According to the district’s senior director of student nutrition, a shortage of cafeteria managers has essentially closed lunch rooms in a number of schools.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Employees at the Anchorage School District’s Student Nutrition building were busy Tuesday morning assembling frozen food into ready-to-cook packages. Not every school, however, will be receiving a delivery of these meals — including Bayshore Elementary.According to Walker, Bayshore has been without hot food since the school year began. The door to the cafeteria remains closed while students consume their lunches in their classrooms.
This year the school district has been averaging 22,000 meals daily — including breakfast and lunch — which is down 8,000 meals over previous years, where the average had been 30,000 a day. Losing the ability to serve hot meals also comes at a cost, with the district estimating $2 million in lost reimbursement revenue.
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