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Clothing malfunction

We purchased aprons with the child nutrition logo on the front for our employees. I realized they were wrapping the aprons around their waists.

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Not your parents’ school lunch

If you attended public schools, you likely remember the lunches you stared down as a student: Options were often unappetizing, institutional in appearance and probably unhealthy.

Click through Snapshots of all the recipes featuring beef from the September 2014 issue.

Parents favor nutrition standards in school by a 3-to-1 margin, according to a new study conducted by The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the American Heart Association (AHA).

Martin Bros. Distributing Co. has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit claim that it had a monopoly in the bidding process for distributing food at hundreds of Iowa schools for 14 years.

McDowell County Schools Child Nutrition is seeing an increase in breakfast and lunch participation at elementary schools across the district.

A new U.S. Department of Agriculture program is designed to boost local control of school food purchases this year.

Every student who attends a Philadelphia School District school is now eligible for free breakfast and lunch, officials announced Thursday.

Healthier lunches full of leafy greens and whole grains will again be on menus in districts across Michigan when school opens Tuesday.

See what's happening with budgets and how operators are cutting costs. 

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