«When you talk to parents, teachers and
lunchroom managers, you realize that many kids don't get adequate nutrition anywhere else.»
And as
lunchroom managers begin to implement new Department of Agriculture dietary guidelines, some temporary chaos could result.
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.
A principal has no authority over maintenance or lunchroom workers, who report to the building engineer or
lunchroom manager.
The lunchroom manager, the ladies and men who are in the cafeteria, they care about the students and what's the best for them in their lives.
Sometimes
the lunchroom manager can add revenue to the school's food budget by baking and selling brownies, cookies and cakes.
Or maybe
the lunchroom manager wants to make extra money for the cafeteria by using up free commodity food like butter, so she makes cookies and brownies.
Under California's second program,
each lunchroom manager can choose the foods.
AD: District nutrition services folks,
the lunchroom manager, and the principal consulted on a school - by - school basis to make a plan for each school.
Not exact matches
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.
The girl allegedly pushed a 25 - year - old male staff
manager when he asked her to stop being disruptive in the
lunchroom.
Last summer the American Heart Association conducted a workshop for the food
managers of the 12 Chicago school districts under the AHA's Hearty School Lunch Program, a national effort to educate
lunchroom staff in creating more healthful meals.
«If junk food rules the
lunchroom, parents who want to pack healthy meals risk having their kids marginalized,» explained Nancy Becker, MS, RDN, nutrition policy
manager for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, in an email interview.