School Committee Seeking to Solve Food Service Deficit
The school department is looking to solve the $150,000-a-year deficit from its cafeteria services.
The North Kingstown School Committee is looking to solve its perennial black hole – the food services budget. For several years running, the school district’s cafeteria service has run $150,000 in the red, causing the school committee to make up the shortfalls in other sectors of the budget. “It’s time we fix it,” said School Committee Member John Boscardin. “We need to stop putting Band-Aids on it. Stop putting duct tape on it. Stop putting bubble gum on it. We need to make it work.” North Kingstown is the only school department in Rhode Island that does its food services in-house. All others have outsourced their services or have used the state-run program. Last year, the school department raised prices of school lunches and …
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john boscardin
11:25 pm on Monday, December 3, 2012
I am told that styrofoam trays were chosen because they are significantly cheaper(up to 3.5 times less expensive) than paper/cardboard trays. Plastic trays are not used because they require heavy duty dishwashers to clean and sterilize and we do not have this equipment. These commercial dishwashers use countless gallons of water and energy to do their job. Additionally these trays tend to "… more ›