The lunchroom workers union, Unite Here Local 1, represents 3,300
CPS lunchroom employees, dozens of whom marched in front of CPS headquarters Tuesday afternoon.
But one thing the more than 40 gardens have in common is that none of the produce ever finds its way into
CPS lunchrooms...
Not exact matches
CPS» food service provider is Chartwells Thompson, which caters most of the district's
lunchrooms.
While Fed Up With Lunch takes a stark and often critical look at the school food — in her case, served by a
CPS caterer called Preferred Meal Systems — Wu offers generous props to
lunchroom managers, cooks and others who must prepare thousands of hot meals for often - choosy customers each day.
Linda Green, a
CPS manager of several South Side
lunchrooms, said there has been an increase in frozen meals during her 23 years with the district.
That year,
CPS incorporated more whole grains into
lunchroom menus, removed daily nachos, started offering a different vegetable every day and introduced more healthful new foods.
CPS plans to get rid of additional
lunchroom positions through attrition.
In this vein,
CPS has recently introduced an «environments» program to a handful of high school
lunchrooms.
While scores of
CPS students recently complained to the Tribune about their «nasty» school food, Holy Trinity students mostly praised their school meals during a recent unchaperoned tour of the
lunchroom.
TIF has also supported a range of other improvements at
CPS, from new and improved playgrounds and
lunchrooms to facility improvements.