Innovative school nutrition teams transform the challenges of curbside meal service into exciting new opportunities.

When it comes to ramping up curbside and delivery meal service, the restaurant industry has nothing on you, our nation’s school nutrition professionals. From high-volume bundling of student meals during emergency feeding to creating “Hello Fresh”-style meal kits for families, your innovation and ingenuity in the face of the global pandemic is unmatched.

After schools closed in March, it quickly became clear that daily curbside meal service presented a host of challenges for both families and school nutrition staff. Asking families to pick up meals on a daily basis was an added burden in their increasingly stressful lives. Daily service was also a difficult responsibility for school foodservice teams, presenting an inefficient use of staff time and a greater risk for employees striving to stay safe and limit their own exposure to the virus, while ensuring that students—especially those from food-insecure households—received much-needed meals...