How can you ensure you are getting value for
your money?
CS SolutionsLtd give you value for money because:
1. We help you reduce your catering subsidy.
2. We cover food hygiene and safety.
3. We quantify all catering related costs.
4. Your catering supplier can only then return added value!
Through benchmarking catering suppliers and all facilities our bespoke programme impacts:
Catering subsidies and costs
Employee standards
Compliance and Employee welfare related risk...
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Remember: Benchmarking employee welfare standards should be your priority because as the employer and
duty holder you are held responsible for compliance.
: Whatever your catering related costs you can save money by reducing the catering subsidy.
: You have a duty of care for your employees welfare!
Surely my caterer is responsible for benchmarking food hygiene and safety?
- Your caterer regulating themselves or organising their own policing of standards through their choice of independent catering consultant is clearly not appropriate for so many obvious reasons.
- With truly independent hygiene assessment audit results and recommendations you ensure you are in control of catering related costs, and without increasing your workload.
- Food hygiene assessments safeguard you as the employer because they introduce controls that are tangible and measurable relating to food hygiene and safety, plus catering related costs... Importantly with minimal time and effort on your part!
To list a few financial incentives...
1. When benchmarking employee welfare standards you can then reduce catering
subsidy and all catering related costs:
When you increase patronage of your facilities the cheaper the cost to you per head.
Typical examples of low patronage due to lack of control:
a. Ineffective promoting of the facilities; everything has become routine, the novelty is gone;
employees have simply lost interest.
b. Facilities are not used because of poor standards.
c. No obvious deterioration point; but catering standards have dipped (along with patronage) since the
catering supplier was introduced.
2. Data strengthens your position when negotiating catering terms:
Audit data helps you reduce caterer subsidies. A hygiene assessment introduces further currencies for
negotiating improved terms with existing catering contracts.
This impacts catering suppliers, deep cleaners, pest control or water dispenser and operated vending suppliers.
It's very hard to justify a performance catering related costs increase when being independently audited.
3. You improve all round employee welfare management efficiency saving your time:
Your report sets specific best practice guideline goals ensuring your contact with suppliers then has clear purpose.
You save time by improving your efficiency! Your time costs your business money.
4. Food safety standards possible litigation along with production days lost directly due to food poisoning?
Production days lost by your business loses per year due to employee food poisoning? It's more common than you may think!
Even taking into account that most food poisoning is never reported; it is acknowledged that typically 1 in10 cases are reported with UK stat's showing around **80,000 reported cases of food poisoning per year.
Actual levels vary between 850,000 as officially estimated by the FSA (Food standards agency) up
to **1.2 million as estimated by leading experts.
**The Food Safety Handbook (Level 2) states actual levels are 1.2 million!
5. Re-tendering contracts: This is an avoidable and totally unnecessary expense:
With either in-house caterers or contract caterers if catering subsidies have reduced and measured targets & standards are being met you won't have to re-tender contracts!
Poor catering standards, employee complaints and a high catering subsidy inevitably result in the re-tendering of catering supply contracts. This involves a lot of time, hassle and subsequent additional cost to your business whether carried out internally or via catering consultants.
Improving your control is a simple alternative and a significantly cheaper option. It is also a much better use of your purchasing departments time!
6. Business performance improves when general standards improve:
There is a correlation between poor employee welfare standards and poor employee performance.
Increase employee performance and you've increased productivity.
Increase employee productivity you have an immediate impact on overall business profit.
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Benchmarking employee welfare standards; could it impact the catering suppliers negatively?
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While it is appreciated that this maybe about supporting your catering supplier or vending operator in summary it’s important to note the following:
If you share results with your catering suppliers you remove the opportunity for future excuses; you also give them more confidence because all dialogue has purpose and issues are resolved before they become
unmanageable.
You reduce catering related costs as you increase patronage. The report is a valuable additional currency for
catering supply contract negotiations ensuring catering related costs are kept to a minimum!
Your retention of existing catering suppliers is improved because minor issues are clearly resolved long before they escalate into expensive problems which in turn reduces your workload.
And finally do not forget your duty of care...
As the employer you have a duty of care; as such you are ultimately held responsible for employee welfare!
Food safety hygiene standards are a significant part of employee welfare:
Once you can demonstrate due diligence you've ensured control.
To establish your site employee welfare standards statistical benchmark score tel: 0151-929 3273 or complete the simple CS SolutionsLtd questionnaire on the Contact us page.
