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Today, the number of students at all levels in Hanoi keeps growing, which drives up the demand for boarding meals at school. To meet this demand, schools have planned and invested in designing the necessary equipment for their kitchens, ensuring food safety and hygiene, in order to create quality meals. However, many schools do not have the conditions or the space to build a kitchen to serve their students, so they need to order meals from industrial catering providers. That is why schools pay special attention to quality, safe, hygienic and fully nutritious school catering services from the industrial catering providers in the city.
Among them, STAVI is the trusted provider that many partners and schools have entrusted with the mission of bringing students delicious, quality, safe, hygienic and fully nutritious meals. It is also our joy and pride that, through the meals our company provides, children can develop fully both intellectually and physically, to become the future owners of the country.
Image: STAVI provides trusted school catering, the most popular choice in Vietnam
The current state of school meals in Vietnam
According to the results of a 2014 survey by the National Institute of Nutrition, a great many Vietnamese children in different regions are suffering from nutrient deficiencies. In reality, children's needs for study and physical activity are very high and consume a great deal of energy, so they need a fully nutritious and varied diet. With each day in the classroom, when they are provided with nutrition and energy through standard-compliant school meals that are fully nutritious and hygienic, children can develop more comprehensively.
Image: Improving the quality of school meals is an essential need today
In addition, a reality that causes confusion and worry among parents and teachers in schools today is that some cases of food poisoning still occur in schools. Although this does not happen often, parents' concerns about the quality of school meals are ever-present. Inspections and surprise checks at school kitchens have shown that there are still places with shortcomings and incorrect procedures in organising boarding meals at school. These include: the management and supervision of boarding kitchens at some schools is not carried out regularly; raw and cooked food is still being mixed together; food suppliers are not honouring their food safety commitments,... Or some school catering companies fail to meet food safety and hygiene regulations in food preparation, or buy cheap food that does not guarantee hygiene and safety,...
Image: Schools' and parents' concerns about school meals
In the face of these ever-present risks, schools need to treat food safety for boarding meals at school as no less important than the task of teaching and learning. Inspections and surprise checks of school kitchens and of suppliers of food or school meals need to be stepped up in order to detect and prevent violations early and avoid regrettable incidents.
In reality, to provide safe, nutritious school meals for students, the greatest responsibility still lies with the schools and those who directly "run the kitchen". Therefore, in addition to continuing to improve the facilities of boarding kitchens and dining halls, it is very important that schools always follow the correct steps in the process of running a boarding kitchen or receiving meals from outside. In particular, schools must follow the principle of only signing food supply contracts with reliable providers that have full legal standing, and strictly controlling the source of food or meals right from the input stage... Another important task is to provide regular training in food safety and hygiene knowledge and skills; how to distinguish and recognise fresh, raw food that meets requirements; and how to prevent food poisoning and food-borne diseases… for staff, teachers and kitchen workers.
Why use an industrial catering service for schools?
As you can see, the number of meals for students at schools keeps increasing, and to ensure full nutrition and food safety and hygiene for the children, using an industrial catering service is a very sensible choice.
The industrial catering for schools service has brought many practical benefits, saving time and providing the full number of meals right on time for the students' lunch break. The dishes are prepared by a team of skilled kitchen staff, creating varied dishes that suit everyone's taste. All food used by safe catering services is sourced with clear origins and carefully stored, protecting everyone's health as well as food safety and hygiene.
Therefore, choosing a provider of industrial catering services for schools is an extremely important matter, as it relates to the health and the intellectual and physical development of students. It also affects the quality and reputation of the school. So it is impossible to simply go for the cheapest option and pick any provider at random to get it over with, because substandard meals will have a huge impact on the children's health and cause serious consequences.
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Building a nutrition plan for school meals
The nutritional content of today's industrial school meals is of special concern to parents and teachers. Meals with all the essential nutrients not only help children develop physically and intellectually, but also provide the energy students need to study and play. Therefore, applying a scientific nutrition plan to every meal is extremely important and is the foundation for children's comprehensive development in the future.
The first factor in assessing whether a school meal is nutritious is the balance between food groups in a menu and providing enough calories for students. Each type of food provides only certain nutrients, so all nutrients must be combined in one meal, covering all 4 food groups to ensure adequate supply in both quantity and quality.
Glucides (carbohydrates)
Carbohydrates are the main source of energy for the human body, from the central nervous system to the energy for the body's organs to work. Glucides are usually found in starchy foods such as rice and products made from rice such as rice vermicelli, rice cakes, pho noodles… Starch is also found in foods such as corn, sweet potatoes and cassava. These are all foods in the cereal group, which provide starch (for energy) and are also a good source of fibre.
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Protein
Protein is a source of energy for the body; it plays an important role in building and regenerating all body tissues; it takes part in regulating metabolism and digestion, producing antibodies and creating appetite. It is an essential nutrient in meals, especially for students – an age that needs plenty of nutrients to develop both physically and intellectually.
Protein provides an important source of energy for activities and the development of thinking ability. Therefore, meat, fish and eggs are indispensable dishes in every meal.
Lipids (fats)
Lipids in food can come from both animal and plant sources. Fats and oils not only create a pleasant taste but also provide high energy and help absorb vitamins A, D, E and K – vitamins essential for children's development. Standard school meals combine both oil and fat, such as fatty meat, fish fat, butter, milk, cream, egg yolk… or vegetable oil, peanuts, sesame…
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Vitamins and minerals
Vitamins are a group of organic substances present in the body in small amounts but extremely important, with a strong effect on human development. Vitamin deficiency causes many serious metabolic disorders.
All vitamins are necessary for children, especially vitamin A and vitamin C, which are abundant in foods such as meat, eggs, fish, shrimp, liver, heart, … These are also foods that effectively supplement minerals for the bones and other parts of the body. Therefore, a standard school meal menu must regularly include foods such as shrimp, crab and fish to provide the minerals children need for comprehensive development. In addition, meals need vegetables, tubers and fruit, which not only provide the necessary vitamins but also create nutritional balance for students.
Why choose STAVI as your school catering provider in Hanoi?
Sao Viet Nam Production Trading Service Co., Ltd (STAVI CO., LTD) is one of the leading companies in the food sector, specialising in providing school catering in Hanoi, industrial catering for factories and labour export centres. STAVI has many years of experience in the trade and has established its reputation and professionalism with domestic customers. STAVI's mission is to bring students delicious, quality, safe, hygienic and fully nutritious meals. It is also our joy and pride that, through the meals our company provides, children can develop fully both intellectually and physically, to become the future owners of the country.
To date, STAVI has continuously improved the quality of its service in every industrial meal for schools. STAVI is currently honoured to be a close, long-standing partner of 50 domestic customers, providing more than 420 thousand safe industrial meals every year. Our goal is to become the No. 1 industrial catering provider in Vietnam by 2025.
To satisfy customers and earn recognition from partners, we always guarantee the following important standards:
Ensuring food safety and hygiene in school meals
Food safety and hygiene in industrial catering for schools is always the top priority, whatever the dish and whatever the preparation process. As a service provider directly related to consumer health, especially for children of school age, we understand our role and responsibility in maintaining and ensuring product quality.
Our food intake process always ensures hygiene and safety with a strict control procedure before storage and preparation. The food we prepare is clean food, free of toxic ingredients and preservatives that are harmful to people.
Image: Product liability insurance certificate
STAVI holds a full set of certificates: a food safety management system certificate, a product liability insurance certificate and a certificate of eligibility for food safety.
Image: STAVI holds full food safety and hygiene certificates
Our storage process meets hygiene standards, and 100% safe ingredients are certified by the Food Safety and Hygiene Authority. For every dish prepared and served to customers, the kitchen staff in charge at STAVI are responsible for keeping food samples for 24 hours as required by regulations. Chefs and staff are properly trained, knowledgeable about food safety and hygiene and follow safety procedures correctly.
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In addition, we pay great attention to the facilities of our industrial kitchens, which must be clean and fully equipped, such as:
- The cooking system is designed as a closed-loop, one-way kitchen to avoid clutter and contact between raw and cooked food, ensuring food safety and hygiene during preparation.
- The drains and gutters in the industrial kitchen area are always kept clear, with no standing water that causes odours or attracts insects.
- Meal trays, bowls and chopsticks are dried after every use.
- Refrigerators and freezers run at full capacity 24/7, keeping food fresh, delicious and clean.
- The water used for food preparation is 100% clean.
Image: Separate preparation and cooking areas
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School meals with guaranteed nutrition
Students are at an age of both physical and mental development, so adequate nutritional content in school meals is very important. Understanding this, STAVI has nutrition experts who design and advise on nutrition through menus suited to the children's age. Depending on each age group, including primary, lower secondary and upper secondary students, we have a separate portion standard for each meal.
STAVI balances the nutrient groups in every meal, combining a wide variety of foods with a sensible composition of nutrients, ensuring all 4 important food groups are covered:
- The starch (glucide) group: cereals such as rice, rice vermicelli, pho noodles, corn, sweet potatoes... These are all foods in the cereal group, which provide starch (for energy) and are also a good source of fibre.
- The protein group: prepared from animal sources such as pork, beef, chicken, duck, Muscovy duck…, or from fish, sea fish, eggs, shrimp and crab; and plant-based foods such as beans, pulses, peanuts and sesame.
- The fat (lipid) group: such as fatty meat, fish fat, butter, milk, cream, egg yolk… or vegetable oil, peanuts, sesame…
- The vitamin and mineral group: green vegetables and yellow-red tubers and fruit providing vitamin A, vitamin C and fibre. Vegetables and fruit are guaranteed fresh and not bruised. Industrial meals for schools regularly include foods such as shrimp, crab and fish to provide the minerals children need for comprehensive development.
Image: Nutrient-rich industrial meals for schools
Ensuring a varied menu that never gets boring
One of the things that concerns and worries schools is repetitive, unchanging menus that make students lose their appetite. In the long run, this leaves many major consequences, such as children skipping meals or feeling pressured when mealtime comes. Understanding this, schools that come to STAVI will experience a completely different service. STAVI's chefs plan industrial catering for schools menus that vary by day, ensuring no repetition within a week, including main dishes, rice, vegetables and fruit, and dessert. So the meals are always appealing to students, even those who are fussy or picky eaters. When children enjoy their food more, they are in good spirits and full of energy, ensuring good health for studying and development.
Image: Varied school catering menu
Ensuring attentive and responsible service
We always put the customer at the centre; customer satisfaction is the key to STAVI's success today. "Attentive - Dedicated - Responsible" is always the guiding principle for how we work with every customer.
Every day, STAVI strives step by step, working with passion and responsibility to improve the meal benefits for our customers. We always listen to the requests, comments and feedback of users after every service so that our school catering service becomes a trusted and preferred brand in schools throughout Hanoi as well as other provinces and cities.
Image: STAVI's attentive and dedicated school catering staff
Portion standards in STAVI's standard-compliant school meals
We all know that each age has different eating and nutritional needs; depending on the age of the students, the daily nutritional requirements need to be appropriate for the body to develop healthily. Therefore, nutrition in schools is a top priority. Understanding this, school catering provider STAVI has been and continues to strive to accompany every school so that meals become ever more nutritious.
Portioning industrial meals for schools is the process of determining and building a menu that meets the nutritional needs of students and fits the set price. Please refer to the standard portions for the latest school meals currently applied by STAVI:
Image: Standard school meal portion table at STAVI
STAVI school catering company - The perfect choice for our customers
Sao Viet Nam Production Trading Service Co., Ltd (STAVI) is one of the leading providers of industrial catering for factories, offices and schools in Vietnam. To date, the STAVI brand is present nationwide with 3 main facilities in Hanoi, Quang Ngai and Ho Chi Minh City, 9 facilities of various sizes, more than 50 loyal customers and 420,000 safe meals every year.
With the ambition of becoming the leading industrial catering provider in Vietnam, we always focus on quality and maintain a strict control process to deliver the most perfect service to our customers.
For advice on Tasty - Clean - Fully nutritious school catering in Hanoi, “CONTACT US NOW” on hotline 0917 32 5858 STAVI!
