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Prioritizing Local & American Produce
CKC Good Food prides itself on providing the freshest, most tasteful food possible to our client sites. Our menus feature a wide variety of local and American products, including seasonal fruits and vegetables.
RSVP Today for Spring Taste Tests
We encourage you to assemble a group of those you serve, family members and board members to come to our commissary for our spring taste tests and tours!
Taste Tests & Facility Tours: Look Behind-the-Scenes of Your School Meals
One of our favorite times of year is approaching - the season when we welcome groups to our commissary for tours and taste tests of foods we're evaluating for our menus. Our guests always give us very honest, valuable feedback that only makes CKC Good Food and our menus better. And guests are generally engaged as we tour them through our massive kitchen and warehouse. We invite schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program to bring a group to our commissary for a session between March 3 and May 22.
Vegetarian Menu Refreshed
While only about 10% of the meals prepped at our main commissary are for our hot vegetarian menu, our menu development and recipe team doesn't neglect refreshing the menu. They aim to offer a menu that has a variety of tasty options, including some ethnic meals, such as bean and cheese pupusas, cheese quesadillas and bean & cheese burritos.
Tailoring Menus to Specific Eaters
One of the many benefits of having CKC Good Food manage the daily food service operations for the kitchen at your site is having a menu tailor-made for those you serve. It's one of the many ways we ensure maximum participation in your food service program.
Pizza Program Popular with Schools and Students
Friday mornings are calmer than most days at CKC Good Food’s central commissary. Our ovens and drivers are less busy because much of our daily lunch responsibilities shift to a network of pizza places around town. The majority of our client partners who choose to offer pizza on their menus serve it on Fridays, with a few offering it on Wednesdays or Thursdays, either weekly or bi-weekly. Our 7-day-a-week sites may offer it on Sundays. Whenever it's served, pizza is a popular option -- 66% of our client sites serve pizza.