Salad Bars to Schools

Installing a salad bar in schools is proven to increase the amount of fruits and vegetables students eat each day. Plus, it cuts food and packaging waste while offering schools more opportunities to source produce from local farms.

Our Salad Bars to Schools gives K–12 schools the equipment and technical assistance they need to successfully implement salad bars.

Overview

With 31 million children eating school lunch every day, school meals play an important role in kids’ access to fresh fruits and vegetables. 

Incorporating salad bars into school lunches can increase children’s consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables. Our Salad Bars to Schools program grants K–12 schools salad bar equipment and technical assistance to help schools offer students a wider variety of fresh fruits and vegetables. 

Salad bars also help schools reduce food and packaging waste, and create more opportunities to source produce from local farms.

Details

Salad Bars to Schools grant packages include one portable 82-inch, five-well insulated salad bar on wheels; two tray slides; five pan chillers; pans and divider bars for a variety of configurations; and 16 serving tongs.

The grant package also includes two course registrations for our Salad Bars in Schools course on our School Food Institute online learning platform.

Grant packages are valued at approximately $4,794. 

Eligibility

Any district or independent school participating in the National School Lunch Program is eligible to apply for a Salad Bars to Schools grant package. The grant package is tailored for schools that serve at least 100 reimbursable meals daily.