The school canteen reflects the value habits of putting on healthy eating practices to the pupils

and teachers alike. In addition to providing nutritious food, the canteen is important to health in
promoting its role within the school. For pupils who use canteen services regularly, the food
purchased there makes a significant contribution to their total daily food intake and nutrition.
Nutrition is important for young growing mind and bodies.

Children’s nutritional status is one of the huge problems in the world at present. Obesity, a
undernourished nutritional status is the common issues and concerns of learners.

Schools are considered as second homes for the learners; teachers are considered as the second
parents and the school canteen is considered as the second kitchen of the pupils. The school
canteen serves as the service provider of the school with regard to food to be served for the
learners, teachers, and school heads and even parents and school guests.

Parents, teachers, school heads are working hand in hand to resolve these issues among learners.
The government has launched several projects and problem to address this nutritional health
problem of school children.

The school canteen is one of the services provided for learners in school when it comes to food.
Parents are considering what kind of food is to be served for their children at home, so, they also
expect that the school canteen will do so. Parents would also like to ensure that the kinds of food
their children partake in the school are safe. Parents consider also where to enroll their children
so that they can be nourishing not only in mind but also in body.

The school canteen plays a vital role in school operations in providing cheap, yet nutritious food
for the learners. The school canteen supplies and generates additional income for the school and
this flows back for the schools daily operations. The school canteen can be managed by a school
teacher or the school may hire outside personnel.

Nowadays, schools are experiencing a congested number of learners inside the school canteen
especially in urban areas. Schools in urban areas become more congested every year, and school
canteens were neglected by some school heads to provide bigger areas to accommodate a large
number of learners to serve nutritious food for affordable prices that learners can buy.

A school canteen needs to continue to provide food for the school community despite having a
small space in preparing the food for its clientele, and patrons.

In this regard, the researcher was motivated to develop the best practices of canteen management
and operations for purposes of delivering quality service to the clientele, with improved
operations of the canteen in the entire Division of Cavite. Furthermore, it is a desire of the
researcher to engage more in effective operations to provide more income that would flow back
the profits to the programs and projects of the school. This study is conducted in the Division of
Cavite for this school year 2017-2018.