Someone was just talking about the food waste in the NHS. I said that the system in our hospital was that patient menu choices are chosen almost a week in advance. This is so the kitchen can order in the exact amount of each portion. My hospital is long stay so the likelihood of the patient still being there in a week is about 95%. If they happen to get discharged or go into another department then yes, that food is wasted but it's a very small amount. Staff usually eat it.
A woman with no experience in the field said to me 'that's a stupid system, they should order it the day before.' So that would be a better system would it, ordering loads of everything and then having too much of one thing and not enough of another, and then having just 4 hours to prepare EVERYTHING!
I've had this so many times, people who don't work in catering telling me how restaurants/ cafes should be run. The best was my ex- manager telling me that she would run a busy cafe using all vintage china (good luck putting those through an industrial dishwasher!)
Is it because it's 'low skilled' that people think they could make a better job at running it than the actual staff? I would never go into a care home and start telling the staff how to do their jobs, or start lecturing an engineer about how to design more effective aircraft.
I just can't fathom how people look at a huge corporation like Subway and think 'oh I could do a better job!'
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To get cross when people with no catering experience think they know more than those who work in the industry?
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ExtraPineappleExtraHam · 20/04/2019 09:38
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