Offsite Meal Service Delivery Models: Visions and Challenges
June 4
3:00 – 3:30pm
Room 518A
If schools in your area don’t have kitchens, what are the ways of delivering universal meal programs that are healthy and delicious, prepared in offsite locations? In this session you will hear from 2 organizations offering school meal programs: one non-profit and one for-profit. Join us to learn and ask questions about a range of topics: building relationships with school staff, volunteers, and students; differing payment models and managing orders; navigating logistics and distribution from offsite kitchens to schools. How can pilot projects effectively scale up within a community, or a business scale from one province to another? Learn about approaches that can suit your context.
Access the presenters’ slides here:
Bio:
RUTHIE BURD founded the Lunch Lady Group in 1993, now Canada’s largest national provider of individually prepared meals for kids in elementary schools. This award-winning service has grown through franchising and today the Lunch Lady is available in 4 provinces. The company is thrilled that the National School Food Program is finally here. The whole team is committed to contributing their knowledge, love of tech and passion for supporting healthier school food environments to make it easy for all children to access the same wholesome meals, regardless of means.
ANDY MILLS, Executive Director- In his seven years leading The Food Sharing Project, Andy has applied responsive and innovative solutions to meet the ever-changing needs of students. The Food Sharing Project is a non-profit in Kingston Ontario offering “Lunch Is Ready”, providing 10,000 meals per month in various formats, for elementary and high schools.
BRENDA MOORE, long-time Chair of the Board, has overseen the incredible growth and change of the organization. Noor Ul-Huda supervises and guides our student nutrition programs and applying her experience as a chef and with youth empowerment. With a background in the food industry and engaging volunteers, Emma Cox leads our Food Hubs by creating highly nutritious, cost effective, student-friendly menus.