{"id":4123,"date":"2010-11-23T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2010-11-23T20:20:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T03:20:34","slug":"grist-dragging-boulder-school-food-into-the-computer-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=4123","title":{"rendered":"Grist | Dragging Boulder school food into the computer age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/grist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4125\" title=\"grist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/grist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/grist.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/grist-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When she arrived in May 2008 to investigate food service in Boulder  schools, Beth Collins found that the cooks had to send paper purchase  orders to the school system&#8217;s central warehouse to get the ingredients  they needed to cook meals. The nutrition services department and the  warehouse had computer systems, but they didn&#8217;t talk to each other. A  nutritionist who wrote menus for the schools entered them by hand on an  Excel spreadsheet.<\/p>\n<p>For Collins, who eventually would be tasked with turning Boulder&#8217;s  neglected food-service infrastructure into a smooth-running machine,  what she first saw there was like stepping into another era. But that&#8217;s  hardly unusual for U.S. schools and especially school-food operations.  They&#8217;re at the end of the line when it comes to adopting modern  technology. And that helps account for why they have trouble making ends  meet under the federally-funded school meals program.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Agriculture requires all school districts to  maintain meticulous records of all the purchases they make as a way of  proving that they have actually made the meals for which they claim  federal reimbursements. Collins said she was in a school district in  Mississippi recently where they kept something they called &#8220;The Red  Book,&#8221; meaning a ledger in which they recorded all of their purchases  with pen and ink.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article in Grist: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/food-2010-11-22-dragging-school-foor-into-the-computer-age\">Dragging Boulder school food into the computer age<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When she arrived in May 2008 to investigate food service in Boulder schools, Beth Collins found that the cooks had to send paper purchase orders to the school system&#8217;s central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[190,217],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-bvsd","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}