Parent fumes at primary school's new 'constant potato' lunch menu for pupils
dailystar.co.ukCovid-19 cases, reports Leicestershire Live."During the autumn term we were suffering with very high levels of staff sickness but we managed to maintain good service until Christmas,” the catering manager wrote in a letter sent to parents.“With the ongoing pandemic and the increase in Omicron cases, this situation worsened after Christmas."We have robust contingency plans in place to deal with staff shortages and these plans involve a simplified menu which can be delivered with fewer staff."While we are experiencing high levels of staff absence, we will be introducing a simplified menu.
This will start from Monday 17 January 2022."A simplified menu will ensure we can continue to support the seamless delivery of good quality, hot, healthy school meals at your school every day."But one of the parents – who has chosen to remain anonymous – has hit out at the move.“It's gone from being a varied, fairly interesting menu to being pretty much constant potatoes,” the parent told Leicestershire Live."On one day, one of the menu options is a jacket potato with chicken mayonnaise that you can have with a side of jacket potato."On other days, you can order a jacket potato with jacket wedges, creamy mashed potatoes, chips, minted potatoes and parsley potatoes."I understand that everyone is dealing with staff shortages, but why does that mean that our kids now have to exist on a diet of potatoes cooked in different ways?"It's especially tough for vegetarian or vegan kids.
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