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You can make big money with sandwiches. Millions of people buy sandwiches on a daily basis because they are a quick fix and the choice of breads and fillings is immense. Fillings used to be simple, ham and cheese or chicken salad, but this has changes as our tastes have become more sophisticated. We have become more adventurous in the ingredients and choose fish and foreign cheeses over the traditional fillings. We also expect a lot more from the bread that is used to cover these fillings.

French bread is the most popular bread variety for pre-packaged sandwiches and it is also used in pubs and cafes for those customers that eat-in. however when you are buying French bread or making it every day, it can be expensive and time consuming. So the catering industry is lucky that food service companies have started to supply French bread to them on a mass scale.

You can buy French bread sticks which have been part-baked already and then frozen.   All the caterer has to do is defrost the bread and then heat it up in the oven. You get flaky crusts and super soft insides this way. And this is what French bread should be like. These can be purchased in large quantities and kept frozen for a number of weeks. If the buyer does not have a constant number of customers, this is ideal because they do not have to buy fresh bread which might not get sold.

Having too much fresh bread that does not get sold would result in high levels of wastage. A poor deal for the environment and for the profits of the caterer. Frozen foods allow caterers to manage their stock levels and always have some spares in the freezer.

Food service businesses sell a large number of frozen foods to the catering sector as a convenient and cheaper way of supply. Savoury items like French bread, crumpets, naan bread and garlic breads can all be stored for weeks without their quality being affected. And these have been proven to be popular through rigorous taste tests that the food service companies carry out.

So when you can buy French bread in this way, caterers are saving money and getting high quality bread that can make very popular and high-selling sandwiches.