Crete system can handle lunch pay

From September next, the public catering system may change significantly in schools and other public institutions, namely that lunch money will be paid by the institution’s secretariat or the municipality directly to the supplier. Instead, it will be necessary to order and pay the meal through the Crete Public Education System, for which the system operator will charge a 5%mediation fee.

On the basic public education registration and study system used in public education, ie CHALKThe administration and salary of child meals would be carried out through. That is, no matter what child meals is a municipal task, Perhaps this is the only way from the next school year that the fees will be passed through, which would alsoor the entrepreneur they are entrusted with the money – this is summarized by the legislative packagewhich Ákos Hadházy has been stabbed in the days.

All this is not as distant future because this system on this digital platform has long been ready for the so -called diet modulewhich with this step can soon become sharp.

It is proposed that municipalities will pay 5 percent of the total cost of child meals for the « service » to the company that operates Crete. Hadházy warns that although « at first glance this is almost a harmless change », this 5 percent « in the lower voice » is $ 6-8 billion a year.

What do you need to know about domestic child meals?

The cost of child meals consists of two parts: the raw materials collected from parents and the overhead costs provided by the municipalities, which necessarily supplement state aid. In the year 2024, the central budget spent HUF 105 billion on all of this and approximately 600,000 students participated in it. Compared to this, the budget appropriation planned for the year 2025 will exceed HUF 140 billion.

It is proposed that the total amount will be placed in the Crete system, ie municipalities cannot give the money directly to the company they entrust. As it is known, half of the municipalities still do not handle cooking with an outsourced company, but organize it itself, contracted with smaller entrepreneurs. In the future, however, the money devoted to it and the parents’ money must first be sent to Crete.

Bátonyterenye asks for help

Since 2023, Nógrád County has been facing serious budget problems Brave The Municipality of the City, the public catering contractor, is currently a debt of HUF 60 million in debt with an annual budget of 7.3 billion. All this is such a threat that Mayor István Orosz posted a call to the residents on Facebook:

The danger of the collection appears as a daily threat, even by trying to deal with the situation with disciplined and careful management.

Therefore, he turned to the locals with an unusual request:

– During this extraordinary period, I consider it particularly important to get together. The future of the city is a common cause to ensure basic services, such as kindergarten and school meals, public lighting, etc., we also need cooperation between the population and local businesses. Therefore – wrote Russian.

The mayor said that the city will put about 7-8 million forints a year on the state norm, so they can pay the price of the local entrepreneur annually. In 2024 it was enough for 110,000 daily doses. Parents pay approximately 13 million, but payment discipline is very loose, with regular debt of the population about half of it, 7.1 million HUF.

He also added that earlier public catering debts would make HUF 46 million, which would completely make their farming impossible.

In the current situation, therefore, no further price increase, no matter how small. The situation is also absurd because the contractor has terminated the contract, but no company has applied for their application, but the current contract will only last until 30 May, the mayor said.

For the time being, large, nationally competitive public catering companies who are interviewed by Blikk but asking for discretion are not yet able to declare. We were wondering whether, if the legislation was adopted, the 5 percent service fee would be passed on to the customer, ie the parents’ pocket would be charged. It also turned out that the price calculations of next year’s menopause are now underway, with a child’s three-day meal of about 20-22 thousand HUF a month, which may change down to the amount of municipal support.