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The Great Apple Crunch encourages healthy eating and supports farm to school and other local food purchasing initiatives throughout the region. It’s also a fun way to connect food and agriculture to classroom curricula and the cafeteria.

Farm-to-School Month in October is the perfect time to introduce lessons on nutrition, sowing, germinating, harvesting, processing, shipping, buying and selling, cooking and economics. This year’s theme is "From Soil to Sea: Nourishing People and Planet."

CKC Good Food has been awarded its Woman-owned Business Enterprise (WBE) certification, assuring procurement professionals of our minority status and complete transparency in our ownership structure.

Joel Wight, Commissary Kitchen Manager, and Chris Olson, Cold Prep/Driver Manager, oversee production of thousands of meals daily in our central commissary.

We recently received an end-of-the-year love letter from Tina Sykes, Nutrition Manager at Cristo Rey-Twin Cities. She highlights how everyone at CKC Good Food is focused on delivering concierge-level service.

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

CKC Good Food’s “allergen-free” menu was created to offer scholars with food allergies delicious options at mealtimes. This menu is free of the most-common allergens and is prepped in a way to minimize the potential for cross contamination.

Ambika Senthilvel, Director of Strategic Planning, has won an Innovation Award from the Association of Nutrition & Foodservice Professionals for her development of our proprietary Tagger system.

At a ceremony last week, CKC Good Food was named one of four winners of the 2024 Torch Awards for Ethics by the Better Business Bureau of Minnesota and North Dakota. The Torch Awards recognize businesses that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to ethics and integrity in all aspects of their operations.