Resources

Looking After Our Kids

Looking After Our Kids is a video and handbook resource for school principals, parent bodies, canteen managers, canteen assistants and volunteers to help them understand and comply with the Food Safety Standards.

Everyone working with food has a personal responsibility to handle food safely. This video and handbook information package has been designed to help people involved with school canteens understand their legal responsibilities.

The video is set in real school canteens and follows the food from delivery to sale. The practices shown apply to all school canteens whether large or small, new or old.

This resource, an initiative of FOCiS Inc and funded by Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, was supplied free of charge to all schools in Australia in 2002.

Additional copies may be available from your state school canteen association or health department, local government or public health unit.

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Management $ense, Food Sense

Want to manage your canteen more efficiently and profitably?

Then Management $ense, Food Sense is the manual for you!    

A great new resource with all the information to make your canteen a raging success.

Find out how to:

• Develop your own accounts system for keeping track of stock and money in the canteen. 
• Select good staff. It makes everything so much easier. 
• Choose the right equipment for your canteen and save money. 
• Check if you are up-to-scratch on important food safety issues. 
• Sell healthy foods and make a profit! There are many ideas, recipes and promotional tactics to help you on your way. 
• Attract and keep those VIP's.... volunteers! 
• Develop a canteen policy. Step by step information, samples and surveys from which you can work. 
• Introduce basic security and emergency procedures that every canteen worker should know. 
• Renovate your canteen. Advice to help you make those important and costly decisions.

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Canteen Cuisine

A fabulous recipe book designed especially for school canteens. These tasty and healthy recipes have been created and tested by real school canteens - and the kids just love them!

Sample recipes can be downloaded by clicking the link in the side bar to the right. Each month a new recipe will be available for downloading so make sure you keep checking this site.

If you want your very own copy of Canteen Cuisine please contact your state school canteen association or FOCiS.