alternative food management food and life from a different perspective

ALTERNATIVE FOOD MANAGEMENT

Food and Life From a Different Perspective

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, and show up.

Worked with Canteen Services from 1990 to 2011

Began as Food Service Manager at Saginaw County Jail

Opportunity to support different jails

Learned correctional sales

Added Commissary to Food Offerings

Grew Canteen Corrections from 2 accounts to 69 accounts when I left

Opened C Burns Consulting

Developed food proposals for Guam, Virgin Islands companies

Brand Emergency Boxed Meals for Harvest Farms

Cindy Burns….What I do

JAIL FOOD SERVICE IN THE OLD DAYS……

The Sheriff’s wife generally provided the food for the inmates.

If she was a good cook…….everybody won!

If she wasn’t....they all ate a lot of burnt biscuits!

HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THIS OPTION?

WHY CONTRACT

Benefits to the Jail: Cheaper Meals

Trained Staff

Liability Controls:

Meet Diet Standards

Medical Diets

Meals served “On Time—Every Time”

The picture is not a typical inmate meal!

Regular Meal Would Be:

Chicken Patty---3 oz $ .27

Green Beans—1/2 cup .09

Mashed Potato—1/2 cup .09

Chicken Gravy—1/2 cup .04

Wheat Bread—2 slices .11

Margarine Whipped—1 tsp .02

Lime Jello—1/2 cup .06

Kool-Aid type Beverage .02

Total Cost for Food Alone $ .70

SO, I GOT THIS JOB….

Working in Corrections is different! You learn Professionalism

Officers

Other employees

You work with Inmates

People Skills Safety Circle

SO WHAT ARE THE HOURS?

4:30 in the morning to 7:00 at night

Inmates are served three meals a day

2500 calories as an average

No more than 14 hours from supper to breakfast

I HAVE ALL THIS PAPERWORK

In corrections, a diary is important:

Your shiftConcerns with inmatesTemperaturesMedical Diets

SHOW ME THE MONEY

Hourly pay starts out around $ 9.50 an hour

Management can begin at $ 25,000 to $ 40,000

You can begin as an hourly and learn management

OOPS…..I THINK I MADE A MISTAKE!

There are Rules I know, but OOPS… Now What? Please remember, there are No Secrets

in Corrections…… just be honest!

AArRaGh! I can’t believe I did that!

Don’t compareyour life to others’.You have no idea what theirjourney is allabout.

WHO I AM….

I weighed 4 pounds 4 ½ ounces

My Dad died when I was 10

Home life was pretty rough

Got married at 17 to get out of the house

Graduated from Coleman High School

Divorced at 27

I raised two sons as a single parent

Chris is a Neurological ICU Specialist

Jeremy is a Project Manager at Ford

I have 8 Grandchildren

My Grandson lived with me for his senior year so he could graduate. He was living in his car before that

I’ve been fired twice

EVERYBODY HAS GOOD DAYS AND BAD DAYS….

Some days you are the statue and some days you are the pigeon…..

ON- SITE AND EMERGENCY FEEDING

Prepackaged Box MealsStore Frozen—Hand Out Frozen

Packed Fresh to OrderKeep Frozen

Call Cindy at 989-239-3779 or

cburns@harvestfarms.com

BOX MEALS—SIMPLE AND HANDS OFF

Ideal for:

TransportOn the Menu FeedingResponse in Time of DisasterAny Trouble with Service

THE HARVEST FARMS—MICHAEL JACKSON CONNECTION

EXPECTATIONS

Perfection…..not!

You learn to expect the unexpected!

MAKE IT HAPPEN

You only get one today

No do-overs

No replays Do your best

YOUR CHOICES + YOUR ACTIONS = YOUR REALITY

DON’T LIKE YOUR REALITY……

CHANGE YOUR CHOICES AND YOUR ACTIONS

Change Change is the essence of lifeBe willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.

AFFIRMATIONS…..BE KIND TO YOU!

Talk to yourself…..

It’s healthy!

No one is perfect: No one!

A FRIEND….Someone who believes in you when you forget to believe

CONNECTIONS

Every friend brings a lesson to you

Every friend learns a lesson from you

When you are in deep trouble, say nothing and act like you know what

you are doing!

MAKE A DIFFERENCE………..JUST ONE!