They carry all month having patiencebut this Monday, September 30they couldn’t take it anymore, and in the dining room of the Public early childhood and primary school Catalina de Foix of Mayor of Zizur they did not serve the second course At children And girls.
First there was zucchini pureeand second loin steaks. “The meat was rawbut to an unimaginable limit. They didn’t even serve it”, so today, “the children came by hunger“because” he was inedible“; but this is not the first time this has happened.
That’s how they say it families from the center, which indicate that this year, with the change of the business who serves the restoration at school are “deeply unhappy“.
This Monday, the school sent a communication At parents in which they explain that “we have worked with the new catering company throughout the month of September, being patient and understanding, but today we inform you that we have withdrawn the second dish that reached us”.
As they explain, the meat dish “didn’t even have the temperature appropriate which stipulates the regulationsand it wasn’t cooked properly either.
So they informed the parents that today they were “only” going to eat entranceunless “depending on the team” they replace the second course, which ultimately did not happen.
From the school they assure that the complaint was filed with the department of Education” and that this is not the first complaint they have received. Likewise, they emphasize that there are already several complaints that they have reported and that they made sure “to be aware of them”, to end by saying that “we will continue to require that food reaches the necessary temperature and with the quality this should be required.
The problem is not just the temperature of the foodunderline the parents of the children registered at the center. “Every day is a movie different in the dining room. » Thus, they report that “the puree is often accompanied by strands vegetables that cause rejection in children.
Likewise, they emphasize that the fish “they serve it with a lot the thorns“and there were times when the monitors They didn’t give it to the children because “they are not responsible for what might happen if they choked on a thorn.”
They say that the fruit which are used by children, when it is not stale, it is “terribly Green and it lasts” and the children “even have difficulty chew it“.
A mother tells Navarra.com that recently they were served “a chicken that it was very poorly cooked” and that, although they served it to children, it bordered on the limit between raw And cooked“And apparently the kids said the part that stuck to the bone of the chicken leg” was like blood“.
But the drop What broke the camel’s back was the back of the pig which served them this Monday. Apparently it was raw and cold, so the school decided to return it and put the claim.
THE school canteens public schools fall directly under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education of Government of Navarrawho launches a call for tenders concession of service to different companies depending on the area where the school is located.
For this course 2024-2025 The winning company for the Zizur public school canteens is the company Aramarkwho recently sent a letter to the center’s parents through the school stating that they were happy to be in charge of “managing the food service of their school cafeteria” and explained that it is a business which adapts “to the requirements established by the Department of Education of Navarre”.
In the letter he spoke of his menus They are “configured by dietitians-nutritionists” and, “before being served, they are examined by the dietitian of the Government of Navarra”.
The company said it only uses “products costs and of superior qualityoriginal local“and that their recipes and methods of elaboration “they are varied and respectful of the gastronomic traditions of the region” to achieve “the maximum acceptance of all foods by schoolchildren, focusing particularly on those that cost the most, such as vegetables or fish.
The parents claim that they are not aware of any acknowledgment of receipt of the complaints presented so far, neither from the company nor from the Department of Education of the Government of Navarra.
Meanwhile, today the children left the class with hunger. They ate a simple zucchini puree, and that, in a service self-respecting public, it is intolerable.
