Across various industries, operations, and administrations, catering is a small department and series of incidental expenses rather than a major concern. When focused on efficient resource extraction or enriching education, delivering quality catering is just a necessity to keep the wheels turning, and in this light, outsourcing can begin to look more and more appealing. Here at Cater Care, catering isn’t just a side task; delivering exceptional food each and every time is at the core of who we are, and our expansive work across the aged care, education, and remote work sectors makes us uniquely qualified to support others in doing their best work.
Helping you do what you do best
Prioritise your Expertise
Whether your company specialises in providing comforting aged care, efficient mining solutions, or educating the future of Australia, it serves best to have your talent focus on their core skill sets, not diverting their efforts towards catering. Having qualified metallurgists or registered nurses take the time to dish up hot meals isn’t a strategically viable use of time or resources, and opting to hire and implement dedicated catering staff frees up your core team to focus on doing what they do best.
Smooth and Seamless
Conjoining this team with your own doesn’t have to be a difficult affair, either. An appropriately flexible strategic partner should be able to slot into your operations without disruption and seamlessly begin supporting your existing staff. Cater Care’s extensive work in supporting the operations of nearly a hundred aged care homes, eighty mining camps, forty schools, and retail F&B outlets in airports and hospitals across the nation more than demonstrate our ability to seamlessly integrate with your operations – all without supplanting your original staff, if need be.
Trust in the experts
In safe hands
Maintaining compliance with all the legislation and guidelines governing the handling and preparation of food can be (and often is) a full time job in its own right. Remaining compliant with the vast number of safety guidelines in catering is immensely difficult, even before you begin to account for also remaining compliant with governmental and nutrition requirements alongside compliance needs. If you wish to handle catering internally, you’ll need to establish a compliance division to keep catering operations in check – or to further burden already busy administrative staff with additional duties. Cater Care’s rigorous food safety systems and training ensures the purity of everything leaving your kitchens and the safety of your diners.
Purchasing peace of mind
When outsourcing to a professional caterer, your operation also outsources the risks involved with operating your catering. All compliance work, and the consequences that might occur should your operation fail to meet compliance, will be wholly placed on the shoulders of your catering partner. Cater Care’s stringent safety standards and records ensure we are more than equipped to handle the risk.
Allez Cuisine
Creation through Cuisine
Among an industry focused on cost-cutting and timeframes, Cater Care’s focus on delivering the highest possible quality of fresh and delicious food makes us unique within the market. Our in-house team of dietitians and accredited chefs are focused on consistently raising the bar of nutritional and enjoyable value our food provides, and to drive our continual improvement, we operate a series of programs to improve our food – after all, it’s fresh food, every time.
Nutritional Planning
Cater Care’s ethos of improvement is exemplified by our dining programs. Cater Care’s Healthy Eating Program is an adaptation of the Australian Guidelines for Healthy Eating tweaked to provide maximum nutritional value deployed to all of our sites. Additionally, our Native Flavours and Ingredients program aims to celebrate the rich history and culture of Indigenous Australians by integrating ingredients and styles of cooking into our meals and menus to increase food diversity and cultural awareness.
Pinching those pennies
Stretching the dollar
Across the various sectors that we service, one of the most common reasons cited for initially opting for in-house catering solutions is a fear of costs. Fear that the costs of staffing would bloom out of control; fear that the costs of resources going through a supplier could be artificially inflated, and fear that the costs of entrusting a professional catering solution with their facility would far exceed their value. In reality, working with an outsourced provider often keeps costs and requirements tightly controlled, while attempting to build an all-new catering solution risks experiencing both scope and cost creep.
Throwing our weight around
As we’ve seen time and again, the realities of operating as a lone provider without any major bargaining power can frequently derail these plans. Without the bargaining power that comes with being a larger operation with more disposable capital, independent actors can frequently find themselves paying higher prices in all areas in order to justify the cost of their business to suppliers. When a lone operator partners with a larger catering provider, they gain access to their partner’s bargaining power to drive down supply prices and get the best possible deal for their company or facility.
Streamlining your HR & IR initiatives
The efficient solution
Staffing is already a thorny issue for various industries to handle; staff are a business’s single largest overhead, their greatest asset, and at times, their greatest burden. The issues here can balloon exponentially when considering the issues around attaching a catering solution to an already existing business. Whether it’s a school or a mine site, operation administrators will have to contend with the problem of staffing and whether they want to try and stretch their existing staff into catering roles or to hire a wholly separate body of staff members.
Hammering in productivity
Working with Cater Care removes this issue from the equation entirely. By providing a dedicated pool of experienced and motivated staff, partner operations aren’t left scrambling to find additional pairs of hands or cash down the back of the couch to ensure that meals continue to be plated in a timely fashion. Our partners rest easy in the knowledge that all staffing matters will be handled as a matter of course, and that if catering team members are sick, unavailable, or otherwise excused, the issue will be seamlessly resolved without ever disturbing the client.
Cleaning up the kitchen
Developing an appropriate catering solution for your operation, in whatever form that might take, can be an arduous and expensive process. Between managing logistics, staffing, cost measurements, and every other problem that can potentially crop up prior to and during mobilisation, opting for in-house catering solutions frequently becomes substantially more expensive than initially anticipated. Cater Care’s absolute dedication to delivering a quality dining experience to your residents makes us the ideal fit for removing these concerns from the equation and potentially lowering your operating costs while improving the quality of your catering. If you’re interested in fewer headaches with higher quality catering, reach out to one of our industry experts to learn more about how Cater Care can help you.
For Aged Care:
Jonathan Storer
Client Development Manager – Cater Care
Ph: 0424 175 949
jonathan.storer@catercare.com.au
For Education:
David O’Brien
Client Development Manager – gather by Cater Care
Ph: 0424 190 566
For Remote:
Brad Walther
Client Development Manager
bradley.walther@catercare.com.au
T. 08 9241 2824 M. 0488 745 357
Hayley Steyn
Senior Client Development Manager
T. 07 3851 8425 M. 0429 542 682
