Troubling to include a bit of tea in the food and drink provided (8)
I believe the answer is:
catering
'the food and drink provided' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'troubling to include a bit of tea' is the wordplay.
'troubling' becomes 'cering' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to include' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'bit of' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'tea' is 't'.
'a'+'t'='at'
'cering' enclosing 'at' is 'CATERING'.
'in' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for catering that I've seen before include "Providing food and drink" , "Supplying food and drink" , "provision of food" , "The supplying of meals" , "Making allowances" .)