Grove Catering
Grove
has its own independent catering service - Grove Catering
- managed by Claire Murray. In addition to providing meals
for students and staff every lunchtime, the catering staff
also run a very substantial tuckshop at breaktime and before
school, run the snackbar in Grove College, provide ad-hoc
catering services for meetings and conferences held on
Grove Campus and are able to cater for private events held
at Grove.
By operating our own catering service we have been able
to:
The kitchen opens at 7.30am daily offering hot drinks,
filled bacon and sausage baps, yoghurts and breakfast muffins.
There are several areas to choose from at lunchtime. In
the main dining room there is the traditional home made
food and salad servery which offers a large selection of
items including lasagne, roast dinners, spinach and feta
cheese pie with a hot pudding or a choice of home made
cakes and cookies. A full meal and dessert costs £1.70.
The salad counter offers a wide selection of salads – a
pot of salad costs 65p. "Le Bistro" serves a
wide selection of rolls, sandwiches and wraps with pasta
pots and fresh fruit salad and cold drinks whilst an outdoor
servery offers hot and cold snacks, including wraps, baked
potatoes pizza and sandwiches.
Special diets can also be catered for. International healthy
eating theme days have been held in the main dining room
throughout this year, and we are always open to ideas and
suggestions.
Grove Catering fully supports the efforts being led by
celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, for healthier school meals,
This was one of the many reasons why Grove Catering was
launched in 2000. The media has put great emphasis on the
37p cost of a meal. We agree that this cannot produce a
good quality meal. The cost of Grove Catering meals is
the same as the government is now saying should be spent:
60p to 70p per head. Because of the large volume of customers
to be served in a small space of time, we do offer fast
food snacks but the food is sourced from the local butcher,
and farm sausage producer. Pizzas are made using fresh
ingredients.
If you are interested in using
Grove Catering's services, please contact Claire Murray
on 01630 652121.
