Central commissary school foodservice operations´ practices and their dietitians´ job duties were assessed and compared with those of their counterpart of conventional school foodservice operations to find out strategies for early settlement and better management for commissary system. Survey questionnaires consisted of general background, employees´ work schedule and dietitians´ job duties. 12 commissary schools(out of 22 existing in Korea) and 77 conventional schools from Kyungkido were participated in the survey.
The results of this study can be summarized as follows:
1. Central commissary school foodservice was presently utilized at 5 schools from islands type, 11 schools from rural type, and 6 schools from urban type, consisting total of 22 commissary schools, and 52 satellite schools.
2. Dietitians were evenly employed with their experiences, 55.5% were those with less than 2 years of experience, 44.6% were those with more than 2 years of experience.
3. Commissary schools employed more full-time employees(1.8±0.7) than conventional schools(0.3±0.5), however as far as the production capacity was concerned, only the part-time employees played significant roles(p<.01). Regardless of the number of students, an absolute number of full-time employees were employed, and their duties were not carried out efficiently. The part-time employees of commissary schools performed more loaded work compared to their counterparts in conventional schools.
4. Out of the dietitians´ foodservice duties, ´basic food service production(3.9±0.7)´ were carried out adequately, whereas ´nutrition education and advertisement(2.5±0.6)´ and ´administrative affairs and information related duties(2.8±0.9)´ were not. In order to enhance their working capacity, systematic organizational reforms are imminent.
5. Survey results also showed that dietitians performed less duties at satellite school than at the central commissary. This indicates more systematic foodservice management practices are urgently needed.
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