Some schools are and may be dealing with a school lunch shortage due to supply chain issues.
Many schools are having to revise menus at the last minute because they are not receiving their meal shipments on time.
School lunch shortages and changes are also being caused by a lack of delivery drivers and problems producing the meals.
“We haven’t had a 100% head count school season in 15 months. It’s going to blow the doors open,” said Andy Mercier, chief executive at Merchants Foodservice, a distributor that serves K-12 schools in Alabama and Mississippi.
Corn dogs, hamburger beef patties and other items that require more hands-on labor are hard to come by, Mr. Mercier said, because manufacturers are short-handed. A salsa supplier recently told his company that it doesn’t have enough workers to produce sauces for schools. Merchants Foodservice is itself running low on lunch trays as manufacturers give priority to takeout trays for restaurants, he said.
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