CATERING

As we all continue to experience the daily pressures of rising costs, Caterlink, alongside the E21C trust, are working hard to ensure we continue to offer a tasty, nutritious, balanced, and value for money food offer across our Primary and Secondary Schools. It is more important than ever to ensure that we continue to support with these ever-increasing price pressures, and our promise remains to hold the prices of our main meals, fresh fruit, salad and healthy options to promote the uptake of these items.

We are working closely with each school to develop the food offer with new Menus coming after the Easter break which will be enhanced by Theme and Destination Days to keep the offer exciting and bespoke for each of the 8 schools within the trust. We have recently sent out surveys to students to gain valuable feedback on how we are doing and what we need to improve on. We provide vouchers for selected students to encourage their feedback, and to thank them for helping us to develop our food offer and improve the dining spaces we operate in. We are currently working with Coopers, Eden Park and The Ravensbourne School on how we can improve the facilities in which our teams operate, in order to support the development of the food offer and service we provide.

This year, we once again plan to promote our Summer Packed Lunch offer within our primary schools, which we hope will encourage your child to take advantage of this, and then continue to enjoy school meals moving forward. Not only will this allow us to provide a tasty lunch that can be enjoyed in the playground of the schools, but it will also enable the students to maximise their lunch break and playtime with their friends.

Sustainability remains at the heart of what we do, looking at ways to drive down food miles, packaging into our kitchens and waste going into our bins. There will be further menu and concept development for the Autumn term along with craft training and support from our Development team to ensure we are working on the skill sets of our most valuable assets, which is our people who deliver a great service daily within the E21C trust