May 13—The butter police are on the job. New York City school kitchen managers said they’ve being targeted and “bullied” by bureaucrats who have threatened “disciplinary action” for buying butter, in violation of a five-year-old policy against using or offering the spread in cafeterias.
The policy prohibits school kitchens from cooking with it, or giving it to students for their bread. And a crackdown on violators has now gone into effect, The New York Daily News reported.
Here’s a recent email from one food manager to officials who oversee 25 schools, The Daily News reported: “Please explain why your managers are ordering BUTTER!!!” Attached to the email was a list of kitchen manager accused of ordering between $74 and $148 worth of butter, called the “Excess Butter Ordering Report.”