PKL Group Press Releases

December 2009 - PKL helps to enhance school meals in Croydon

A pre-fabricated semi-permanent kitchen and dining complex from PKL is being used to feed up to 500 pupils from three schools operated by Croydon County Council until a new permanent facility is built.

The new temporary building, which will be on site for at least five years, is located at Winterbourne Junior Boys School in Thornton Heath and also caters for the nearby Winterbourne Junior Girls School and Winterbourne Infants School. It has replaced a run-down kitchen building that is to be demolished and, eventually, replaced with a new kitchen and dining facility.

The kitchen provides fresh preparation, hot production and cold storage facilities, with space to accommodate over 200 pupils in one sitting.

Pearl Knights from Croydon Council commented: "We used to send food from the kitchen to the Girls' and Infants schools but with the new facilities we are now able to bring the girls to the kitchen to eat. The new kitchen is also better equipped than its predecessor, so we have more scope to enhance the meals in line with best practice for school meals".

Procured through the Buying Solutions agency, the PKL kitchen has been supplied on contract hire basis, so that PKL takes responsibility for maintaining and, if necessary, replacing the equipment.

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