Thanks again Akin....

[barbara]

Ebacon, a couple of thoughts...
Your friend in the catering business needs to know that gov contracts are not set up for big profit margins, especially when it comes to food service. Meeting the nutritional guidelines is not easy and can get costly if he doesn't have bulk buying power or shared overhead.
As for the spot you saw on tv regarding corporations.... I'm not sure what exactly the spot was about, but I can tell you that if a corporation bids on and is awarded a gov contract for food service, they are held to the same standards as anyone else and will have to meet the same nutritional guidelines. For a company like coca cola, that would mean that they could not serve their own product for that lunch.
More than likely, what you saw on tv was that corporations, like coca cola, have made deals with the school system to SELL their products in the cafeteria which is different than the federally subsidized lunch program.