Remember the key to having a successful
School Breakfast Program is to have FUN while
still providing a nutritious start to a student’s day. You know your students
best so customize your breakfast program to meet their needs.
Make
Breakfast More Convenient:
For Grab n’ Go Breakfast, use a cart to serve
breakfast in the hallways or at the bus entrance. Have a frequent breakfast buyers card which
enables students to enter a prize drawing once they have a certain number of
stamps or they earn a free snack at break. Offer convenient “special delivery” breakfasts
during testing week to encourage students to eat breakfast. Branding, serve breakfast in a way students can
identify with a restaurant or café. Market breakfast specials like a diner.
Get
Students Involved:
Have a student planned breakfast. Correlate menus with school spirit days. Work
with student leadership to advertise these menus as part of spirit day
advertising. Offer samples of a new breakfast item once a
month. Start a breakfast committee whose role is to research
student perceptions of school breakfast and the barriers to eating as well as taste
potential breakfast choices and advertise breakfast. Get the cheerleaders to create a breakfast
cheer or make it a contest for the school. Ask students to create a Breakfast Commercial,
ask a TV or radio station to produce and air the winning entry or announce it
over the loudspeaker.
Offer
Incentives and activities
Invite your local TV station to broadcast from
your school. Bring a local radio station in and have them
broadcast their show during breakfast time.
They bring giveaways and it is a lot of fun. Have the Principal serve breakfast. Have a poster contest for students to
illustrate movies, songs, bands TV shows and use the winning poster as a theme.
Implement “Breakfast with the Principal” for
strait A’s, award winners etc.
Go
High Tech:
Advertise school breakfast (including menus) on
the school website. Advertise school breakfast with posters and
displays around campus.
Change
the Atmosphere:
Provide entertainment during breakfast by
playing music or showing “news-oriented” TV programs or videos. Give the cafeteria a face lift or offer
breakfast in non-traditional places like carts where students hang out.
