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Bridgeport nutrition services details equipment upgrades, meal growth and new service tech
Summary
At a March 5 Facilities Committee meeting, Food & Nutrition Services staff outlined kitchen repairs, new equipment, software upgrades and service changes the district says have helped boost meal counts and change delivery methods; committee members asked for budget breakdowns and next steps.
Guillermo Steele, food and nutrition services presenter (Bridgeport School District), told the Facilities Committee on March 5 that the district has undertaken equipment replacements, kitchen renovations and technology changes intended to improve meal quality, safety and operational efficiency.
Steele said the department is organized as “one department with five sub-departments working together to ensure all meals are served,” and described recent capital and operational changes including replacement packing equipment (installed December 2023), added QR codes on kitchen equipment tied to a facilities work-order system, and use of Titan software for inventory and menu planning. He said those changes support a goal of serving more consistent, higher-quality meals to students.
The presentation detailed several problems the department is addressing: refrigeration equipment at the nutrition center that dates to the 1970s and relies on a water-cooling tower, frequent exhaust failures at school kitchens, and broken packaging machinery that required purchasing prepackaged meals at higher cost before the new machine arrived. Steele said the new packaging equipment helps the…
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