What factors must industrial catering for schools ensure?

What factors must a STANDARD school meal ensure?

Children's daily school meals have long been a worry for parents. Especially at the present time, when food safety problems are appearing more and more often.
Today, every meal must not only fill children up, but must also meet food safety standards and provide the right amount of nutrition in each portion, so that children can enjoy their food, stay healthy and get all the nutrients they need to grow and learn.

Understanding these concerns, STAVI, a reputable and well-known company, has been chosen by schools as their partner for industrial catering for schools that is Delicious - Clean - Safe - Nutritious. STAVI always understands the importance of every meal and every portion for a child's development.

In this short article, STAVI Industrial Catering would like to share with you parents the factors that we always ensure in our school catering. 

Image: STAVI, a popular school catering provider in Vietnam

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Forms of school catering

In today's society, there are many types of catering services, such as industrial catering for factories, restaurant and hotel catering, and so on. Naturally, due to their particular characteristics, the composition and nutritional quantities also differ to a certain extent. For safe school catering, it is not only the ingredients and cooking methods that matter; the process for preparing large quantities is also extremely important.

Currently, school catering is provided in 2 main forms:

- Pre-prepared: In this form, the school catering provider prepares the food according to the menu agreed with the school at its own premises. The meals are then packed in boxes and transported to the school canteen, where the children gather for meals.

- Prepared on site at the school: This is a common form that not only STAVI but other providers are also using. STAVI's staff and chefs come directly to the school and prepare the dishes according to the requested menu.

Note: Whatever the form, STAVI always commits to and ensures " safe school catering " with all the nutrition children need.

Image: Industrial catering for schools: Delicious - Safe - Nutritious

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What factors must safe school catering comply with?

1. Food safety and hygiene

The most important factor in school catering is food safety and hygiene, whatever the dish and whatever the cooking process. This is because food safety and hygiene directly affects children's health and is also the greatest concern of schools and parents.

Therefore, we believe that, alongside the quality of education, schools also need to pay attention to everything from choosing an industrial catering provider to supervising, monitoring and inspecting the preparation process and the quality of the meals. Among catering companies, STAVI is a prime example, having been certified for compliance with food safety standards.

Image: Food safety and hygiene comes first

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2. Nutrition in school meals

Pupils are at an age of both physical and mental development, so adequate nutritional content in industrial catering for schools is very important. Each school meal needs a balance of the nutrient groups in the menu to ensure children's nutrition. Naturally, each grade level will have its own appropriate nutritional quantities.

Image: Complete nutrition in industrial catering for schools

3. A varied school catering menu to avoid monotony

Safe school catering , besides complying with food safety criteria, also needs to offer richness and variety in the menu. A menu that changes from day to day gives children a sense of novelty and excitement and stimulates a better appetite.

Specifically, a school catering menu will include basic criteria such as:

• A varied selection of dishes in each meal.

• Dishes must be prepared to suit children's tastes: not spicy or only mildly spicy, not too salty...

• Another point is that the menu must change daily.

Image: A rich and varied school catering menu

4. Reasonable school meal prices

School catering, industrial catering or any other type of catering must balance nutritional quality against finances. For school catering, portion sizes are smaller than for regular industrial catering, so choosing a menu at a suitable price point is also quite a challenge.

Currently, STAVI offers many nutritious menus for children at different price levels. Schools are welcome to contact us on 024 395 33343 for more detailed advice and support.

Image: School meal prices that suit schools' budgets

STAVI - a reputable and professional provider of industrial catering for schools

With STAVI, you will work with a specialist provider of industrial catering for schools with many years of experience, which has become a close, long-standing partner of large organisations across the country and has earned recognition and high praise from partners for both Quality and Service.

• With passion and dedication, STAVI's chefs always pay close attention to the flavour and nutritional content of every portion, helping pupils develop to their fullest, both physically and mentally.

• STAVI always inspects its ingredients, sourced from clean farm produce, ensuring quality and food safety and hygiene.

• STAVI has been certified for its food safety management system, has qualifying facilities and a team of highly skilled chefs.

• STAVI has a professional service team with a friendly, attentive and trustworthy attitude, ensuring the highest level of professionalism by always delivering on time, as scheduled and to the location that was checked and agreed in advance.

“CONTACT US” on hotline 0917325858 right away for the best advice and support on industrial catering for schools.