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28 salad bars donated to schools across the country

The United Fresh Produce Industry Leadership Program’s donation will assist schools with meeting the new school-lunch nutrition standards while empowering students to choose their own fruits and vegetables daily.

Operations

Vermont summer nutrition programs expand

Vermont children are enjoying summer meals and snacks at 270 locations, up from 141 in 2009, as a result of a partnership between Hunger Free Vermont and the USDA.

A look at some of tomorrow’s up-and-coming restaurant concepts, each posing possible competition (and ideas to ‘borrow’) for FSDs

Cheese sandwiches will no longer be served to students who forget to bring their lunch card to school. Instead, students who forget their cards will be sent to the back of the line to receive the same lunch as their peers.

The programs are good because children have access to fresh food and local agriculture gets a boost, according to the executive director of the Illinois Stewardship Alliance.

While many operators and attend the SNA’s conference to get the scoop on nutrition regulations, some see an opportunity to gain different perspectives.

The State Department of Education in Massachusetts will no longer use free and reduced lunch numbers to publicly report school districts’ low-income student populations. Instead, it will derive “economically disadvantaged” numbers based on “direct certification.”

Ranked as one of the lowest states providing summer meals to students in need, a Kansas State University nutritionist says the state is not taking advantage of the program as well as it could be.

With the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act expiring in September, Republicans are convening a series of hearings to dial back the controversial nutrition standards.

San Dieguito Union High School District recently raised meal prices, for the first time in seven years, to try to balance the budget, according to the staff nutritionist.

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