Families
around the country are finding new options for their children's midday meal
thanks to a growing number of delivery options catering to students. Kiddos
Catering in Chicago adopts a method of providing restaurant meals to schools
that contract with it. Owner Michelle Moses and her staff work with area
restaurants to create a variety of kid-friendly choices and deliver the meals
to the schools five days a week. Parents select the lunches from an online
order form that lists the day's featured restaurant and its menu choices.
"Each
day is a different restaurant with six to 10 menu options," she said.
"It offers so much choice to kids." The service appeals to parents
because they think their children are less likely to toss out restaurant food
than a packed lunch, Ms. Moses said. The schools appreciate that Moses handles
the ordering, payment, pickup, and food distribution in the cafeteria.
"Schools really want to be in the business of educating kids," she
said. "They don't want to be in the food and beverage(餐饮) business."
That
doesn't mean that schools always like it when teens (or parents) take it upon
themselves to order food through phone apps. Many schools have banned that
practice, citing safety concerns about delivery drivers showing up at school
unannounced and the burden of tracking down students to alarm them that their
meals have arrived.
"These
types of deliveries pose an unnecessary security risk for students and
staff," said Bernard Watson, director of community relations for Gwinnett
County Public Schools in Suwanee, Ga. "In addition, our award-winning
school nutrition program provides students with a wide variety of tasty,
nutritious meals on-site, so there is no need to order food from outside."
Jacob
Levin, a recent graduate of Bexley High School in Bexley, Ohio, relied on a sub
shop to deliver a sandwich to him during lunchtime meetings or other
appointments that conflicted with his lunch period. "It was a convenient
option. In most cases, I would not have been able to eat at school if it weren't
for the delivery option," he said. "Having a restaurant-quality sub
also was much more enjoyable than cafeteria food."
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