Dive Brief:
- Whitsons Culinary Group has won a $12.2 million foodservice contract with the Boston Public Schools, and will restore a salad-bar program that the school district had shuttered.
- City officials killed off the salad program because of costs, and then reinstituted the sale of snack food during lunch -- moves that had infuriated parents.
- New York-based Whitsons' bid was selected over those by rivals Preferred Meals of Berkeley, Il, and Revolution Foods of Oakland, CA.
Dive Insight:
It would appear that Boston Public Schools learned their lesson in the salad-bar debacle. Earlier this summer, the school superintendent asked the three bidders for the foodservice contract to resubmit their bids and place a new emphasis on healthy offerings.
There's a lesson in this for politicians who are willing to heed it: Never mess with parents, or generals.