For many years Surrey Commercial Services has provided a catering service to schools in the county; years that have given us a unique understanding of the demands of the education catering business and the needs of our customers.

Every day our catering teams produce in excess of 55,000 meals in education establishments. As a non profit making organisation within Surrey County Council we are in business solely for the benefit of you our customers. We have no shareholders, just stakeholders!

Commercial Services, as part of Surrey County Council, has held the Investors in People award since 1995, and we also hold the Hospitality Assured accreditation.

Our Caterers are well trained: 

• We constantly run training courses for our members of staff.  This not only ensures that our team is well qualified to undertake the task of feeding Surrey's schoolchildren but also fulfils personal expectations and maintains morale throughout the company.
• Every member of staff is trained in Basic Food Hygiene and many of our catering managers have attained Intermediate or Advanced Standard Food Hygiene Diplomas.
• We offer our catering managers and supervisors skills training to help them develop teams. 
• We run Cooks Craft courses at various levels to train staff in practical skills and also nutrition and healthy eating training. 
• Our Bookkeeping course helps catering managers to run their units as small businesses.
• All our staff are trained in Health and Safety and fire safety procedures.
• We have a programme of NVQ training available to our staff
• All our staff are required to complete equality and diversity training

We Take Food Hygiene Very Seriously
In addition to the staff training described above, the Company has adopted a very stringent Assured Safe Catering (ASC) system that sets out procedures to ensure food is prepared in the safest environments possible. Owing to the detail provided in this system, our ASC policy is award winning.