GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Green Bay Public Schools is looking to raise the price of school meals by a nickel for the upcoming school year.
It’s a new approach to lunch that officials hope will attract more students to eat in the cafeteria.
It’s not your traditional cafeteria food.
“We have full salad bars at our schools. Not just fruits and vegetable bars” said Lynette Zalec.
Zalec tells FOX 11 Green Bay public schools want to change the food it’s serving kids, and how it’s serving it.
“Instead of the students coming to the cafeteria, we will come to them.”
Fresh food kiosks and a second breakfast opportunity are some ideas food service director Zalec has for the district.
“In our secondary schools, we’re offering to those students that weren’t able to get breakfast on time or just weren’t hungry at the time.”
She proposed a 5 cent increase to breakfast and lunch meals to keep up with growing costs.
“To cover the cost of food, the increased cost of packaging, and to also cover the sustainability that we are doing within our district.”
Things like switching to biodegradable trays.
School board member Kristina Shelton tells FOX 11 they couldn’t vote on the price increase at last week’s meeting because the report didn’t provide enough details.
“We’re definitely looking for more information as to how that will impact school meals.”
Shelton said once the board has the information it does plan to vote on the proposal.
“At the end of the day food needs to be affordable for our communities and it needs to be nutritious.”
The price increase would not impact kids who receive free or reduced lunch.
The board is expected to vote on the increase next month.
