Process for reviewing menus from food vendors

1:07:52

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The discussion covers the process for reviewing menus from food vendors for shelter meals.

Sample menus are reviewed during the bid process
More detailed menu reviews occur once a food vendor is selected and ready to serve meals
A DHS nutritionist is responsible for reviewing seasonal menus
The process involves both initial review during bidding and ongoing review during service

Julie Won

1:07:52

Could you share more about potential reviews of the menus for all of our vendors?

1:08:00

I understand that you now have a process for reviewing all the menus before a bid is won, is that correct?

1:08:05

It's before the bid or is it after?

Kate MacKenzie

1:08:07

Perhaps my colleagues can speak directly to the menu review process.

1:08:11

From my experience of look of of contracting processes, you have to demonstrate a sample menu and then when you get into the contracting process, that is when you are working through and agreeing on menus or saying, you know, no to something and yes to something.

1:08:27

But that seasonal menu review that I referenced in the testimony is something that the DHS nutritionist is reviewing.

Jill Berry

1:08:38

Yeah.

1:08:39

That that was the answer.

1:08:41

We get sample menus in the the bid packages that are reviewed, but the the detailed review of the menu is once the food vendor is on board and ready to serve meals, we review those menus in more detail.

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