alternative food management food and life from a different perspective
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ALTERNATIVE FOOD MANAGEMENT
Food and Life From a Different Perspective
No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up.
Worked with Canteen Services from 1990 to 2011
Began as Food Service Manager at Saginaw County Jail
Opportunity to support different jails
Learned correctional sales
Added Commissary to Food Offerings
Grew Canteen Corrections from 2 accounts to 69 accounts when I left
Opened C Burns Consulting
Developed food proposals for Guam, Virgin Islands companies
Brand Emergency Boxed Meals for Harvest Farms
Cindy Burns….What I do
JAIL FOOD SERVICE IN THE OLD DAYS……
The Sheriff’s wife generally provided the food for the inmates.
If she was a good cook…….everybody won!
If she wasn’t....they all ate a lot of burnt biscuits!
HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THIS OPTION?
WHY CONTRACT
Benefits to the Jail: Cheaper Meals
Trained Staff
Liability Controls:
Meet Diet Standards
Medical Diets
Meals served “On Time—Every Time”
The picture is not a typical inmate meal!
Regular Meal Would Be:
Chicken Patty---3 oz $ .27
Green Beans—1/2 cup .09
Mashed Potato—1/2 cup .09
Chicken Gravy—1/2 cup .04
Wheat Bread—2 slices .11
Margarine Whipped—1 tsp .02
Lime Jello—1/2 cup .06
Kool-Aid type Beverage .02
Total Cost for Food Alone $ .70
SO, I GOT THIS JOB….
Working in Corrections is different! You learn Professionalism
Officers
Other employees
You work with Inmates
People Skills Safety Circle
SO WHAT ARE THE HOURS?
4:30 in the morning to 7:00 at night
Inmates are served three meals a day
2500 calories as an average
No more than 14 hours from supper to breakfast
I HAVE ALL THIS PAPERWORK
In corrections, a diary is important:
Your shiftConcerns with inmatesTemperaturesMedical Diets
SHOW ME THE MONEY
Hourly pay starts out around $ 9.50 an hour
Management can begin at $ 25,000 to $ 40,000
You can begin as an hourly and learn management
OOPS…..I THINK I MADE A MISTAKE!
There are Rules I know, but OOPS… Now What? Please remember, there are No Secrets
in Corrections…… just be honest!
AArRaGh! I can’t believe I did that!
Don’t compareyour life to others’.You have no idea what theirjourney is allabout.
WHO I AM….
I weighed 4 pounds 4 ½ ounces
My Dad died when I was 10
Home life was pretty rough
Got married at 17 to get out of the house
Graduated from Coleman High School
Divorced at 27
I raised two sons as a single parent
Chris is a Neurological ICU Specialist
Jeremy is a Project Manager at Ford
I have 8 Grandchildren
My Grandson lived with me for his senior year so he could graduate. He was living in his car before that
I’ve been fired twice
EVERYBODY HAS GOOD DAYS AND BAD DAYS….
Some days you are the statue and some days you are the pigeon…..
ON- SITE AND EMERGENCY FEEDING
Prepackaged Box MealsStore Frozen—Hand Out Frozen
Packed Fresh to OrderKeep Frozen
Call Cindy at 989-239-3779 or
BOX MEALS—SIMPLE AND HANDS OFF
Ideal for:
TransportOn the Menu FeedingResponse in Time of DisasterAny Trouble with Service
THE HARVEST FARMS—MICHAEL JACKSON CONNECTION
EXPECTATIONS
Perfection…..not!
You learn to expect the unexpected!
MAKE IT HAPPEN
You only get one today
No do-overs
No replays Do your best
YOUR CHOICES + YOUR ACTIONS = YOUR REALITY
DON’T LIKE YOUR REALITY……
CHANGE YOUR CHOICES AND YOUR ACTIONS
Change Change is the essence of lifeBe willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.
AFFIRMATIONS…..BE KIND TO YOU!
Talk to yourself…..
It’s healthy!
No one is perfect: No one!
A FRIEND….Someone who believes in you when you forget to believe
CONNECTIONS
Every friend brings a lesson to you
Every friend learns a lesson from you
When you are in deep trouble, say nothing and act like you know what
you are doing!
MAKE A DIFFERENCE………..JUST ONE!