A food vendor that provides lunches for a number of school districts in the Bay Area and Central announced it's shutting down this week because it cannot keep up with demands.
Officials from the Miller Creek School district in San Rafael told families Wednesday that it received a notice from LunchMaster the day before saying the food vendor will be temporarily suspending all breakfast and lunch orders from August 25th to September 5th. Service is currently set to resume on Tuesday, Sept. 6.
The San Carlos School District and a number of other surrounding districts who contracted with LunchMaster were also impacted by the shutdown. The company said it is suspending service to a total of 120 schools. LunchMaster's announcement comes during the first school session since the state adopted a free-meal program for all of its public schools, which costs $54 million annually. Any student can qualify for a free meal, no matter how much their family makes in income.
"If you're a hungry child, you're not going to learn well," said State Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Democrat representing Berkeley, after the program was approved."Why should we have to go through a bureaucratic hassle to get a kid fed, when we could just have universal meals?"
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