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Students Learn Business of Food at School
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012Many high school students at San Dieguito Academy in San Diego, Calif., weren’t so keen on lunch in the cafeteria – that is until their peers started making it. At Mosaic, the school cafe, students buy ingredients, develop menus, cook and sell panini and other from-scratch foods in a self-supporting business. Sometimes the staff even offers up live lunchtime entertainment.
“I feel better eating a fresh panini than a pizza that’s been sitting under a heat lamp for several hours,” Sonja Gerber, a senior at the school and frequent Mosaic customer, told reporter Linda McIntosh of the Union-Times.
Senior Rachel Murphy prepares panini at the Mosaic Cafe at the San Dieguito Academy in San Diego, Calif., where she's a business management student. (Photo by CRISSY PASCUAL, San Diego Union-Tribune)
Mosaic Cafe Opens at San Dieguito Academy
Business management students at San Dieguito Academy in San Diego, Calif., have opened the Mosaic Cafe at school. (Photo by JAMIE SCOTT LYTLE, North County Times)
Hand Up Youth Food Pantry Volunteers
Leaders of Hand Up Teen Youth Pantry in San Diego with donated goods. (Photo from HandUpFoodPantry.com)
San Diego Teens Run Food Pantry
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010A funny thing happened to Bradley Tradonsky, 18, during his quest to jack up community service hours in order to improve his chances as college applicant. Bradley volunteered to feed families at the Hand Up Youth Food Pantry in San Diego, and then found he was making such a difference he didn’t want to leave. Bradley is one of 30 teens who gather, bag, and distribute food, as well as run the back end of the pantry business, from budgeting to fundraising.
Shelly Hahne, supervisor at the food pantry, told San Diego Union reporter John Wilkens that many teens begin their work at the pantry with preconceived notions about the hungry. “They think it’s just the person holding the sign by the freeway,” she said. “Then when they are out interacting with the clients, they see military families, pregnant teens, seniors. It’s absolutely everyone in the community.”
Teens at Hand Up Youth Food Pantry in San Diego, CA (Photo by: Hand Up Youth Food Pantry)
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