Food safety management in aerofood Angkasa Citra Sarana (ACS) catering service

Abstract

Historically ACS was part of Garuda Indonesia but then it was separated in 1970. The first plant was built in Kemayoran Airport, namely Garuda Airline Flight Kitchen. On 23 December 1974, by the opening Halim Perdana Kusumah, Garuda joined venture with Dairy Farm and form Aero Garuda Dairy Farm Catering Service. Then in 1975, the company moved to International Airport Cengkareng because of fast growing inflight industry and changed the name to Aero Garuda Catering Service on 23 December 1981. Next, on 29 November 1982 it converted the name to PT Angkasa Citra Sarana Catering Service and became one of subsidiary PT Aerowisata. Now ACS has 3 division, namely In-flight Catering, Industrial Catering and In-flight Service Total Solution. The branches of In-flight catering unit are in Jakarta, Surabaya, Denpasar, Medan Balikpapan, Solo, and Jogja. They serve both Domestic and International Flight cf Garuda Indonesia and Foreign Airline, industrial catering has 15 units including town catering and mining catering. Jakarta plant unit are able to produce 20.000 - 25.000 meal per day, while the others are various. ACS has some of chef which provides many type of food such as European food, Asian Food and Indonesia traditional menu. ACS with a new brand name Aero Food has ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 22000: 2005 certification. In addition ACS adopts the IFSA guideline as its standard. IFSA refers to International Flight Service Association. ACS also considers some standards established by customer such as Medina (JAL Consultant on Food Quality Assurance), Korean Standard, Saudi Arabian standard, Cathay Pacif c standard and others.