With only 1 in 5 children eating school breakfast each day, what can be done to improve participation? The answer: offer Breakfast in the Classroom. The got breakfast? Foundation recently produced a 5-minute video, School Breakfast: More Than a Meal, that extols the benefits of Classroom Breakfast.
As any foodservice director would attest, serving 38,706 breakfasts and 158,269 lunches over 40 days as part of the Summer Feeding Program is no small feat! But at Lee County Public Schools in Fort Myers, Florida, one of the 50 largest school districts in the country, that is par for the course.
got breakfast? Foundation founder and E S Foods President Gary Davis calls for universal mandated classroom breakfast in CNN interview. Watch it here . . .
A feature story and accompanying video in the Sept. 14 USA TODAY puts focus on the benefits of classroom breakfast! Our own Gary Davis contributed to the story. Read the full feature and see video here.