A New Future for School Food

Cafeterias will never be the same — and that’s a good thing

Andrea Strong
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6 min readJul 14, 2020

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Middle school kids holding their trays wait in a school lunch line.
Photo: Yellow Dog Productions/The Image Bank/Getty Images

What will fall look like for New York City’s 1.1 million public school children? Blended learning? Staggered schedules? Rotating days? While not much is certain, this much is: Crowded, raucous cafeterias are a thing of the past. Our children, for now at least, will no longer be bundled together at tables, eating…

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Andrea Strong
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Andrea Strong is a journalist who covers the intersection of food, policy, business and law. She is also the founder of the NYC Healthy School Food Alliance.