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!