Cucina's Halloween Specials make food fun.
There is nothing scary about healthy food according to school catering company Cucina – unless of course it’s Halloween.
Catering experts decided to prepare some spooky surprises for students and staff at their 37 contracted school restaurants throughout England as a Halloween treat.
When customers reached the food counters on Monday 31st October they were offered the chance to try some truly gruesome cauldron concoctions, such as meatballs with pasta ears, boiled and burnt corn on the cob, roasted pumpkin salad with candied pumpkin seeds and even witches potato fingers. They even got the chance to try some frightful but delicious desserts like chocolate brownie headstones and scary spider web waffles with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce.
Steve Quinn, managing Director of Cucina said:
“It’s important to us to make healthy food fun and it’s even better when it’s themed. Both our customer and chefs had great fun with the Halloween menu introduced as a special treat for the day”.
Catering staff at some schools even dressed up, serving students as other worldly characters such as vampires and corpse brides.
Head Chef, Andy Wilcock, from Teddington School in Middlesex commented:
“We had a very successful day which was enjoyed as much by the staff as the students! All the catering staff had great fun dressing up and decorating the canteen”.
Cucina Restaurants Ltd. serves fresh food to 50,000 pupils at 36 contracts up and down the country and is committed to providing quality, healthy meals at all schools. The School Food Trust has just chosen a case study about how it does this for its web site.
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1 – Healthy food doesn’t have to be scary – unless it’s Halloween of course
2 – Catering staff dress up at Middlesex School.
Cucina Restaurants Ltd. was founded by Steve Quinn, a food and support services professional with 26 years experience within the industry, working with international hotel groups such as Rank, Thistle, Hilton and Concorde (in France), as well as contract catering firms Sodexho (formerly Gardner Merchant) and the Compass Group. Steve works with a team of top chefs and professionals to ensure that his vision of great food is truly embraced and delivered.
Cucina provides restaurant quality food and have installed professional chefs to run its operations at the new contracts.
All food is made from scratch in Cucina’s kitchens with chef theatre, ranging from homemade breads, fresh soups, delicious yoghurts, wholesome sandwiches and salads to fresh pizzas baked in professional pizza ovens. Cucina even makes their own tomato ketchup and mango chutney and are constantly updating their menus incorporating ‘stealthy eating’ and fresh ingredients to keep pupils and staff happy at all restaurants.
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www.marketingprojects.co.uk/news/cucina/news/recipes-from-cucina
The School Food Trust has published a case study about Cucina’s work ‘Cucina Catering – inspiring dissatisfied students to give school meals a try again’. It is published at:
http://www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk/school-cooks-caterers/case-studies/topic/16/increased-uptake-financial-success/5/0/cucina-catering-inspiring-dissatisfied-students-to-give-school-meals-a-try-again
Steve Quinn is a consultant on the School Food Trust’s Caterer’s Forum. More information at: http://www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk/school-cooks-caterers/for-school-cooks-caterers/caterers-forum
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