POSITIVE EXPERIENCE OF ORGANIZING CATERING IN EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS OF PODOLSK

Abstract

Healthy nutrition exerts positive impact on quality of life and life span of people laid during the foundation period of the organism in the children and teenage years, i.e. when all children and teenagers go to pre-school and school. The article provides information about catering organization in education institution in certain entities of the Russian Federation. Catering services rendered in the traditional format used in regions were compared with the board format realized in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Positive sides of the traditional system of catering for children and teenagers in education institutions were illustrated by the work of the Podolsk Group of Catering Services and Whole-Retail Sale. The shift to the centralized making food for supply to education institutions and shutting-down their cooking blocks were recognized as inexpedient. It is grounded by a number of restrictions and problems, including excessive unification of food, impossibility to respond quickly to the customers’ needs and increase in the best-before dates of finished food, which can cause a drop in organoleptic characteristics of food. A threatening problem is security of finished culinary produce, whose infringement, according to RBK, led to food intoxication and serious illnesses in children and teenagers. In this connection the work of the Podolsk administration and the Podolsk Group of Catering Services and Whole-Retail Sale dealing with supply of high quality food can be considered as positive experience.

Keywords

• catering organization
• education institution
• suppliers of catering services
• food security