News & Views

The Veganuary campaign is ever growing year on year as the demand for vegan, dairy-free and plant-based diets are the norm for an ever growing customer base, adding new health and environmentally conscious customers to the market share each January. Are you taking on the Veganuary challenge or building it into your offer?

Red Box can provide the expertise and support fully integrated facility management to ensure the catering service and facilities management services within your schools achieve high standards. So how do we do this?

Soil Association Food for Life launches the first ever Food For Life Served Here (FFLSH) Impact Report, revealing the huge impact the independent award scheme has across the UK and showing the Government needs to get serious about buying standards in the sector. The education settings, care homes, hospitals, businesses and leisure attractions who are certified can evidence that the food they serve is audited and are serving fresh, local and honest food with the majority being cooked from scratch.

Food within the independent school marketplace is a cornerstone for parents and pupils. With a focus on nutrition, sporting endurance, welfare and mental health all being attributed to a catering service within your prospectus, the advice from Red Box would be to ensure your dining experience is a positive one. Are you at a crossroads in determining if your facilities should take these services in-house or to outsource? Red Box summarises the two positions.

As Ofsted look to regain lost ground on School auditing, one focus to prove an outstanding school status, is the school lunch provision and healthy eating awareness.

 We are pleased to announce we’re now listed on the Independent Schools'​ Bursars Association!

We often see Client and Contractor relationships breakdown when there is no formal recognition of complaints. Often a break clause allows Clients to leave a contract where continued default occurs, however there are often no formal records of complaints at a unit level which leads to frustration on both sides at management performance meetings. Here Red Box provides a draft complaints procedure to target those niggly issues within your contracted services, ensuring effective, timely responses. It should also provide a robust record where a Client wishes to show contract default or escalate frustrations.

Following a turbulent year in Contract Catering, many of our clients have moved to Cost Plus models or Cost Plus with Guarantees to weather the storm. But what does this actually mean?

LACA members sit at the heart of school food delivery, representing over 3,300 different organisations and individuals, all dedicated to ensuring that our children get the benefits from a healthy, nutritious school lunch.

As taken from the Government online guidance and BBC news report.