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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS uses Chartwells at our school:  http://www.chartwellsschools.com

And the DC Healthy Schools act is pretty clear about healthy food in schools. 
http://dchealthyschools.org

Now, does it taste good?  Dunno.[/quote]

My DCPS school used Revolution Foods one year and Chartwells the next. Both were pretty mediocre, there were pros and cons for both.  Revolution foods did a lot of stupid things like serving sunflower seeds which made a big mess, or gigantic oranges that the children had a hard time peeling.  Their menus did not really consider the needs of small children. They gave the kids whole grain snacks like whole grain goldfish. Chartwells offered fruits or vegetables as snacks. When they gave away oranges, they were the tiny cuties that were easy for little hands to peel. However  Chartwells had a really weird approach to alternative menus . They  (or at least the cafeteria workers at one particular school) had this weird thing where they'd make about 10-15 vegetarian entrees but instead of waiting for kids to ask for a vegetarian alternative they'd just randomly pass them out, no rhyme or reason. It was confusing for the kids if they hated what was being served and saw a classmate getting a quesadilla or cheese sandwich.  Revolution foods offered sun butter and jelly sandwiches to kids who asked.

In any case while the food being served was nominally healthy the kids tended to throw most of it the trash. A few kids would bring in lunchables. Many more children would bring in a huge, family sized bag of chips and share them with friends. I used to tell the kids that they had to eat get a lunch to go with the chips, not just eat a bag of chips for lunc.  It often created lots of issues because you'd have a whole table of children begging one or two kids for the chips. I guess parents bought them so their kid would feel popular?

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