Fast Food in Schools, and Some Other Cafeteria Numbers From 2008
After sampling my way through the School Nutrition Association's food expo earlier this month, I picked up a copy of the organization's annual survey of school cafeterias. I just got around to leafing through it, and some of the numbers jumped out at me. The most shocking piece of the report ...
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July 26, 2009
Spending Away on In-School Marketing
By Deborah Lehmann — Food and Beverage companies spent close to $186 million on in-school marketing to children in 2006, according to a recent report by the Federal Trade Commission. The industry pumped money into cafeteria products, vending machines, school events, buses and athletic uniforms, pouring over 11 percent of their youth ...
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February 18, 2009
Increasing the Lunch Count, with a Little Help from McDonald’s
By Deborah Lehmann — On a normal day, about one-third of students in Pleasanton, Calif. buy their lunch at school. But a couple times a month, district Director of Child Nutrition Services Frank Castro can get up to 80 percent of students to buy from the cafeteria. How does he do it? ...
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February 13, 2009
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