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A Survey on the Foodservice Management Practices at Child Care Centers in Gyeonggi Area  

Sohn, Chun-Young (Dept. of Food and Nutrition, Dongnam Health University)
Pak, Hee-Ok (Dept. of Food and Nutrition, Gachon University of Medicine and Science)
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Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life / v.21, no.4, 2011 , pp. 577-586 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was carried out to investigate food service management practices in various operation types of child care center in Gyeonggi area of Korea, and to provide basic information for improving food service management policies at child care centers. Self-administrated questionnaires were collected from 102 child care center directors. The statistical analysis was completed using SPSS ver. 18.0 program. Approximately 97.1% of the directors were women. The number of total children were difference in public, private and home care centers respectively (p<0.001), and time of operation was significantly (p<0.01). Only 8.9% of the centers employed a dietitian, whereas 92.5% of the centers employed cook or assistant cook, thus food service was not managed by professionals in most centers. All of the centers had been self-operated and meals were prepared in a conventional manner. In approximately 89.2% of the centers servings snacks twice a day. Menu planner of the centers which have no dietitian was the child care information center (47.5%) or the director (34.7%). In most centers, the directors was also purchasing manager and 36.0% of the center purchased food every day. These results indicated that food service management guidelines need to be established by the child care center type with the government control and financial support. We recommended that they furnish the efficient food service program for food service management.
Keywords
Child care center; food service management; guideline;
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