Collective catering
Schools

Key values of CIRFOOD school catering

High-quality school catering helps to:

• Foster a food culture that is one of health and well-being;
• Teach the value of food and well-informed consumption habits, beginning with mealtimes;
• Foster a correct approach to dietary habits, one that involves trying out new tastes and flavours;
• Encourage interaction and conviviality.

Our figures

Meals provided:
41 million

Students served every day:
160.000

Municipalities supplied:
438

What we offer and our skills

• Building the future, one meal at a time: our menus have been carefully developed by CIRFOOD’s nutrition experts, including dietitians and nutritionists, with solutions that meet the different needs of girls and boys, including specific diets for health or ethical-religious reasons. This process adheres scrupulously to specifications provided by clients, as well as key guidelines provided by nutritional organisations. These include Reference Intake Levels of Nutrients and Energy (LARN) and Italy’s Regional and National Guidelines for Healthy Eating.
• Learning through eating: we see the school meal as an important opportunity for promoting awareness about food, taste education, informed eating and learning about healthy lifestyles. As a result, we are committed to organising educational activities and projects about the value of food that also encourage pupils to eat with awareness outside the school meal itself.
• Our services are centred around your needs: we provide flexible and integrated solutions, including support in the comprehensive management of in-house kitchens at our clients’ facilities, ensuring they comply with hygiene and safety regulations in full. Our school catering service is designed to meet the needs of both the public and private sector in Italy and abroad, in both small and large-scale organisations.
• Responsability and quality every day: serving hundreds of thousands of meals every day in schools and canteens calls for compliance with the most stringent quality standards. Our production processes and our certification and control system guarantee the highest level of food and health safety at every stage of the service. In addition, we place special emphasis on ensuring the produce used is seasonal, fresh and high quality for tasty, sustainable meals, while striving to reduce our impact on the environment every day.
• Trasparency matters: we believe in the importance of placing clear and accessible information at the disposal of our users and their families. We provide an ecosystem with both physical and digital communication tools to help nourish and nurture trust-based relationships with students, teachers and parents. We share information about our services and their features so that the school catering experience is also extended to the home.