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Introduction There are three important meals that people should eat on a daily bases: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Children spend the majority of their time at school; therefore, most school age children will eat their breakfast and lunch at school. However, school breakfast and lunch programs were not always available to every student. According to Gordon Gunderson (1971), US Department of Agriculture (USDA) established the National School Lunch Act, signed by President Harry Truman in 1946, and pilot the Breakfast Program in 1966 to ensure that children are getting adequate nutrition. In 1904, Robert Hunter’s book, Poverty, was a strong influence that pushed the US effort in feeding hungry and needy children in school, and in that same year, John Spargo published his book, The Bitter Cry of the Children, which spread the awareness of how malnourishment affects physical and mental well-being of children (Gunderson, 1971). Children cannot learn on an empty stomach. They will not be able to focus on course materials, which will results in the decrease of test scores; therefore, school foodservice is very crucial to the wellbeing of every students’ success. As time progress, the foodservice industries has evolved and changes were made according to the increased of labor costs and a critical shortage of skilled food production personnel (Spears & Gregoire, 2004). Conventional foodservice is the traditional operations that were used. It is still the predominate form of foodservice operation; however, many other forms has evolved in order to cut cost and increase efficiency. These new foodservice structures are ready prepared foodservice, commissary foodservice, and assembly/serve foodservice. In the government effort to reduce feder... ... middle of paper ... ...&FlexDataID=37699&PageID=31592 Gunderson, G. (1971). The National School Lunch Program [Background and Development]. In Food and Nutrition Service. Retrieved February 16, 2014, from United States Department of Agriculture website: http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/NSLP-Program%20History.pdf National School Lunch Program. (2013, September). In Food and Nutrition Service. Retrieved February 16, 2014, from United States Department of Agriculture website: http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/NSLPFactSheet.pdf Spears, M., & Gregoire, M. (2004). Food Product Flow. In H. Stephen (Ed.), Foodservice Organizations (5th, pp. 83-102). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc. White, L. (2010). K-12 School Foodservice Revised. Foodservice Equipment & Supplies, 63(1), 28. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.lib.uh.edu/docview/235171159

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