School restoration costs: location matters

By Michael Ollinger, Katherine Ralston and Joanne Guthrie

Research report economic (Clerk of error-117) No. 52 pp, may 2011

Meals?31. 2 million breakfasts and 11 million of breakfasts?were more than 42 million was used on a typical day of the school in fiscal year 2009 to children by the USDA?s National School Lunch and programs of the school breakfast. Food Network (SFAs) school authorities operate local school feeding programs and deliver meals in schools. SFAs must serve the attractive meals, healthy while covering food, labour and other operating costs, a challenge which can be more difficult for some SFAs than others, due to differences in the cost per meal on sites. Analysis of data on the cost of school meals of a representative sample at the national level, great revealed that geographic variation is important. During the 2002-2003 school year, SFA in the southwest of the United States average, always had more costs restoration by meals that SFAs in other regions. Urban locations had cut costs by meal than their rural and suburban counterparts. The rates of wages and benefits, food expenditures by meals and SFA characteristic mixture of breakfasts and dinners served each contributed to the differences in fresh food services meals on sites. The importance of these factors varies by location.

Keyword (s): The national school lunch program, school breakfast, school meals, school of the cost of meals, ERS, USDA food services program

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