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We hosted nearly 250 people for our spring taste tests and facility tours.

Annual taste-testing sessions with scholars and staff members at our client schools provide us valuable feedback on items under consideration for our menus. Recently, Seven Hills Preparatory Academy held one such taste-testing session with 18 scholars in grades 6-8.

Turn up the volume for your school lunch with these tools and resources for National School Lunch Week (October 14-18) (#NSLW19)!

CKC Good Food hosts both a one-day training session and a ServSafe certification class for school food service personnel, preparing them for a successful school meal program next fall.

CKC's executive chef creates our school lunch menus with a "commodities first" mindset to reduce our schools' overall food costs. When your school receives your USDA Foods survey this spring, contact General Manager Laurie Yohn, SNS to help you designate which foods to choose.

The USDA issued a final rule on flexibilities granted to the nutritional guidelines governing child nutrition programs, including the National School Lunch Program. Basically, the provisions granted on a temporary basis in 2017 have now become permanent.

By following CKC's school closing procedures, client schools can minimize wasted food and associated costs.

CKC is rolling out new lunch menu entrees, new menu rotations and a new take on school breakfast for 2018-19.