background: 40 years of service to the food service industry Explanation: *restauration* is the food service industry in NA. BE usage is catering. There's too much "service" in the sentence You could take the play on words and say "catering to" instead of "service to" Even more effective than the word "Background" would be the name of the company: XXX-- catering to the needs of food service industry professionals for 40 years OR XXX-- catering to the needs of the food service industry for 40 years French:Commercial Practice (Restaurants) restauration s CORRECT,FEM industrie de la restauration s CORRECT,FEM secteur de la restauration s CORRECT,MASC secteur des services d'alimentation s CORRECT,MASC DEF - Ensemble des activités économiques se rapportant à l'exploitation des établissements spécialisés dans la préparation et le service de repas et de boissons (restaurants publics, restaurants-traiteurs et restaurants de collectivité). s OBS - Regroupe toutes les formes de restauration classique, sociale, les traiteurs, etc. s English (commercial practice) food service English:Commercial Practice (Restaurants) food service s CORRECT,USA catering s CORRECT,GR. BRITAIN food service industry s CORRECT restaurant industry s CORRECT catering industry s CORRECT,GR. BRITAIN restaurant business s CORRECT EX - Restaurant and Food Service Managers plan, organize, direct and control the operations of the restaurant, bar, cafeteria or other food or beverage service; but you often get to interact with the customers. s 1998-02-06 |
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