Food Certificate Mama Food
Certificate Program Purpose & Scope
FHC FOOD HANDLER EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM PURPOSE
Certificates & Food Safety at Mama.Foods
At Mama.Foods, we take food safety and quality standards seriously.
Our kitchen operations are fully licensed and follow provincial health regulations in British Columbia.
All meals are prepared by certified food handlers who are trained in hygiene, allergen awareness, and child nutrition.
We regularly undergo inspections to ensure compliance with health and safety guidelines.
Our suppliers are carefully selected and meet strict standards for freshness and traceability.
From ingredient sourcing to packaging and delivery, every step is documented and quality-checked.
These certifications reflect our ongoing commitment to providing safe, trustworthy meals for children and families.
The Rules of Catering
There are two dates in the caterer’s calendar when all involved feel like giving up, selling up or throwing their hands up in despair. These times are at the end of August and the Christmas and New Year holiday. You feel worn down by the continuous grind of business pressure, never having five minutes respite and problems piling on top of other problems not yet resolved. At all other times of the year we are confident, happy, urbane, smiling and generally full of good cheer. All businesses have their crosses to bear, but in the catering industry with all its complexities we probably get more than our fair share. These problems that are an intrinsic part of running a business are what make it challenging and should be tackled with a philosophical, positive attitude and a readiness to learn. Having said that you can on bad days think that Sod and Murphy are alive and well and perched firmly on either shoulder. Below are some of the things I have learnt through my years in the business. You will recognise some and probably be able to add a few of your own. I am sorry if it sounds a little pessimistic but there is a useful side to pessimism in that if you expect everything to work brilliantly and it doesn’t you will be constantly disappointed. But by expecting the worst and it not necessarily happening is a pleasant surprise – that’s how I keep smiling.
- It is always when there is a lull in dining room conversation that someone drops a tray of glasses in the kitchen.
- Parties booked before eight o’clock will be late, those booked at eight o’clock will be on time, and those booked later will be early. Meaning that with all best planning in the world fifty people will be piling through your door at eight o’clock demanding food and drink and blaming you for bad organisation if they have to wait any longer than two and a half minutes for anything.
- Noise levels in dining rooms increase in direct proportion to the amount of alcohol consumed. The decibel level of the loudest conversation in the dining room is in inverse proportion to the amount of thought going into it.
- The party that decides not to have starters will choose the main courses that take the longest to prepare.
- People become 100% more charming as soon as they have a drink and some food in front of them. It is never the people having the interesting conversation that invite you to join them after dinner.
- Those people who try to economise on their evening will have longer faces than those who splash out.
- If there are candles on the table someone will start playing with the wax.
- If five things go wrong in and evening it will always be to the same table.
- It will always be at the busiest point of the evening that the party of eight ask for eight separate bills and can’t remember what they had.
- The customer is not always right but it’s a jolly good idea to let him think he is.
