What’s New in School Lunchrooms : Less Sugar, More From Scratch
While the impact of federal budget cuts and coming nutritional guidelines is uncertain, smaller changes have already arrived in school cafeterias.
School cafeterias in America serve 45 million meals a day. If they were a restaurant chain, it would be the largest in the country.
But no restaurant chain operates under the constraints the school lunchroom has to. Customers (in this case, students) rarely pay more than $3.80 for lunch. The management (in this case, the federal government) restricts added sugar and salt...
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