CoinFood Services

Building skills, confidence & opportunity for people facing employment barriers.
COIN Food Services is made up of two training enterprises:
Natural Blends Café  
World2Go Catering  
 
The World2Go Catering initiative started in 1996 was the beginning of COIN’s endeavor to deliver food services training skills to those with employment barriers.  Working in a kitchen with experienced trainers, trainees will learn how to prepare lunch items such as sandwiches, cheese trays, cookies, desserts and soups and many hot items such as lasagna and quiches.
Skill Development Includes:

  • learn how to prepare customer orders to exact standards
  • acquire an understanding of basic nutrition needs
  • learn how to properly clean a kitchen
  • participate in the County City Health Unit-Food Handler course
  • Customer Service Skills
  • Social Interaction 

 
For over 10 years, COIN has developed hands on training programs dedicated to the advancement of career opportunities for people with intellectual challenges. We have expanded our services/programs to provide opportunity to others facing employment barriers.
Employment barriers are:

  • Lack of work experience
  • Physical disabilities
  • Mental Health Diagnosis
  • Lack of education
  • Large gaps in employment
  • Cognitive & Developmental disabilities
  • English as a second Language (Lack of English and the familiarity of the Canadian Workplace) 

World2GO Catering Training
 Ministry of Community & Social Services – Peterborough (http://www.mcss.on.ca/)
Trent Centre for Community-Based Education (www.trentu.ca/tccbe/)
Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities: Job Creation Partnership (www.edu.gov.on.ca)
St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church  (http://www.stpaulspeterborough.ca/)
 
All training is done at the Natural Blends Café site which is located in the Peterborough Public Library.  Trainees are introduced into a customer service environment to learn how to properly interact with customers and gain retail food industry experience and skills.  Interns may have the option of training in the kitchen with World2Go Foods to gain skills and knowledge of the catering industry.
Want more information?
Please contact Jenny Nelson, Manager COIN Food Services
Telephone: 705-748-6403 Fax: 705-760-9887
Email: naturalblends@coin-ced.org
 
COIN Food Service Partners
Community Living Peterborough                                                                    (http://www.communitylivingpeterborough.ca/)
Amigos Projects (http://www.headsup.on.ca/)
Peterborough Green-Up (GreenAudit) (http://www.greenup.on.ca/)
 

Natural Blends Café Training

After the success of World2Go Foods the Natural Blends Café was opened in the Peterborough Public Library in 2001 to enhance the customer relations skills of individuals with intellectual challenges as well as others facing various employment barriers. In 2006 a partnership with the New Canadian Center has assisted in the training of new immigrants to gain more knowledge of Canadian work settings, while helping them better improve their English language skills at the same time.

  • Skills Developed: Trainees learn how to use a cash register, serve food to customers, interact with customers by taking their orders and all other aspects of the daily operation of a café.

How it works: Upon acceptance, trainees work through a program which teaches them:

  • Food preparation
  • Proper use of Café equipment
  • Health and safety & inventory control