Yan Qi, a representative of the National People's Congress: The community canteen is purchased by the first class to provide services at cost so that the elderly can eat at ease.
Some elderly people are inconvenient to walk and other factors, and it is also difficult to buy vegetables and cook, so there are love canteens supported by the civil affairs department, but due to the low price, many are losing ......Yesterday, Yan Qi, a representative of the National People's Congress and chairman of Chongqing Taoranju Group, said that she would put forward the "Proposal on Promoting the Quality and Efficiency of Elderly Care Services with the Construction of Community Canteens as the Starting Point", which not only allows the elderly to eat delicious and nutritious meals without having to do it themselves, but also allows the love canteen to be maintained for a long time.
In the middle of last year, the reporter interviewed Fan Shengyun, the operator of the love canteen located in Minghao Food Street, in the jurisdiction of the Shengli Road Sub-district Office in Yongchuan District. She told reporters that the elderly can choose to eat a buffet of more than 10 kinds of dishes for more than 10 yuan, although the old people can get convenience and benefits, as well as subsidies from the civil affairs department, but her business is extremely difficult, and she loses about 20,000 yuan every month, she said, if the loss continues in December, it will be closed. Sure enough, after that, after she persevered, she had no choice but to close down.
Yan Qi said that with the aging of the population, it is difficult for some elderly people to cook and eat by themselves. Therefore, in recent years, the city has promoted home-based elderly care service centers and established community canteens, which are subsidized by the civil affairs department. However, many community canteens are unsustainable after a period of operation, the root cause is that the production cost of meals for the elderly is high, and the first is low, many are in a state of loss, and in the long run, there will be more community canteens facing closure.
In 2023, China will introduce relevant policies to advocate the construction of community embedded service facilities with moderate scale, economic applicability and efficient services, and establish community service centers to provide one-stop services for residents. To this end, she suggested that the public service positioning of community canteen operation should be clarified. Specifically, the purchase of services, by the community canteen first according to the cost of the calculation of services, and then the unified development of the first grid, can also be classified billing, such as: the elderly over 70 years old and children under the age of 6 set the first grid, ordinary residents will be priced separately, to ensure that the enterprise has profits to maintain the basic operation, while allowing residents to get benefits.
Revitalize the existing state-owned housing resources in the community and build community canteens. Implement the "1+N" service supply model, that is, relying on one demonstration community canteen, drive the common development of N embedded, distributed, chained, and professional community canteens, and achieve full coverage of dining services.
Support leading catering enterprises to build community canteens, preferential treatment in electricity, water, rent, taxation, etc., implement the policy of "substitution with awards", and can give supporting subsidies, and explore the annual increase in cash subsidies for the elderly to community dining subsidies. Create a variety of meal assistance methods, and promote the effective coverage of meal assistance services for the elderly through the model of "** kitchen + central canteen + meal assistance".
Of course, the standardized construction of community canteens should be strengthened, the whole process of community canteen services should be supervised, and food safety defense should be built. Community canteens should also be encouraged to diversify, such as opening a "community canteen reading space" model to provide residents with leisure space for chatting and entertainment, and provide business service growth points. Promote the "embedded elderly care" model in the community, build community day care centers, and provide one-stop services such as "medical care, housing, food, entertainment and education" for the elderly. Support qualified areas and powerful catering leading enterprises to explore the integration of pension, health, and housekeeping service outlets, provide more abundant and diverse services for the elderly, and continuously improve the combination of medical care and elderly care, "pension + housekeeping" and other service formats.
Reporter Tang Xiaozhong.