Purchasing

How can you ensure you are getting value for your money?

CS SolutionsLtd; an employee welfare and catering audit cuts catering related costs:

Your audit helps you reduce your catering subsidy.

Your audit covers food hygiene and safety.

Your audit supplies you with the data needed to take control

Your audit saves you time, you have the data without the hassle!

Bespoke catering audit results enable tighter control, catering suppliers and vending suppliers are statistically benchmarked against best practice and efficiency targets. It's simple, once you have your catering audit template just improve the score, return added value!

Your catering audit checklist includes:

Catering subsidies and costs

Employee standards

Compliance and Employee welfare related risk...

Benchmarking employee welfare standards is a priority because:

1. As an employer you are held responsible for your employee's welfare, as such you are the duty holder and held

responsible for compliance.

2. Save catering related costs by reducing the catering subsidy.

3. Legally your duty of care for your employees welfare includes all catering facilities contracted or in-house!

For more detail visit our Home page or to arrange your catering audit .... Click here.

My caterer has their own food hygiene and safety catering audit: Why should I use independent catering auditors?

Your caterer should not be involved in any way in choosing an auditing consultancy because they have a vested interest. This increases your operational risk leaving you vulnerable Any department - interrnal or external if left to police themselves is open to bias- RENDERING DATA RESULTS WORTHLESS. With an operational free hand the caterer's interests are proritised rather than your own. Great for the caterer but no good for you!
To control catering related costs you need catering audit statistical results from a trully independent hygiene assessment.
A food hygiene assessment safeguards you the employer, introducing a catering audit checklist with measurable food hygiene and safety catering related controls, plus catering related costs... Importantly your catering audit template helps you reduce your time and effort!

Benchmarking employee welfare standards is the first critical stage, you can then impact catering related costs:

To list a few financial incentives...

Increase patronage of your site facilities and you reduce the cost to you per head:
Typical examples of low patronage due to lack of control:
1. Ineffective promoting of the facilities; routine has set in, the novelty is gone; employees have simply lost interest.
2. Facilities are not used because of poor standards.
3. No obvious deterioration point; but catering standards have dipped (along with patronage) since the catering supplier was introduced.
Data strengthens your position when negotiating catering terms:
Catering audit data helps you reduce caterer subsidies. A hygiene assessment introduces further currencies for negotiating improved terms with existing catering contracts.
Your hygiene assessment impacts catering suppliers, deep cleaners, pest control or water dispenser and operated vending suppliers covering all catering related costs.
You improve your control of all employee welfare areas, improved control and better management means efficiency time saving:
You save time by improving your efficiency! Your time costs your business money.
Food safety standards- possible litigation along with production days lost directly due to food poisoning:
How many production days does your business lose per year due to employee food poisoning? It is more common than you may think!
Even taking into account that most food poisoning is never reported UK stat's show 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!
Re-tendering catering contracts: An avoidable and totally unnecessary expense:
Applicable to both in-house caterers and contract caterers; SIMPLE - reduced catering subsidies and improved standards mean no need to tender contracts!

Poor catering standards, employee complaints and a high catering subsidy inevitably result in the re-tendering of catering supply contracts. Time, hassle and subsequent additional cost to your business.

A catering audit is a significantly cheaper option which saves valuable time for your purchasing department!

Fact; employee performance improves when general standards improve.

Improve employee productivity you have an immediate impact on overall business profit!

And finally: could having independent catering auditors on site impact my caterer negatively?

Catering audit results once shared with your catering supplier remove the opportunity for future excuses; you give them more confidence, dialogue has purpose, issues are resolved before becoming unmanageable.
You reduce catering related costs as patronage increases. Your catering audit checklist helps catering supply contract negotiations ensuring catering related costs are kept to a minimum!
Your retention of existing catering suppliers is improved, minor issues are clearly resolved long before they escalate into expensive problems in turn reducing your workload.

Do not forget...

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 arrange a catering audit now Tel: 0151-929 3273 or complete the CS SolutionsLtd questionnaire on the Contact us page.

If you would prefer to carry out your own audit of standards visit the Self audit section of this website.