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Over 100 combined years of service!

Tastee prides itself on being able to attract and keep quality employees at all levels. At Tastee Cross Roads, employees are celebrating over 100 – combined years of service with the company.

Tastee salutes: Mrs. Annette Chong, general manager, Miss Sylvia Tai, company secretary and personal assistant to general manager, Mr. Beresford Bailey, production manager, Merlene Grizzle, counter clerk, 34 years, Diana Jonas, cashier 32 years, and Angela Samuels, supervisor.

Over $12 million invested in tertiary education for future leaders!

Since 1996, Tastee has been investing in its Higher Education program through which the company has funded scholarships to the tune of over $12 million for students attending the University of the West Indies (Mona campus), the University of Technology (UTech, Mico Teachers College and the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts.

Over 100 trained Jamaicans, including lawyers, doctors, nurses, engineers, hospitality personnel, teachers, musicians and singers, have benefited from sponsorship provided by Tastee Limited.

As the company celebrates 40 years of service to Jamaica, and 10 years of making its contribution to higher education and training, Tastee has renewed its commitment to increasing its sponsorship of education to those who are challenged financially in obtaining the highest level of training.

Says Tastee’s dynamic Project Manager, Robert Chang, ‘We want to continue to give back to the people of Jamaica, not only in the area of culture for which we have become so very well established, but we want to invest in our country’s greatest asset – its human resources. We see Education as a vital part of our investment and a vital part of our social responsibility. For us, talent not only lies with our singers, actors and performing artistes, but with those who will lead this country in the years to come. We want to provide a greater opportunity for future lawyers, doctors, nurses, teachers … if they have talent in the performing arts as well, then they’ll be two-time winners with us at Tastee’.

The only thing we ask of those who are benefiting from the Tastee scholarships is to give back at least to years of service to this country. Don’t just let us invest in training you and at the end of your training, you take that skill somewhere else without giving back to our fellow Jamaicans. Service to your own country and to your people must become a part of your priority’, Chang adds.

Touching the lives of the forgotten!

Ever since Tastee Limited opened its doors of business at Union Square in 1966, it has always taken stock of its social responsibilities to those less fortunate or who the rest of society might have overlooked and even forgotten. Tastee’s General Manager, Mrs. Annette Chong, notes that it is a part of the Chinese culture to always set aside a certain proportion of profits, to give back to customers and those less fortunate. Giving back has been the trademark of Tastee Limited – Jamaica’s most established patty company.

The charities, organizations and individuals who have benefited from Tastee’s generosity over the past 40 years are simply too numerous to detail. The National Council on Drug Abuse, the Jamaica Youth for Christ, United Way, the Tony Thwaites Wing of the University Hospital, are just a few of the charities, to which Tastee has been an established contributor, donating both cash and kind to these and other institutions throughout its 40 years.

Tastee is proud to have been able to provide assistance to the Best Care Lodge for over 30 years through the provision of meat supplies and Tastee products. The Missionaries of the Poor, under the guidance of Father Holung have benefited from Tastee’s assistance for over 20 years, receiving financial assistance on an ongoing basis, as well as weekly supplies of Tastee products.

The Worthly Home, situated in Constant Spring, has been another beneficiary for 15 years, assured each week of supplies of Tastee patties. So too is the Salvation Army which for the past five years, has received daily supplies of Tastee patties and meatloaves. Daily contributions made upon requests from schools, churches and youth organizations, are treated with priority and seen as a part of the company’s social outreach program and part of its commitment to serve those who have helped to build this fast food business into one of Jamaica’s big success stories. For Tastee, giving back is just a natural part of its culture and its way to say “Thank you Jamaica’.