Boston Schools Lunch Bid Process Under Fire

"Critics have long taken aim at food served in many of Boston’s elementary school cafeterias: processed, frozen meals sealed in plastic and trucked hundreds of miles from cavernous factories far from New England.

"Bids are due this week on a new multimillion-dollar prepared-food contract that could change the menu for 21,000 of the city’s youngest students. But requirements dictated by school administrators will make it difficult — if not impossible — for any firm to win the three-year job, other than the same company that has held the contract for six years, Preferred Meal Systems..."

For the full article from the Boston Globe, go here.