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
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