By KEN CARPENTER
Great Bend Post
Over 2,100 lunches are served every day in Great Bend’s public schools. Breakfast is also provided to more than 700 Great Bend students. All of those meals are prepared at the school district’s central kitchen on Broadway Avenue and then shipped out to the seven schools in the district.
There were several job openings for food service workers at the beginning of the school year. According to Food Service Director Kristi Alvord, that problem has improved.
"We’ve been pushing the positions out there on Facebook and other websites,” Alvord said. “They’re slowing filling so we’re getting closer to being fully staffed which is great.”
Alvord says help is still needed to serve the food at the schools.
"Now we just have part-time positions,” Alvord explained. “Just looking for somebody that can fill in to serve at lunchtime. So anywhere from two-and-a-half to three hours a day.”
All meals will be free to every public-school student in Great Bend at least until the end of this school year. Money from COVID-19 relief is providing funding for the meals.