08/04/2024
Let's talk school vending..
Since school is about to start back who does school vending?
Public and private?
School vending use to be huge some years ago before the schools had to conform to public school nutritional laws.
After years of keeping the vending machine off during school hours has the school nutritional acts made any difference in what they claim they would?
Before the lights out for vending machines begain schools were making good money to help pay for many different needs and the bottlers were kicking in score boards and coolers as well as share profits with the schools.
Today the kids simply bringing the same products that they were buying from the vending machine in their brown paper bag lunches.
We have a local store close to the high school that the kids simply stop there to get the items they want at school.
So has the salad 🥗 act really helped at all or just cost the schools money in not being able to allow students and parents the freedom to choose what they want to eat and drink?
I think it's time to look at the restrictions placed on school vending and allow vending operators and schools themselves the opportunity to place vending machines back into the hallways and lunch rooms.
Private schools see the value of having automated merchandising as a tool to give students choices and speed lines
Public schools are already so underfunded that if the profits from vending can and have been proven to be a contributing factor to needed capitol...then we should get with lawmakers and get it done.
Associations such as NAMA have a duty to its members to get this issue back in front of represeatives in DC and get the vending machine turned back on in the schools.
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