Sundays@10am Morning Tea
1. General
2. Sunday Morning Set Up
3. Responsibilities During Morning Tea
4. Pack Up Procedure
1. General
- Supplies are stored in two tubs labelled ‘Morning Tea Supplies’. There is a third tub labelled ‘Supplies to Re-stock Morning Tea Tub’.
- Four cordial jugs with plastic cups are in a blue basket labelled ‘Cordial Jugs and Cups’.
- Tea towels, dishwashing liquid, Chux cloths, gloves, sponges and spray cleaner are in a tub labelled ‘Dish Washing Supplies”.
- Those rostered on need to be at church by 9.30am to ensure everything is attended to in time for those people to be ready for church at 10.00am.
- Two people are rostered on for each Sunday - usually one will provide food for adults and one for children and teenagers. Do make sure you touch base with one another to work out who is bringing what.
- One person needs to bring milk. Suggest 1 litre of full cream and 1 litre of light milk.
- If there are any costs for morning tea food or supplies you wish to be reimbursed for, please fill in the attached form, attach the relevant receipts, get Pam Collins or Stuart Maze to sign and then pass on to Col Bryant for reimbursement
2. Sunday Morning Set Up
- Check that tables have been brought out from the store room by the Set Up / Pack Down team.
- Take garbage bin from store room, insert bin liner and place near front of canteen.
- Insert a white liner in the canteen bin if there is not one already there.
- Bring the urn from the store room, fill from the Zip boiler and place at canteen window closest to chest freezer.
- Plug into power behind pie warmer and turn to low.
- Set out coffee, tea bags, cups, sugar, teaspoons and serviettes near the LHS hutch
- Check that sugar dispensers are filled to the top, otherwise the sugar will not pour out.
- Make up two jugs of cordial (one is enough during school holidays) and fill two jugs with water. Place these in the fridge until morning tea time.
- Leave food covered until morning tea.
3. Responsibilities During Morning Tea
- Leave the hall towards the end of the last song, put the milk out and take the plates of food to the tables.
- Generally people will serve themselves, but be available to help and direct if necessary.
- It can be helpful to walk around with plates of food if you see that people are a bit hesitant to help themselves.
- Remove plates from tables as they are become empty.
- Introduce newcomers to regulars if this can be done easily.
4. Pack Up Procedure
- Clear plates from the tables.
- Put any rubbish such as foam cups in the garbage bin.
- Wash up everything that has been used. This includes the small glasses when we have Lord’s Supper.
- We have our own washing up equipment so we don’t need to use anything from the canteen.
- Return everything to its appropriate tubs. The mugs go inside the cordial jugs.
- One of the rostered people needs to take home tea towels to wash and return.
- IMPORTANT: If any canteen plates, cutlery or utensils are used it is vital that these items be washed and returned to the correct places in the cupboard or drawer. Same applies to chopping boards and oven trays. We do this out of love, but also to ensure a good relationship with the school canteen manager.
- All flat surfaces in the canteen must be wiped down with a Chux cloth, then with a tea towel so they not left with a “streaky” look.
- Make sure the Set Up / Pack Down team returns the tables to the store room.
- Remove rubbish in bags from bins and return black bin to store room.
- Put a new white liner in the canteen bin.
- If any items such as tea bags or serviettes need stocking up, this should be done now so that everything is in order for the next week. There should be reserve stock in the tub labelled “supplies to restock morning tea tub”. This is in the store room.
- All tubs are to be stacked on the trolley (see packing instructions attached to the trolley) and returned to the store room.
- We must ensure that the canteen is left in a clean and tidy state so that we maintain a good relationship with the school.
- The shutters in the canteen must be closed and locked.
- The air conditioning must also be turned off.
- Pam Collins has taken on the responsibility for ensuring that our stocks are kept up to date and generally seeing that our morning tea and Pot Luck lunch Procedures work smoothly. If you see that anything appears to be running low or needs attention, please let her know.
- A laminated copy of these procedures will be kept in the Morning Tea tubs for your referral.