Innovate Services

Surrey, UK: Innovate Services, the innovative school catering operator, is supporting the Sunday Times' Better School Meals campaign, which aims to improve school dinner quality, increase the number of children who eat them and encourage children to learn to cook at school. When Innovate launched in 2007, it was driven by an aim of modernising the... school catering experience for secondary schools, academies and colleges across the UK, and the latest campaign by the Sunday Times echoes the goals of the business, as Derick Martin, CEO of Innovate explains: "When we launched Innovate Services five years ago, it was clear to me that school meals had lost its way over the years. It was stuck in a time warp and wasn't addressing the current needs or wants of the 'customer'- students. Today we are working in over 80 schools, academies and colleges to provide a service that is focused around what students want - not only from a menu perspective, but also in the surroundings and service. We work in partnership with our schools; an approach which delivers a service that typically sees uptake double, if not more, as a result." Continues Derick Martin: "I have been following the Sunday Times' Better School Meals campaign and we fully support what it is aiming to do, which is to ultimately continue improving standards and take-up of school dinners across the country. It is also heightening the awareness regarding the need to improve the contents of lunch boxes that are being brought into schools; which we believe is an extremely important issue." Innovate Services was awarded 'Contract Caterer of the Year' in the Educatering Excellence Awards 2012. To track the progress of the Sunday Times' Better School Meals campaign, visit http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/school_meals/. Alternatively, you can follow updates on Twitter by using the hashtags: #schoolfood #betterschoolmeals. This entry was posted in Uncategorized.Read More