A Day in the Life of a Cook Supervisor
Hello, I am one of the cook supervisors, and I am very busy working hard to make sure your lunch is ready on time. My staff help me, but do you know what we do all day?
1. First job of the day is to open up the kitchen and let all the staff in, otherwise there would be no one to cook your dinners!
2. I might have a big lorry arrive, full of food I need for cooking your lunch. Lots of work unloading the food, putting it away in the fridges and freezers.
3. I might have to do some breakfasts, some schools do provide a breakfast for pupils, does yours?
4. I look at the menu for the day, and have to help my staff start preparing the food. We could be making a pie, preparing vegetables or rice or salad.
5. If your school has a tuck shop, I will have to find some time to get out all the fruit and snacks that we can offer.
6. Once all the food needed for lunch is ready the cooking is next, into the oven, on the hob – hot work, I have to be very careful not to burn myself and I have to make sure it is all ready at the right time.
7. Of course, you will all need somewhere to sit down, a table to eat at and a tray, plate and cutlery, so we have to get the dining hall ready for you.
8. When we have finished cooking and preparing the food, it has to be laid out so you can see what tasty lunches are ready for you to choose from.
9. I try and have a quiet cup of tea before the lunch time rush starts.
10. Then I have to help my staff serve all our children.
11. Now the hard work really begins, we have to clear up and do the mountain of washing up, put the tables and chairs away and clean up the dining hall.
12. Before I can go home I will have to make sure all my paperwork is done, which is a bit like homework or class work – it has to be done. If I do not do this I might get in a muddle, order the wrong food for your lunches the next day, that would not be very funny would it?
13. Home time, I am rather tired having made lots of children happy with a nice school lunch.
