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Should I Contract?
Critical Issues You Face Every Day
As a Corrections professional, you’re up against it every hour of every day. 
- Officer Turnover
- Soaring Health Costs
- Security and Safety of Inmates and Staff
- Budget Issues
- Litigation
- Re-Entry and Transition Programs
The Solution To Your Problems Could Be In Your Kitchen and Commissary!
Deciding whether to contract food service or commissary operations in your facility can seem so complicated that you might have already decided not to decide. Although it may not currently be among your top concerns, food service and commissary partnerships have nearly unlimited potential to help you address issues that are a priority to you. You may also discover that contracting is much simpler than you might expect.
Finding the right food service or commissary partner can help you to allow your staff to focus on what they were trained to do and do best – managing offenders and security. Partnering can be the source of thousands of dollars of savings that can be reallocated for other uses in your facility. Partnering also gives you access to programs that will be invaluable as your staff contends with inmate behavior modification and strives to increase officer morale.
Creating a partnership is easy. In fact, more than a thousand state and county Corrections leaders have made the switch to food service and commissary contracting and more than 30 more will make the decision this year. Food Service and commissary contracting helps:
Improve Organization Focus on What is Really Important
- Hiring and retaining quality staff and officers, not cooks and delivery clerks
- Purchasing the best equipment for Security, not bread and candy bars
Reduce Risk
- Forget about food quality issues, inventory losses, and commissary delivery
- Let food and commissary professionals handle nutrition requirements and grievances
- Let specially trained experts manage documentation for state and local agencies
Add Outside Expertise
- Allow registered dietitians administer the latest food handling protocols, and create menu and recipe solutions
- Delegate food ordering, inventory management, and distribution hassles to supply chain experts
- Rely upon processes that reduce waste, insure nutrition standards are met, control tray portions, and get inmate orders correct and delivered as required
Leverage Contractor Assets
- Gain the purchasing power of one of the nations largest buyers of food and commissary products
- Claim the peace of mind that comes from the consistent availability of products, and assured quality and safety of accredited suppliers
Reallocate Budget
- Free up your budget so that you can spend in areas that can use it most
- Discover ways that a contractor can make capital investments in your kitchen and commissary infrastructure
Because every Corrections organization is unique, your issues may not be exactly the same as the national averages. And if they are the same issues, they are likely to change over time. These results underscore our belief that if a vendor wants to be a true partner, they must provide more than a basic service to their client. As a partner we aspire to provide solutions to the issues that keep you up at night. That’s our goal.