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More lasagna and less soups, water in a bottle instead of a jug, plates with three compartments to serve the first, second and garnish together. And maybe a adjust prices which could also affect families. This is how the school canteen changes in the time of Covid. Pending the official reopening, catering companies are organizing and fine-tuning plans to serve meals in the surroundings 3.5 million students, mostly from kindergartens and primary schools where, full-time, food is always included. “Since February 24 we have been thinking about how to change the catering – explains Stefano Barassi, school director of Elior, which provides 100,000 meals a day in some 400 schools throughout Italy, especially in the north – We had to prepare different dynamics based in type of school: where there will be space to ensure distance, the boys will go to the dining room, perhaps in two or three shifts.
Takeaway
In other cases, there will be lunch box: At the beginning we also wondered what it could consist of, but it is clear that we cannot give a sandwich or a cold meal for 180 days a year ». Hence the idea of modifying menus and creating most unique dishes, in which to combine cereals, proteins, vegetables, avoiding soups: «They have been practically eliminated, they are difficult to serve and eat, they can be spilled or dirty. Better a lasagna and a fruit ”, continues Barassi. Confirms Francesco Malaguti, president of Camst, a company of 250,000 meals a day: «I menus will be partially revised, respecting the nutritional balance, with sometimes simplified recipes. The single pre-packaged portion will not necessarily be used. ‘
The plate
“Meal distribution can also be done with the classic dish, by means of thermal trolleys run by the canteen staff in accordance with security protocols»: Therefore, in some schools the distribution of food will be done directly on the desk, if it cannot be carried out in the dining room for reasons of space. The assistant will give the child the first plate and, after collecting it, the other plates. Food containers will change too, again based on the requests of the Municipalities, which enter into contracts with the companies: in some cases the administrations have assumed the additional costs, for example asking for compostable cutlery and disposable plates; in other cases, ecology has given way to practicality. Even serving water has become a topic: the classic pitchers can only be used in the canteen and covered with a lid, and the operators will have to pour the water to the children if necessary. In some cases, individual plastic bottles will be used, in others ai distributori «contactless» where children can refuel by filling their water bottles and without touching any buttons.
The risk of increases
Costs are likely to increase by 20-30%, for the staff employed to distribute the meals outside the dining room and, in some cases, to clean before and after, but also for the devices and security measures: this year perhaps the municipalities can be commissioned because they have saved the costs of school canteens in the closing months, but in the next few years it is not certain that they will be able to absorb them. «Naturally, the remodeling of the service will mean an increase in costs, in terms of personnel and security devices, which they will not have to overburden companies they are already coming from a period of crisis and less so for families ”, agrees Carlo Scarsciotti, president of Oricon, Observatory of collective catering and nutrition, which groups together 5 companies in the sector and covers around 45% of Italian schools. But the objective remains unique: “We will try to guarantee the same service that students are used to, with high quality standards and correct nutritional intake.”
September 6, 2020 (change September 6, 2020 | 23:44)
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