A case for why schools need real kitchens. They create jobs for people who need them, feed communities better than frozen meals, and become lifelines when disasters hit. Newer schools are ditching kitchens entirely.
Schools are a very important part of the DNA of our communities, of our societies. Every school should be having a full functioning kitchen, a full functioning kitchen with men and women working in this kitchen that they are proud of feeding the future of America. That we are able to employ people that maybe are homeless and we teach them a new, through training, a new profession. of veterans that want to keep giving back to their country and some of them enjoy cooking and they are part of that solution. And what you see, I was in Baltimore and the people working in Baltimore in the school system, they are amazing people, amazing individuals. They give their best. But in the last few years, many of the new schools, they've been created and they are open almost without a kitchen. Only with a room that is to reheat things that come from the outside. Deep fryers and microwaves, yeah. You can do that because it's affordable, it's cheap, but in one moment the level out the quality starts going down and down and down. And then what happens? What's the place in America when it's a hurricane or when something happens that very often ends becoming the shelter in place? for people that their homes or their properties were damaged. Schools. And all of a sudden you have a school that is hosting on their gym thousand people with no kitchen to feed those people.
