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Commercial contractors win school lunch tender
20 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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Eat My Lunch, whose chef Michael Meredith was pictured at Māngere Central School, is one of only two non-commercial operators to win new contracts for free school lunches. Photo / Jason Oxenham.
Big companies have won most of the contracts to provide free school lunches next year, despite ministers initial hopes that the scheme would create jobs for small-scale community groups.
The social enterprise Eat My Lunch and the University of Canterbury Students Association, a registered charity, are the only non-commercial operators that have won contracts to supply school lunches - to 19,412 students in 53 schools - from the start of the new school year. ....

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