Meal Sites Added and Drive-thru Available at Some Sites
Springfield Public Schools food service provider, Sodexo, announced this week that starting on Monday, April 6th, meals for Springfield students will be expanded to include dinner; and that two new meal sites have been added. The free grab-n-go meal service will now include breakfast, lunch and dinner at 17 sites throughout the City.
Sodexo also announced that meal service next week will be Monday through Thursday only because meal sites will close in observance of Good Friday on Friday, April 10th. However, meal distribution next Thursday will include four breakfasts, four lunches and four dinners so that students will have meals for Friday and the weekend. Sodexo will provide bags to carry the meals home in observance of Governor Baker’s current order to cease use of reusable bags, which families have been bringing to collect the meals. Sodexo also announced the addition of Sumner Avenue School, 45 Sumner Avenue, as a meal distribution site and that Milton Bradley School, 22 Mulberry Street, will be added as meal distribution site as a replacement for the South End Middle School location. Additionally, a drive-thru/drive-up feature has been added for meal pick-up at Indian Orchard, Milton Bradley, Sumner, Talmadge and Warner sites. All changes take effect Monday, April 6th.
The full list of Springfield school meal sites now include: Bowles, Boland, Brookings, Chestnut Middle School, Commerce, Dorman, Glickman, Indian Orchard, Kensington, Liberty, Lincoln, Milton Bradley, Rebecca Johnson, Sumner, Talmadge, Warner and Washington schools. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are distributed together between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. weekdays.
Parents, guardians, and grandparents may pick up meals for school age children in their care at any of the 17 sites across the city. The student does not need to be physically present for the adult to pick up a meal. The adult will be asked at the point of pickup if the meals are for school age students. Identification is not required. Meals are available to persons with disabilities, over age 18, who participate in school programs for people who are mentally or physically disabled.
