The catering facilities have been refreshed and a new menu incorporated to create a more relaxed, retail-style environment.
Having updated the kitchen serving area, a Teppan Grill has been introduced to offer a new range of stir-fry style lunches. Feedback from the students has confirmed that they like the speed of the serving and the freshness of the food; they also feel that it is healthy and therefore appealing.
In addition, a Coffee Republic counter, which serves a range of freshly-made coffees, has been launched for sixth form students to use throughout the day.
Dave Alexander, head at Rednock School said it was prompted to update its catering offering in line with the general achievements of the school: “We needed to make a step change to attain excellence in the catering facilities, in line with the ambition to achieve excellence in school provision,” he explained.
“We also noted the importance of healthy eating for our students as part of their general well-being. With this in mind we ran a tender process and Innovate came out top in terms of food quality, the desire to be the best, their general client rapport, together with recommendations from ten other schools. It’s been excellent working with Innovate and the buzz in the café at breaks and lunch time is fantastic.”
Since Innovate came on board the take up of school meals has gone up 28%, with an average of 800 students and staff now using the facility on a daily basis. “The feedback has been very positive indeed,” said Dave Alexander. “Innovate is very professional and its team serves up tasty, affordable meals. They are inventive in their approach.”