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Phil Palfrey: Kaitao Intermediate School Principal on school lunch provider being placed into liquidation · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Overheated, late bland, beige, melted, plastic covered food. We've heard
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  Speaker 1: all the headlines about the school lunch program, and now
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  Speaker 1: we hear the major school lunch provider, La Belle, has
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  Speaker 1: been placed into liquidation. The Belle has contracted to deliver
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five thousand meals a day. This
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  Speaker 1: responsibility will now fall on Compass, who are the only
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  Speaker 1: other school lunch provider. They're also helping out La Belle
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  Speaker 1: with their liquidation and their workers. It's a good only
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  Speaker 1: Compass A Katol Intermediate Principal Phil Palfrey was on the
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  Speaker 1: working committee to set up the lunch program and he
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  Speaker 1: joins me, now, good morning to your film.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. How worried should we be about this liquidation?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. For me, it just seems to
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  Speaker 2: be a one aspect that just shows how bad the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing was. It just shows that well. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: we interviewed LaBelle about when the program first began, when
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  Speaker 2: a doing a government brought it in, and we just
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  Speaker 2: felt that they went up to the scratch, up to
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  Speaker 2: scratch then and we appointed at that time we were
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  Speaker 2: allowed to appoint our own provider, and we appointed a
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  Speaker 2: local person who ended up doing it for us for
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  Speaker 2: the for all the time until last year when they
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  Speaker 2: were cut and they did a fantastic job, and when
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  Speaker 2: you've heard from the Bell again, until this whole new
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  Speaker 2: arrangement began, and you know, we didn't really know them
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  Speaker 2: that well, it just didn't work. It hasn't worked.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't going forward with what we have. It seems
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  Speaker 1: to me that you think the Bell was the company
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  Speaker 1: causing problem. So the question we now have we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about lunches next week, is can Compass meet the demand
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  Speaker 1: on its own.
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea. I have no idea. I don't
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  Speaker 2: really have great faith in it, and I just well,
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  Speaker 2: my only wishes that would just go back to what
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  Speaker 2: it was before. It apparently is a saving at one
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  Speaker 2: hundred of dollars, but I don't know if that's We
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  Speaker 2: don't know if that's going to work out to be
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  Speaker 2: that saving in the first place. But I do know
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  Speaker 2: that three dollars a meal is just ridiculous and it
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  Speaker 2: hasn't worked, and I just would love to go back
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  Speaker 2: to the old system, and I think our country should
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  Speaker 2: afford it and could afford it.
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  Speaker 1: You were on the working committee that set up the
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  Speaker 1: lunch program in the first place. So are you just
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  Speaker 1: resistant to change?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm not. I'm an older principle, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: not resistant to change. I was assured that the program
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  Speaker 2: would be very similar to what we have now, so
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  Speaker 2: I was prepared to see how it panned out. But
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  Speaker 2: right from the very start, I saw the quality of
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  Speaker 2: the food and I saw the reaction from my students
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  Speaker 2: and my kids. Are We're a load des sool low
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  Speaker 2: equity school, a high equity school, and our kids need
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  Speaker 2: the food. There's no doubt about that, but they just
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  Speaker 2: I just haven't two of them don't like it actually,
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, that's just a good program.
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  Speaker 1: Phil, thank you so much for getting up early for us.
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  Speaker 1: Phil is the Cotel Intermediate Principle up North and was
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  Speaker 1: on the program that set up the lunches in the
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  Speaker 1: first place back in the day.
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