With More Students Eating School Lunches, Program Could Break Even This Year

The food services program in the Hoboken Schools could break even this year after a 50 percent rise in the amount of lunches consumed, said School Board Member Tom Kluepfel on Tuesday night.

If an increase in students who are eating the school lunches persists, he continued, the program could even be profitable next year.

In September 2012, Kluepfel said, 14,000 students ate the school lunches. In April that number had risen to 21,000.

The food services program has seen some trouble in the past,

Since then, the school system has changed its food providers.

"If it stays at this level," Kluepfel said, "the program could be profitable next year."