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School dinners 'have improved'
11 Nov 2009

Some schools in the UK have implemented cashless catering technology in order to make buying lunchtime meals more convenient.

And those which have done so may be among the institutions that are now providing better quality food.

Indeed, School Food Trust Chief Executive Judy Hargadon said that the food served up by UK schools "has been transformed" of late.

"The historical decline in take-up of school lunches has been halted, with most parents telling us that they think the quality of school meals is good and that it has improved in the last three years," she added.

Her comments, reported by the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA), come at the start of National School Meals Week - an initiative that is trying to get even more pupils across the country to start eating healthy food from the canteen at lunchtime.

As institutions such as Sheldon School in Wiltshire continue to use cashless catering technology when dishing up grub for children, food providers may wish to note that roast dinner - with sponge pudding and custard for dessert - has been voted the favourite British school meal in a LACA survey.