Facility

Departure Time

Description

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

8:30 am

Food Services at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is managed by Aramark which includes Patient Food Services and Retail Food Services.  Our mandate is to deliver the highest quality meal service in the most efficient manner to ensure patient, resident and customer satisfaction.
 Aramark and the Clinical Nutrition Sunnybrook team collaborated to transform the way patients and residents experience food.  Our menus offer chef inspired, dietitian approved, deliver good nutrition, with over 80% of entrees produced in house, executed by a team of culinary experts and food service professionals. We serve approximately 3100 meals to patients and residents across 3 campuses daily.

Aramark Retail Food Services operates multiple locations across Sunnybrook that includes vending, catering and familiar brands (Second Cup, Swiss Chalet, Extreme Pita, Pizza Pizza) as well as Aramark branded concepts (Healthy Kitchen, Grill & Market Express) to meet the needs of the >10000 Sunnybrook Health Care professionals.

Limited to 15 Participants

Toronto Botanical Gardens

8:15 am

Get the most out of your visit to the Toronto Botanical Garden by taking a tour with our knowledgeable volunteer guides. This 60-minute tour includes a guided walk through the beautiful themed gardens.

You’ll learn about the plants, pollinators, history, and ecological aspects of these beautiful Toronto gardens and gain ideas on what you can do in your own garden space.

Limited to 15 Participants

Baycrest

8:15 am

Baycrest, the largest kosher kitchen in Canada is the size of a football field. There are more than 80 staff working in the Food and Nutrition Services Department on a daily basis.

Baycrest is one hundred percent kosher so no food can be prepared without the Rabbi and mashgiach (kashrut supervisors) present in the facility.

The Food & Nutrition Services Department serves the following areas:

The hospital- 262 bed post-acute care, the Apotex Centre, Jewish Home for the Aged – 472-bed nursing home with 18 serveries, Samuel Lunenfeld Mountainview Day Program, and Meals on Wheels via Circle of care.

Approximately 750 meals are produced for the hospital, Apotex, and Day program per meal service, and 500-900 meals per day for Meals on Wheels. In total, Baycrest produces approximately 1 million meals per year for residents, patients and the community.

Baycrest Uses:
200lbs of bananas per day
648 litres of milk per week
21,000 loaves of bread a year
82,000 litres of bulk juice and 155,000 juice cups a year
45,000 kg chicken a year (that’s equivalent to 25,000 chickens!)
5,200 kg of beef a year (roast, ground or cubes)
2,600 kg turkey a year

Limited to 20 Participants

Ontario Food Terminal

7:30 am

Established in 1954, the Ontario Food Terminal is the “stock exchange” for fruits and vegetables, where prices are determined by supply and demand and can change daily.
The Terminal supports local farmers, local fruit and vegetable stores, independent and chain supermarkets, retailers, restaurants, foodservice, caterers, farmers’ markets, farm gate markets, florists, garden centres, landscapers, convenience stores and institutions. For over 60 years, we have been at the forefront of the “buy local” movement.

The Ontario Food Terminal is the largest wholesale fruit and produce distribution centre in Canada, and the third largest in North America.  The terminal distributes over 2 Billion Pounds of produce annually (an average 5.6 million pounds per day). 

Although we are not open to the public (wholesale only), with 5,000 Registered Buyers, 20 Warehouse tenants, 400 Farmers’ Market tenants and 50 Office Tenants we are Ontario’s source for fresh quality fruits, vegetables and horticultural products.

Limited to 50 Participants

Fred Victor

8:00 am

Fred Victor is a social service charitable organization that fosters long-lasting and positive change in the lives of homeless and low-income people living across Toronto. Every day, more than 3,000 people use our programs and services across our 22 locations in the GTA.

Fred Victor’s 40 Oak Street location is in the downtown Regent Park neighbourhood of Toronto. This neighbourhood contains Canada’s first public housing projects and is in the midst of a 5-year revitalization plan. 

The 40 Oak St location is community hub which hosts a wide variety of programs and services including food services, a drop-in centre, service referrals, community gardens and more. In addition, 100 tenants live in 87 supported housing units above the community hub at 40 Oak. This tour will highlight the many programs and supports offered at this location, with a focus on the meal program and community gardens.

For more information about the many programs and services offered at 40 Oak Street, check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vP80VXDors&ab_channel=FredVictor

Limited to 15 Participants

George Brown College

8:00 am

Industry-trained faculty

• State-of-the-art facilities at 300 Adelaide St East and 215 King Street East
• Downtown location
• Industry connections
• CHCA Annual Career Fair
• Industry partner classroom visits and presentations
• Student Industry Networking Event
• Pathways to continue your education.
• Student support throughout program
• Alumni Services

Culinary

• 1 Demo Theatre Auditorium 1 Butchery Lab
• 1 Large Quantity Bake Lab
• 2 Large Quantity Kitchens
• 3 Demo Theatres
• 5 Bake Labs
• 8 Culinary Labs

Hospitality

• 1 Mixology Lab
• 2 Service Simulations
• 3 Wine Labs

Limited to 50 Participants