Year 6 Catering

Transition Project

Create aCafé

Name: ___________________

Primary School: _________________________

Create a CaféProject

The Brief

A local business in Chesterfield has decided to set up a new café in the town centre. They have asked you to help the new manager of the café to help in the planning. The new café is in a small building in the town centre. The manager would like the café to attract teenage customers who are old enough to meet up with their friends.

Your planning will include ideas for the theme and name of the café, menu ideas and research about food hygiene and safety.

• You must work through the tasks in this booklet to help you to prepare your ideas to show to the café manager.

• You can use a computer to present your work or hand write and draw your ideas directly into the booklet.

Task 1- Theme for your caféYou must first of all decide on a food style and theme for your café, you will find some ideas to

help you on the next page of this booklet Make sure that you consider:

• Current food/café trends• Your target market (teenagers)

1. In the space below create a mood board of your ideas, this can include drawings/sketches and pictures from the internet or magazines.

2. Decide on the theme for your café and the type of food and drinks it will serve

The theme and type of food/drinks that my café will serve

is/are……………………………………

Task 1- Café Theme Ideas

Street Food

Ice-cream Parlours

Vegan and Vegetarian

Food

Health Food

Burger Bar

Afternoon Tea

Pizzeria

Task 2- Name and Logo

Now you have decided on the theme for your café the manager has asked you to choose a name and design the logo that will be used on the sign outside the shop, on the website and on items such as takeaway containers and napkins. The logo and branding is very important for a business. It grabs a customers attention and makes a strong first impression. It can be memorable and separates the business from the competition, think about the logos that are used by some of your favourite foods and restaurants.

1. The name of my café is going to be …………………………………………………………………

2. Design your logo in the space below.

Task 3- The MenuYour next task is to create the menu cards for your café.Make sure you consider:• The age of the customers and what types of food that will appeal to them• Including a range of items relating to your theme so that customers have choice• Some healthy options, use the Eatwell Guide to help with this.• Including items suitable for people with special diets such as vegetarian, gluten free,

food allergies (you may need to look up what these mean)• Including some savoury and sweet items• The types of drinks that you can serve• Advertising any special features of certain menu items

You can design your menu card in the space below.

Task 4- Personal Hygiene

Personal hygiene is very important when working with food. These 6 easy follow rules to help to prevent the spread of germs and food poisoning. Draw lines to match up the rules with their pictures.

Wash your hands with soap

and water before you

prepare any food

Don’t lick your fingers

If you visit the toilet during cooking,

remember to wash your hands afterwards

Cover your clothes with a clean apron

Don’t cough or sneeze over food, use a tissue and then wash your

hands

Keep your hands away from your

mouth, nose and other parts of

your body

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Task 5- Kitchen Safety

1. It is important NEVER to run in the kitchen because:…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. Coats and bags should never be left lying around on the floor because:…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

3. Always take care when using electrical kitchen equipment because:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………......

4. Never walk around the kitchen with a knife in your hand because:

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………......

5. Always remember to turn pan handles to the side, NEVER leave them sticking out because:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………......

6. Always use oven gloves to pick up hot dishes because:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………......

7. NEVER carry hot dishes around the kitchen because:……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………......

8. Always switch the cooker off after using it so that: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………......

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When working in any kitchen safety is extremely important. Complete the following sentences:

Task 6- Hand HygieneWhen working with food hands should be washed at various times to control the spread of harmful food poisoning bacteria.These times include:• After handling raw meat, vegetables, poultry, eggs or fish• After touching face or hair• After using the toilet• After coughing• After handling rubbish• Before touching food or equipment

In the space below design a hygiene poster that could be put up next to the sink in your café’s kitchen to encourage the staff to wash their hands at any one of these critical times

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Day Physical changesBread 1 (dirty hands)

Physical changesBread 2 (clean hands)

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Task 7- Practical ExperimentHere’s a practical task to prove the importance of what you have learnt in Task 6.

You will need:2 slices of bread2 clear food bags or cling film.

1. Label the plastic bags- 1 dirty hands and 2 clean hands2. Without washing your hands, get a piece of bread and put it in the first see-through plastic

bag or wrap it in clingfilm – maybe choose the crust that most people don’t eat! 3. Now wash your hands thoroughly with hand wash for 20 seconds (sing Happy Birthday

twice!!)4. Place this slice of bread in the second plastic bag , seal both bags and place on the window

sill5. Using the table below, record what changes with the bread over the next week.

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ConclusionWrite a few sentences to describe what has happened over the week.

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Task 8- Social Distancing

Unfortunately with the current Covid 19 situation in the UK all of the country’s restaurants and cafes are closed, other than to provide takeaway food and drink services. When cafes and restaurants are allowed to open again business owners will have to think very carefully about how they can do this safely in order to reduce the risk of transmitting the virus between staff and customers.

In the table below make a list of rules/guidelines that the café manager could follow to ensure that the staff and customers are safe. An example has been done for you.

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Rule/Guideline How would this impact the customers?

How would this effect the business?

1 Place café tables at least

2 meters apart

Customers would feel safe and

there would be plenty of room

to move around the cafe

The café wouldn’t be able to fit in

as many tables so they might not

make as much money. They

might need less staff due to less

customers.

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Task 9- Invitation to a Taster Night

The café manager would like you to design an invite to a “Taster Night” at the café to introduce newspaper reporters and food critics to the new venture.

You to design a suitable invite that would get reporters and food critics to come and take part in the evening. (This can be a hand drawn creation or handwritten).

• Think about the type of writing you need e.g. persuasive • What details need to be included?• Would your invite be electronic or printable to post to them? How would you get

replies to know how many of the tasters to cook?• Think about the dates you put on, allowing enough time for a reply e.g. if the event was

on 25th May, you may ask for replies by 18th May.• Would you include images on your invite?

Design your invite in the space below

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Task 10- My Evaluation

1. What have you enjoyed most about this project?

2. In this project I have been good at……..

3. In this project I have struggled most with…..

4. The main things I have learnt from doing this project are…..

5. To improve my work I need to….

6. I think that my work in this project is deserving of a …………. out of 10.

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Extension Task Ideas

1. Describe how your menu suits the Eatwell Guide, explain how you could improve your menu to include more healthy options.

2. Choose one of the items from your menu. Use the Explore Food tool from the Food a Fact of Life website to work out it’s nutritional value

http://explorefood.foodafactoflife.org.uk/

3. Choose one of the items from your menu. Work out the Food Miles of the ingredients in the dish using the Food Miles website.

https://www.foodmiles.com/

Explain how this dish would impact on the environment 4. Research recipes that could be used for your café menu5. Prepare one of the dishes or drinks that you would serve in the café.

Make sure that you have asked for permission from your carer and that you have an adult to supervise you. Try to present your dish as it would be served in the café. Take some photographs of your work to show to your teacher.