Sentences with phrase «faces food service directors»

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This is not to say that we should throw up our hands in defeat and accept highly processed foods for our kids, but it's important to remember that even the most well - meaning food services director may be facing insurmountable hurdles in the effort to improve school meals.

That is to say, Lunch Money is a really great way for parents to get up to speed on how school lunch programs operate and areas where there may be clear room for improvement, but no parent should assume that just by reading Lunch Money he or she fully understands the challenges faced by their own food services director.

And if you're a layperson like me, I also recommend taking a look at the slides for this 2012 School Nutrition Association presentation by two food service directors, just to get a taste of the struggles districts face in handling this delicate issue and the costs they incur both in lost meal charges in trying to collect on delinquent accounts.

School food services are tax exempt, so the only effect a sugar tax would have on them would be to impose downward pressure on sugar prices, which would make sugar more attractive to school food directors facing pressure to cut costs.

Suddenly faced with looming deficits, food service directors looked to a la carte foods as a lucrative revenue source to help keep their lunch programs afloat.

The subcommittee's chairman, GOP Rep. Robert Aderholt of Alabama, told Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack that he is receiving complaints from schools and from the School Nutrition Association, which represents school food - service directors, that some schools are facing both a financial and logistical burden in implementing the new school - meals programs and are requesting a delay.

Try to put yourself in the shoes of a food service director or a school food caterer facing a population that's been weaned on these foods.

«First, to address the hiring challenge faced by small LEAs, those with 2,499 or fewer students, this rule would require relevant food service experience rather than school nutrition program experience for new directors.

The Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), recently proposed rule FNS 2017 - 0039 which addresses some of the challenges small districts face in hiring school nutrition director candidates.