View Poll Results: How much would you be prepared to pay for daily meals that ensure you are fit and health to undertak

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  • Less than £5

    46 56.10%
  • Between £5 - £10

    32 39.02%
  • More than £10

    4 4.88%
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Discuss PAYD at the Pay, Claims & JPA forum within the The Army Rumour Service website; Most will accept that the implementation of PAYD doesn't deliver to the expectation of the ...
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    PAYD

    Most will accept that the implementation of PAYD doesn't deliver to the expectation of the vast majority of our soldiers (and Officers).

    If you were to start from scratch, what would you have?

    Would you have a Core Meal, would you have breakfast, when and where would you want to eat and how much would you be prepared to pay?

    I'm after as far ranging views as possible and not just the 'It's shit scrap it.'

    We have a duty of care to feed those individuals who are constrained by the demands of the service. Lets try to get it right and give them what they want.
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    Re: PAYD

    And you are who exactly?
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    Re: PAYD

    Someone charged with looking after the welfare of our soldiers and their families!
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    Re: PAYD

    Where I'm posted, there's a lot of civilians who eat in the JR mess at lunch time. The food for this meal is of the highest standard, well cooked, laid out and very tasty.

    However, when the civilians go home at night, and it's just the military the food undergoes a horrendous metamorphosis into standard military slop. Curry every other night, chips the next. Complaints have been lodged, but since PAYD is being run a civilian company, they're rarely given a second glance.

    In answer to your question, I believe £5-10 per day is quite reasonable.
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    Re: PAYD

    Funny old thing, back in the day when blokes paid food charges, they could get 3 square meals a day for about £3.50...

    The Master Chef, who wasn't the Master Chef by accident - could work wonders with this in a Battalion Cookhouse, ensuring that there was always plenty, it was a balanced diet - and there was no such thing as a 'Free Feeder'. He or she would know that there wouldn't be many for scoff on a Friday night - and that the cookhouse would always be full at the end of the month, especially before pay day.

    PAYD is a bit like socialism - a great idea but just doesn't quite work...

    Be careful what you wish for.

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    Re: PAYD

    Quote Originally Posted by egg_custard
    Someone charged with looking after the welfare of our soldiers and their families!
    My point Mr. Touchy is whether you are in a position to make any changes.

    And do you honestly think a privately owned civilian company with a monopoly on the Armed Forces would change anything by throwing more money at them? No they would still deal out the same standard of cuisine they are currently and keep the extra change. Simples.
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    Re: PAYD

    Quote Originally Posted by egg_custard

    We have a duty of care to feed those individuals who are constrained by the demands of the service. Lets try to get it right and give them what they want.
    Maybe you want to try teaching fucktards how to look after themselves, How do civvies managed?
    PAYD is pretty wank on numerous levels, but price isnt really an issue for food, due to that the army chefs are not paid for by the PAYD companies and I'm guessing rent isnt much of an issue either so the food is always going to be cheaper than civvie street.
    If you had to make one improvement allow soldiers to use their ID cards to authorise payment of food to come out of the next months wage. That would end all hungry soldier chits/admin cases not eating, the company (who obviously want to make money) will always have customers right up to the end of the month, people don't have to with draw a tenner from the cash machine that charges them £2.50 for the privilege, soldiers won't have to make a minimum £5 spend if they want to use their cash card.
    There are a few more things that could be done but get that right and alot of people will be happy.

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    Re: PAYD

    As has been pointed out, PAYD is excellent for civvies working in camp. They get a good meal for a very reasonable price. At the times they don't join the queue (breakfast and evening meals) the food and the service is very sub-standard. Paying extra for the food won't change anything but the profits of a civvy firm with a monopoly.
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    Re: PAYD

    PAYD does work. But only in one place i have found so far. RMB chiv the food is awesome. But there are some really really bad places SEME for instance.
    I think it depends if the company has any intrest in the lads or not.

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    Re: PAYD

    I've seen several replies already that all run along the lines of 'It's a civvy company ripping off the MoD, what can you do?'. Well, I'll tell you what you can do,and what the situation is.
    I left almost 10 years to the day, and before PAYD was introduced, and have since set up and run my own very sucessful company and do a lot of work with contracts. If a company was to sign an agreement with me to provide 3 meals day for my staff and they produced one good meal and 2 below par ones I would then begin the process of working out (via our company contact) why a standard of service has not been maintained over the 3 meals and ask them to correct it. You of course get all correspondence and items in writing and agreed by both parties. If this still does not deliver results then you either go higher up the chain or legal. Many companies know the Army\MoD are rubbish with contracts, not only in negotiaton, but in ensuring that they are maintained that they take advantage of this.
    YOU are the customer. YOU are paying for a sub-standard service. YOU are accepting this. My advice is that you start to make a noise. You find out who locally is responsable for the contarct and you complain to them. The problem you have in the army (especially at the lower levels) is that you shouldn't complain, you shouldn't make a fuss. Well, you should. You are being (in many cases) shafted by companied who know that they are getting away with murder. Civvy workplace canteens certainly wouldn't stand for it.
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    The world belongs, however to those who can look at the glass and say: 'What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!'
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