finance

Congressman: One-size-fits-all lunch rules are recipe for disaster

Apr. 21, 2015

An Indiana Congressman is seeing a lot of food being thrown away in school cafeterias due to ‘the stupidity of [federal] regulations.’

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Sodexo raises meal plan fee at HI college by 5%

Apr. 21, 2015

Sodexo announced it is increasing meal swipe prices by five-percent at one Hawaii university due to increases in electricity and other factors.

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Custodian knows what’s popular for lunch

Apr. 21, 2015

Evidence of how well healthy meals are going over is found in the bags of garbage that custodians haul to the dumpster.

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College food fees skyrocket

Apr. 21, 2015

NPR reports high room and board expenses leave students paying about $24 a day for food on the cheapest meal plan – twice what the government says an average American spends.

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Judge sentences cafeteria worker who stole $90,000

Apr. 17, 2015

A former cafeteria worker at Keystone Oaks School District in Pittsburgh, Penn., could serve up to one year in jail after pleading guilty to stealing more than $90,000 from students’ meal accounts.

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Students aren’t eating the healthier, free meals

Apr. 16, 2015

Although free lunches are available to all students in Wilkes County, more students are not taking advantage due to their dissatisfaction with food served under the new federal nutrition guidelines—resulting in the program losing money.

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