How Can Ashdale Catering Help?
- By providing good quality, tasty meals that children enjoy.
- We offer a wide variety of choices daily to avoid menu fatigue.
- We’ve designed a flexible, simple ordering system allowing changes and cancellations.
- By encouraging schools to remind parents regularly about updating orders.
- We send app notifications to remind parents to cancel or change meals.
- We Deliver only to schools within a 30-minute radius of Ballycureen, Cork City, ensuring flexibility even in adverse weather.
👉 Ashdale Catering removes all leftover waste and ensures packaging and food are recycled or composted responsibly.
How Can Schools Help?
- Notify Ashdale Catering in advance of:
- School closures
- Half-days
- School tours
- Teacher training days
- Retreats and other out-of-school activities
(to avoid unnecessary deliveries)
- Encourage children to bring reusable forks and spoons instead of single-use cutlery.
- Allow children enough time to finish their meals.
How Can Parents Help?
- Only order meals on days your child wants school lunch.
- Discuss menu choices with your child—order what they will eat, not just what you’d prefer.
- Avoid overfilling lunch boxes with snacks so children still have an appetite for their hot meal.
- Cancel orders if your child will be absent due to illness, appointments, or holidays.
- Remember: This is an optional free service—there is no obligation to opt in.
