King Solomon Academy Catering Tender.

Descriptions

Situated in Penfold Street London King Solomon Academy (KSA) is part of the Ark Network of Academies.Ark is a network of high-achieving, non-selective schools and one of the country's top-performing academy groups. The network has 31 academies in London, Birmingham, Portsmouth and Hastings, educating around 17 400 pupils.The catering service at KSA currently operates in-house and cannot be described as a traditional school cafeteria service.The main ‘production kitchen’ supplies a Family Style lunch to three main dining rooms; Primary Sector, Years 7 to 9 and years 10 to 13.There are no conventional cafeteria counters in any of the dining rooms and food is delivered in hot trolleys to each dining room. Thereafter students and staff ‘self help’ and eat a Family Style Lunch in the senior dining rooms and the Primary Sector are served to table by Lunch Time Assistants.There are no cash tills as all students have to pre-pay for (except free meal students) and use the service at Morning Break (which is a light snack) and Lunch. Therefore the pricing for this tender will be based around a cost per meal rather than gross margin.The Academy has roll is slit as follows:— Reception to year 6, 420 students.— Secondary Years 7 to 11, 318 students.—Sixth from years 12 and 13, 113 students (September 2015).