The Wilson County, Tenn. school board voted to consolidate the snack vendors responsible for restocking the vending machines in the district, according to The Tennessean in Nashville, Tenn. For the full story, click here.
Editor’s Insight: School health coordinators and foodservice directors are taking a bigger role in developing school vending standards. Many school districts are also realizing that to offer more nutritional products, it makes sense to centralize the decision making for vending service.
Consolidating the vending contract among different buildings is one way to accomplish this. Another way many school districts find helpful is to operate their own vending machines, as reported in the May Automatic Merchandiser. To read the article, click here. http://www.vendingmarketwatch.com/article/10689101/more-schools-embrace-self-op-vending-to-promote-nutrition 05-24-12 By Elliot Maras
