Welcome to the Care Catering
This site is for existing customers, potential new customers and the parents of
the children we serve. In the next few pages I would like to tell you about Care
Catering and the quality of service we provide.
Care Catering is an established company that specialises in catering for the day
nursery and child care business. Why is there a need for such a company though?
Why not provide the food on site at each individual nursery, surely would not that
be a better solution?
In my experience it is not. There are some real difficulties in providing food from
each nursery.
Firstly finding staff can be very difficult. The position of nursery cook is rarely
a full time position and is usually not very well paid so it does not appeal to
the professional cook or chef. It is also all year round so it does not appeal to
mums with school age children. Some nurseries do get lucky and find someone who
is good and reliable however most do not and end up with staff with little or no
knowledge of catering for greater numbers and frequently with little knowledge of
the specific needs of growing children.
Secondly when providing the food from each individual nursery the staff member will
take holiday and sick days. I know it is common practise in such times that a member
of the nursery staff will cover in the kitchen putting the staff in the nursery
under pressure and also exposing the children to the limitations of the member of
staff’s knowledge about safe working practices in a kitchen.
Thirdly is the staff turnover in the nursery kitchen. Many nurseries do experience
high turnover in the kitchen and it is the standards of hygiene and food production
that can suffer.
These are some of the problems that I experienced in my ten years working alongside
my mother in our family business of providing day care for children. We learned
early on that centralised catering offered some huge benefits to the nursery and
the children. I have taken everything I learned in that time, with my catering background,
and applied it in my company and we are now producing fantastic, healthy and exciting
meals for the children that they actually enjoy!