The school cafeteria is the latest victim of the supply chain slowdown, leaving nutrition administrators scrambling to get proper meals on the table for students as they return to the classroom.
after retailers have already begun warning that some products may not make it to the shelves before the holidays.
"Well, we're struggling, you know, we can get food, but we're having a lot of outages and shortages," said Stephanie Dillard, child nutrition director at Enterprise City Schools in Alabama. Schools served almost 500 million lunches on average per month from September 2018 to May 2019. The number dropped during the pandemic-scarred 2020-21 school year to about 330 million lunches per month, according to the USDA.
But if schools can't consistently deliver the food they have told students and parents is on the menu, he worries families won't trust them to provide the meal. The industry has been experiencing what experts call the bullwhip effect, where companies that have pulled back their operations seek to rapidly scale up when demand surges, leaving suppliers scrambling to keep up, said Meghan Cieslak, the association's communications director.
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