The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung e. V. (German Nutrition Society) offers communal catering facilities and caterers who supply these facilities the opportunity to have a wholesome catering service certified by the DGE. (Source: DGE-certified communal catering | DGE)

For certification, all requirements set out in the DGE quality standard for catering in schools and daycare centers are objectively tested. These include various criteria in the areas of food, menu planning and production, hygiene aspects, quality management and living environment. If all criteria are met for at least one menu line, the catering offer is awarded a DGE certificate.

With a comprehensive range of meal options, we make a valuable contribution to providing healthy and sustainable meals for our guests of all ages.

• Healthy Development for All: Healthy and sustainable meals promote the physical and mental development of children and students.
• Food strengthens community: Eating and drinking together brings people from all walks of life together, thereby fostering social interaction and the emotional, social, and cultural development of young people.
• Key Settings for Prevention: Through healthy and sustainable meals, children and adolescents can enjoy a wide variety of taste experiences and develop a mindful approach to food. As important places for learning and living, daycare centers and schools support young people in their development, shape their eating habits, and lay the foundation for them to take responsibility for their own health.
• Greater Sustainability: Healthy and more sustainable school and daycare meals offer a wide range of opportunities for greater sustainability—from planning and purchasing to consumption, disposal, and cleaning.

In this way, “health” and “sustainability” go hand in hand, and children and teens can experience this firsthand every day and learn from it over the long term.

More information: DGE quality standards | DGE

Based on current scientific data, the DGE quality standard describes the criteria for optimal, healthy and sustainable catering. Each daycare center can implement this quality standard at its own pace, step by step.

Cooking becomes more exciting for the kitchen staff, the chefs can try out new things and cook more themselves again.

The concrete advantages are:

• Few to no convenience products
• Creative, healthy and nutritious cooking
• Plannable and economical workflows
• Seasonal and child-friendly menus taking into account all DGE standards

For parents, certification from an external body offers additional security. This means that our menu is not only created by us to the best of our knowledge and belief, but has also been tested by an official body. So we can all be sure that our meals are perfect for our guests.

Our dishes are prepared fresh daily using gentle cooking methods, and are low in salt and mildly seasoned. We make a point of tailoring our meals to children’s tastes. We are convinced that simple, natural ingredients are best for providing children and teenagers with a varied and delicious diet.

Meals primarily provide the body with nutrients and keep it efficient. A regular supply of balanced and wholesome meals contributes to this. In this way, healthy eating habits can be established in the long term.

Shared mealtimes promote independence among adolescents and help them develop everyday life skills. Participation and a respectful approach to mealtimes support children and adolescents in their development.

At the same time, school and daycare meals provide relief for parents, particularly when it comes to the organizational effort involved in providing lunch or all-day meals.

Cook & chill is a concept for communal catering. Food preparation and serving are separated in terms of space and time, resulting in a number of advantages.

• One advantage of Cook & Chill is the guarantee of hygienic safety, as the multiplication of pathogenic germs and the resulting formation of pathogenic toxins are prevented by quickly passing through the hygienically questionable temperature range between +70°C and +3°C, and the regeneration guarantees a consumption temperature of at least +65°C.
• Furthermore, tasks such as preparing food and portioning can be taken over by educators, as no kitchen-specific knowledge is required here.
• We also add preparation recommendations to the menus, which greatly simplify the operation of ovens and the warming process.
• The food is not kept warm for a long time, but is cooked in the facility at the desired time. This preserves nutrients and keeps the food tasty and firm to the bite.
• Even with different meal times from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., every child receives a fresh meal.

There is always a menu consisting of a starter or dessert and a main course.

This includes:

• Meat once a week (no pork)
• Fish once a week (fatty fish every 2 weeks)
• 3x vegetarian or vegan varied dishes

Our menu includes plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, pulses, dairy products, cereal products, potatoes, oils and fats.

We implement the guidelines of the FIT KID concept of the DGE (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung e.V.) in our menu planning. The menu is planned in a 6-week rhythm. It consists of alternating main courses, such as a meat dish, a Byodo pasta dish, a fish dish, a vegetarian dish and a dessert (every 2 weeks). Soups, side dishes, vegetables, salads, raw vegetables, fresh fruit, quark, yoghurts and smoothies complement the children’s meals.

This is how we create age-appropriate, varied, and seasonal meal options. We also always try to incorporate feedback from the facilities into our meal plans as best we can.

We have been successfully working with seasonal and regional foods for years. Many of our supplier relationships have been in place for several years. We are a loyal and reliable partner and use these ingredients not only for school and daycare catering but also in our gourmet kitchen in Mühldorf—which also serves as the cafeteria for all Byodo employees.
All of our food and products are 100% organic. Even our suppliers are 100% organic, with the shortest possible supply chains.

The organic farmer from Pürten, who supplies potatoes, the Alztaler Hofmolkerei dairy, which supplies us with dairy products, the Tagwerk wholesaler with fresh fruit and vegetables and many more – we only choose suppliers with a transparent and short supply chain.

Of course, everyone has different tastes. We plan our menu to be as age-appropriate and varied as possible. You can provide us with regular feedback using our feedback form. We’ll do our best to incorporate this feedback into our future planning as much as possible.

Of course, we also cater for intolerances, and meals are then replaced with other products or other dishes that are tolerated. In the case of lactose intolerance, we naturally use lactose-free dairy products.

Orders can be placed and cancelled digitally on our ordering platform until 16:00 the day before.
The orders are sent to us cumulatively for each facility, so we know how many children, including those with an intolerance, we can cook for.
Orders are either placed directly with us by the facilities or sent to us via our ordering app.

The meals are freshly cooked, portioned for the respective facilities and cooled in the blast freezer before being delivered to the facilities in cooled thermoboxes by our KiTa drivers.
A temperature check is carried out on site with the facility, which is then recorded on delivery.
For facilities that do not have the option of heating the meals, we can also offer hot delivery.

The reheating time in the oven depends on the specific dish. The serving unit retrieves the food containers and heats them to preset temperatures in the user-friendly oven.
Afterward, the food can be portioned immediately and served to the children and teenagers.
The size of the groups and facilities determines how long the serving process takes.

A so-called regeneration oven is required to heat the food properly. Investment costs of €3,000 must be expected for this oven. Otherwise, no additional investment is required for the facility.

Byodo provides the following service:

• Sick note: The parent can cancel the meal via the app up to 16:00 the day before.
• Billing: Depending on the agreement, billing takes place either via the facility or directly with the parents via a payment system on our platform
• Support / work facilitation: The app is presented in the facilities and is very user-friendly, making it quick & easy to use.
• Parent Information Sessions: To provide an introduction and detailed information about our school and daycare catering services, we are happy to visit daycares, schools, and other institutions to host parent information sessions.

A wide variety of institutions can receive our school and daycare meals, such as daycare centers, kindergartens, elementary schools, middle schools, and many others.

Yes, we deliver school and daycare meals to facilities within a radius of approximately 30 kilometers.

Please feel free to contact us to find out if your school or daycare is within our delivery area.

The size of the facility to be served depends on the number of meals and the distance to the location. We can arrange a delivery for orders of 40 meals or more.

You are also welcome to submit a request to us together with partner facilities, neighboring facilities and similar facilities nearby (e.g. kindergarten and elementary school), etc., if you then meet the minimum requirement of 40 children. A joint delivery also has the advantage that you can benefit from price incentives.

The new Organic Food Regulation for Foodservice came into effect in early October 2023. The regulation, introduced by former Federal Minister Cem Özdemir, governs the inspection and labeling of organic foods in the foodservice industry. It is intended to make the proportion of organic ingredients used more visible to diners, simplify the organic certification process, and strengthen consumer protection.

The new regulation requires that a list of ingredients must indicate what kitchens use in organic quality. The new regulations allow suppliers to label the organic ingredients used. Gold stands for the highest possible proportion of organic ingredients.

Out of a sense of conviction, we use only 100% organic ingredients in our gourmet kitchen as well as in our school and daycare catering services.

• A healthy and balanced diet for children and adolescents featuring high-quality organic foods
• Early nutrition education and awareness of the value of food
• High proportion of seasonal and regional products
• Less pesticide and additive residues
• Support for organic farming

Organic food is healthier: fruit and vegetables are low in harmful substances and very rich in nutrients. They are processed gently and without additives such as artificial flavors and flavor enhancers. What’s more, our organic food simply tastes delicious.

Through our organic school and daycare catering, we’re making a huge contribution to sustainability and climate protection—especially since we combine organic with seasonal and regional ingredients.
Organic products generate less CO2.

• Because organic farmers are not allowed to use artificial fertilizers, which require a lot of natural gas and crude oil in their production.
• Because organic animals eat a lot of grass on pasture instead of imported soy.
  In this way, our farmers protect the rainforests, because a lot of forest is often cut down to grow soy.
• Because organic soils are rich in humus and humus can store CO2 very well (the bottom line is that more CO2 remains in the soil than is released back into the air).

Organic food can give your school or daycare center a unique selling point.
With these products and carefully selected foods alone, you can meet the highest quality standards available in the institutional food service sector.