The Edmonds School District announced Wednesday that due to staff and supply shortages the district is temporarily switching to cold lunch options starting Oct. 18.
“We are really short on staff and we hope to restore our hot entrees soon,” said Food and Nutrition Services Director Megan de Vries. “We are actively training and hiring more staff so we can better meet the needs of our students.”
District Superintendent Gustavo Balderas informed the Edmonds School Board during its Sept. 28 meeting that the district was “short staffed and this is not just us, this is not just a region, this is every person I’ve talked to. And much like you see restaurants or other businesses looking for workers, so are we and we’re doing the best that we can with the staff that we do have.”
Breakfast and lunch are free this year for all Edmonds School District students. You can check student meal menus for each school here
I don’t understand the word *options* in this article and in the headline. According to the text, there are no options, only cold lunches going forward, after Oct. 18th. (At least they are aren’t charging for them this year)
By options that means more than one cold lunch option, is my understanding.
Roger – If you click on the link at the end of the article, you can see the menus show students currently have hot and cold options. Starting 10/18, it sounds like the elementary kids will only be offered the standard 3 cold options- PBJ, turkey & cheese sandwich, and yogurt parfait similar to the half day Friday menu.
Oooops, I forgot to mention those are just the entrees. They still have multiple options for their veggie side, fruit side, and desserts.