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Need help with your School Canteen and can’t afford the onsite consultant?

Need some help fast tracking your canteen procedures and processes?

Need some help training your staff but without the big costs?

Needs some idea of what well performing canteens are doing and how to go about it?

Want to be exceptional?

Then the guide to Canteen and Tuckshop management is for you!

It contains stacks of up to date, comprehensive information, templates and drafts in electronic form, all easily altered for your canteen. Each section comes with multiple appendix. This means you don’t need to reinvent the wheel and no longer need to develop your own. Just rebadge these ones!

If your canteen is ok but you want to move to good or you’re at good and want to move to great or you are at great and want to move to awesome, then the “how to” is in here. It is written at a national level but weighted for QLD

The section headings are-

1.The Purpose of a canteen

2. Time Management Tips for Canteen Managers

3. Nutrition

3.1     Greening Your Menu

3.2     Having a Healthy Eating Policy

3.3     Homebake

3.4     Food Allergy and Intolerance Management

4. Menu

4.1     Setting Menu Prices

4.2     Minimise your menu choices

4.3     Portion and Costing Control

4.4     Simple Steps to Portion Control

4.5     Instruction Cards

4.6     Boosting your Gross Profit

4.7     How to Cost your Goods

4.8     Pricing each menu item using mark-up or gross profit formula

4.9     How to Determine your Operating Costs as a Percentage

5. Healthy and Profitable Theme Days

6. How to be Exceptional

6.1     Offer catering

6.2     Raise the Profile of Your Canteen

6.3     Constantly monitor performance

6.4     Boosting Online Ordering

6.5     Upgrading the Canteen

6.6     End of year

6.7     For the Canteen Manager - make the Principal your new best friend!

6.8     For the Canteen Manager - Being part of the community.

6.9     Top Ten Canteen Tips

7. Food Handling

7.1     Food Handling Guidelines

7.2     Food Storage

7.3     Personal Hygiene

7.4     Temperature records

7.5     Ensuring Compliance

8. Stock Control

8.1     Keeping track of Wastage

8.2     Stocktaking

8.3     Managing Suppliers

9. Cleaning and Maintenance

9.1 Cleaning tips

9.2 Cleaning schedules

9.3 Waste disposal

9.4 Vermin control

10. Keeping track of Equipment and Appliances

11. Finance

11.1   Recording Daily Takings

11.2   Weekly Snapshot

11.3   Reporting to your Committee

11.4   End of Day Banking

11.5   Incorrect money

11.6   Staff Accounts, Discounts and Voids

11.7   Petty Cash

11.8   Preparing & storing the Float

11.9   Cash Registers

11.10Purchase Orders

11.12 Theft in the canteen

12. Safety and Administration

12.1 Keeping track of accountable documents

12.2   Gifts and Rewards

12.3   Incident reporting

12.4   Policies and guidelines

12.5   Signing in and out

12.6   Keeping timesheets

12.7   Phone use

13. Staffing the Canteen

13.1   Recruiting paid staff

13.2 Key Attributes of a Canteen Manager

13.3 Manager Qualifications

13.4 Process to recruit and employ paid staff

14. Volunteers

14.1 Barriers to volunteering

14.2 Strategies to encourage and maintain involvement

14.3 Establishing contact

14.4 Developing volunteer flyers

14.5 Volunteer roles outside the canteen

14.6 Saying thanks

14.7 Ways in which other schools have valued their volunteers

14.8   Can students volunteer in the Canteen ?

15.0 Canteen Growth Opportunities

15.1 Growth plan

15.2 Harnessing the help of your P&C.

15.3 Fundraising

16. Handy links

Appendix of templates, drafts, samples and more

Filed Under: The Word in the Kitchen

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