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Mount Vernon City credits CEP, menu changes for roughly 53,000-meal increase
Summary
At its June 23 meeting the Mount Vernon City Board heard a food-service update from Meg Reed of Aramark saying the districtwide move to the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) and menu changes drove a roughly 53,000 increase in meals served, while staff flagged kitchen space and safety limits at several elementary schools.
Meg Reed, food service director for Aramark, told the Mount Vernon City Board of Education on June 23 that the district’s full-year switch to the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) and changes to menus contributed to a roughly 53,000 increase in meals served over last year. “We definitely offered some different menu varieties, menu choices… and as you can see we really, progressed with those numbers,” Reed said.
The increase was largest at breakfast, which Reed and a district staff member reported rose from about 107,000 to 116,000 meals. Reed said moving two elementaries — Dan Emmett and Wiggins Street — from prepackaged service to a full-service hot-station model is proposed to further raise participation. “Breakfast was our biggest jump,” a district staff member added during…
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