Food: young students choose the recipes that will make up the future menus in the canteen

In Auxerre, in the Yonne, a chef from the Elior group came to give students aged 5 to 11 a taste of new recipes. For the starter, the cook was rather playful, offering a cream of salsify and lentils. A recipe that was not unanimous, but it was not the only one he had planned. The role of this chef is indeed to propose new recipes. If they are validated by the children, they will be served in the 1,800 canteens in France managed by the Elior group.

Avoid waste

“If we don’t test our recipes, it goes in the trash, and we don’t want that. So it’s the children who tell us if we were right, or if we were wrong. was wrong”explains Sylvain Chevalier, chef and head of culinary innovation at Elior Group. New recipes to avoid waste, of course, but also to develop taste. Some dishes have received a very mixed reception, and will therefore not have much of a future in canteens. On the other hand, the apple-chocolate cake won all the votes.