School lunches continue to be impacted by supply chain issues. Eastern Pulaski School Superintendent Dara Chezem told the school board last week that they’re not running out of food, but what students end up getting is often not what was on the printed menus.
“Our cafeteria staff frequently need to substitute menu items for other meal items that are similar and still meet the nutritional requirements,” Chezem said. “For example, they might have called for chicken nuggets, and it ends up being a chicken sandwich that day.”
At the Knox Community School Corporation, Treasurer Kasey Clark expects the challenges – and the complaints that come along with them – to continue. “That’s going to continue to be that way the rest of the year until people get back to work in the factories and in the trucks and at the ports and everywhere else that the food is stuck in or can’t be made,” Clark told the Knox School Board last week.
He said switching vendors wouldn’t help, since they all pull from the same pool of workers.
