In the 32 public schools of Terrassa that SERHS Food manages the dining room service and noon space, this 2021-2022 course, the number of different diets that are prepared each day has increased from 49 last year to 62 this year. It is a question of an important number of different diets that are all therapeutic, determined by medical prescription and, also, as a novelty as of October of this year an ovolatile-vegetarian diet is offered for reasons of ethical or personal decision. Along with diets without meat and without fish due to religious reasons.
From the 62 diets that are currently being prepared for the more than 5,000 children who use the canteen service, the number of children who require personalized nutrition has increased, above all, from 22 last year to 37 this year. It is about meeting the specific dietary needs that in some cases involve a combination of different generic diets or there is some intolerance to ingredients such a fructose, which may be for a child on a specific fruit and for another on another fruit, which cannot be taken. Hence the high degree of customization. Also, diabetic diets have been increased as a remarkable fact. All this must be coordinated with the new premises established by the PREME Plan of the Generalitat for schools in which the introduction of vegetable protein in the menus stand out.
“Without gluten, without pork, no meat, no fish, no eggs, hypocaloric, low in cholesterol… each day we make an important coordination and planning work for the public schools of Terrassa among all those involved” says Lourdes Catalá, responsible of dietetics of SERHS Food. She goes on to say that “this high level of customization that is increasing year by year implies a significant effort at the level of professional resources that is compensated by the better satisfaction in the service that we offer to children of all ages when we are in the schools”.
SERHS Food is a Catalan company with more than 40 years of experience and based in Mataró that serves Terrassa since March 2016. The forecast for this school year 2021-2022 is to improve in areas such as those explained above, differentiated diets, as well as in the greater introduction of ecological products, of proximity, increase the training courses in the internal teams and promote the idea of sustainability in the school canteens. In total, the company manages 200 schools throughout Catalonia, Zaragoza and Oviedo, both the food side and the midday space with the different educational project of each center. Individual satisfaction in collective catering is promoted as the main purpose in the pyramid of values of the company from its very origin.
The media have echoed the news! You can see it in the Diari de Terrassa and Terrassa Digital.
