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Canned beans and government raisins served as the fruit/vegetable of the day to middle school students. As I was in this line, taking the photo, there was a State Police officer (in uniform) in front of me; he was just shaking his head.

The hot dog lunch. This is exactly how I saw that lunch being served to a high school student. And, it was the only choice available that day.

Custodian or food service worker? She was a food service worker. What image does this present to the faculty and visiting parents about school food?

Where is the food? Yes, the staff of this program actually did not want the students to see the food they were serving. That is exactly the reason that they gave me. Unbelievable.

And a pile of gray, dirty looking dish towels immediately behind the milk cooler on this high school serving line.

Enough said? Try telling these managers that their program needs a lot of work and that they are the problem.

Consulting Review Photos

As I promised I am attaching some photos to this posting. These are all photos taken in school districts over the last year or two. Nothing has been changed, or cropped - the photos are just as I saw them when I viewed the program. In each instance, the program was losing a lot of money and the Superintendent and Board were considering a Management Company Contract.

These photos certainly represent the exception not the norm, but they certainly do speak for themselves.

The 1st photo is of a very thick ham slice on a roll, called a "sub sandwich". Students laughed and made fun of this "sub".

The 2nd is of the fruit/vegetable choice offered to students on a line that had 9 hot wells (yes 9 hot wells), the entree was a sandwich and this was the F/V offering. Students couldn't even take both.

The 3rd was of a nice lady, stationed at a once cash register position, serving cold tomato soup to students. Appetizing?

The 5th and 6th photos were taken at that middle school, where the principal pushed to staff to serve students faster (they had 10 minutes in the line). There were two lines and this is how the staff solved the problem. The photo was taken a full 10 minutes before the start of the lunch period. And this director had no idea why participation was declining, or why the program was losing money. Incidentally this district had lost $80,000.00 the previous year, and the Board wanted a FSMC. When I ran the numbers on the eligible free and reduced price students with applications on file (actually had an application on file), yet did not participate - ready for this? The district lost $2,000,000.00 (that's 2 million dollars) that previous year in free and reduced price reimbursement due to the non-participation by eligible students.

Anyway, enjoy. I may decide to add photos every week or two. Incidentally I have as many great photos of wonderful looking and innovative lines as I have of the "bad" ones.