New Center Makes 133K Lunches For Students
Facility Offers Healthier Options In Less Time
POSTED: 9:42 am PDT May 9,
2008
UPDATED: 11:53 am PDT May 9,
2008
LAS VEGAS -- For those who think it's tricky getting dinner on the table every day, try whipping up about 133,000 lunches a day. That's the volume the Clark County School District cafeterias have to pump out five times a week.To help meet the demand of the growing student body, school officials have opened a new food service central kitchen near East Tropical Way and Hollywood Boulevard.In addition to the hundreds of thousands of lunches, the center will also produce 41,000 breakfasts and 3,100 snacks on a daily basis."(In the new kitchen), we'll be able to use more USDA commodity products, where before we were more of a packing facility and had to use a lot of prepared frozen products," Sue Hoggan, with the school district, said.
The new facility will also offer the district the ability to offer students healthier foods in less time.On average, the kitchens for the Clark County School District produce more than 32 million meals -- including 16 million chicken nuggets -- and 17 million cartons of chocolate milk annually.
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