Traditional Finnish cuisine. Organizing the event “Days of Finnish and Russian cuisines”.

Abstract

National cuisine of a particular country – is a peculiar a reflection of its culture. Finnish cuisine as well as the cuisine of other countries has its own distinctive features and characteristics.

The purpose of this thesis is to learn more about the traditional dishes of Southern, Central and Northern Finland, their preparation and using. I was interested in the organization of the events like days of Finnish and Russian traditional dishes. It includes research about promotion and temporary of extension the boundaries of food choice in the Restaurant Talli in Mikkeli. One of the objectives of the thesis is to analyse and survey customer satisfaction with respect, awareness and attitude to the national cuisine and their preferences with the use of the questionnaire.

The theoretical part includes general information about the Finnish traditional cuisine and its compar-ison with traditional Russian cuisine. Also the theoretical part provides information about the service, the main trends in the field of catering, segmentation, competitiveness and profitability.

The practical part consists of the following steps: planning, organization, preparation, carrying out of the event, a survey among the visitors of the restaurant. After the event I collected and analyses all the data. I was also held a brief interview with the manager of the restaurant.

Received results have been summarized. The Traditional day’s event was carried out successfully enough according to the profit and survey responses.

Also, suggestions were made to conduct such events in future for a large public awareness of the tra-ditional cuisine.