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Child Nutrition Meal Cost Methodology Study

Resource type
Research
Research type
Assessing/Improving Operations
Cost Study
Resource Materials
PDF Icon Summary (56.64 KB)
PDF Icon Final Report (3.29 MB)
PDF Icon Appendix (2.53 MB)

The study collected data on-site on food, labor, and other meal production costs for a five day period. A major goal was to test the feasibility of identifying meal production costs that were not charged to the SFA account (to obtain full costs) and directly allocating costs to different SFA activities.

Page updated: December 01, 2021