Anyone who’s taken a look at the typical school lunch menu lately knows that the homemade chicken sandwiches and fruit cups of our youth have been replaced by chicken nuggets, jalapeno poppers and a “salad bar” (two bins of limp iceberg lettuce, some pink tomatoes, and loads of ranch dressing). School lunches are more of a dumping ground for excess commodity goods than a carefully orchestrated diet that gives our nation’s youth the best fuel possible. That is, unless your school is lucky enough to subscribe to the wonderful catering services of Revolution Foods.
The Alameda-based firm is run by a two-woman team who dreamt up the idea of a new kind of school lunch while at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Though they only graduated in 2006, their fledgling institutional food supply business now serves healthy meals at over 100 Bay Area schools, and is working on setting up other programs in San Diego and Los Angeles. How’s the food? The word is, delicious enough to tempt kids used to Hot Pockets and Doritos to instead eat wholesome, freshly made selections like lasagna, teriyaki chicken, and tamales, at about $3.50 a lunch. Way better than handing your kid a $5 and telling him to stock up at Taco Bell.
For more information visit revfoods.com.
