HEALTHY Study School Food Service Revenue and Expense Report

BACKGROUND: Food service directors have a concern that federal reimbursement is not meeting the demands of increasing costs of healthier meals. The purpose of this article is to report the food option changes and the annual revenues and expenses of the school food service environment. METHODS: The H...

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Published in:The Journal of school health 2012-09, Vol.82 (9), p.417-423
Main Authors: Treviño, Roberto P., Pham, Trang, Mobley, Connie, Hartstein, Jill, Ghormli, Laure El, Songer, Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis of Variance
California
child and adolescent health
Chronic Disease
chronic diseases
Company financing
Costs
Dining Facilities
Eating Habits
Eligibility
Expenditures
Federal Government
Feeding Behavior
Finance
Financial Support
Food
Food - economics
Food - statistics & numerical data
Food service
Goals
Government regulation
Health aspects
Health Behavior
Health costs
Health foods
Health policy
Health Promotion
Healthy food
Humans
Income
Intervention
Laws, regulations and rules
Lunch Programs
Marketing
Meals
Medical policy
Middle Schools
Minority Groups
Natural foods
North Carolina
Nutrition
Nutritional aspects
Nutritional Status
Oregon
Organizational Policy
Pennsylvania
Physical activity
Physical Activity Level
Records (Forms)
Restaurants - economics
Restaurants - statistics & numerical data
Revenue
Sales
school food services
School Health Services
School Policy
Schools
Side effects
Students
Texas
United States
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Summary:BACKGROUND: Food service directors have a concern that federal reimbursement is not meeting the demands of increasing costs of healthier meals. The purpose of this article is to report the food option changes and the annual revenues and expenses of the school food service environment. METHODS: The HEALTHY study was a 3‐year (2006 to 2009) randomized, cluster‐designed trial conducted in 42 middle schools at 7 field centers. The schools selected had at least 50% of students who were eligible for free or reduced‐price lunch or who belonged to a minority group. A randomly assigned half of the HEALTHY schools received a school health intervention program consisting of 4 integrated components: nutrition, physical activity, behavioral knowledge and skills, and social marketing. The nutrition component consisted of changing the meal plans to meet 5 nutrition goals. Revenue and expense data were collected from income statements, federal meal records, à la carte sale sheets, school store sale sheets, donated money/food records, and vending machines. RESULTS: Although more intervention schools reached the nutritional goals than control schools, revenues and expenses were not significantly different between groups. CONCLUSION: The HEALTHY study showed no adverse effect of school food policies on food service finances.
ISSN:0022-4391
1746-1561
DOI:10.1111/j.1746-1561.2012.00717.x