Hot Tips & Tricks to Get Kids Excited to Eat!
TIPS AT A GLANCE
• Variety is the spice of life • Young kids are more adventurous than you’d think • Authentic food matters • Utilize bars • Show kids where their food comes from • Talk with the kids • Talk with your legislator • Find a support group
Over the course of your career – whether it’s been 6 months or 25 years – what’s one of your most asked questions?
you do all the things to get the kids into the cafeteria. You make the menus. You select the foods. You manage the staff, the budget, and the utilization of resources. You might have tough conversations with the state department of education, the USDA, or your congressmen. All these things come back to one common thread: I feed kids. It’s harder than ever to please our students right now. Many of our states just reverted to the dreaded full paid, reduced, or free
If you’re like me, it’s “what is your favorite part of the job?”
If your immediate answer isn’t the kids, you’re probably in the wrong field. My second most asked question is “what exactly do you do each day?” and I always wonder where to start. We do a million and one things, but what you do each day should relate back to your passion for the job. “I feed kids.” Maybe you don’t physically serve them (though I bet you do more often than you’d like to admit), but
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