{"id":122053,"date":"2025-11-07T01:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122053\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:14:07","slug":"catering-giant-compass-group-excluded-from-next-round-of-school-lunch-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/122053\/","title":{"rendered":"Catering giant Compass Group excluded from next round of school lunch scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other suppliers<\/a> are Appresso Pro Foods, Montana Group, Ka Pai Kai, KDJ Catering, Star Fresh, University of Canterbury Student Association (UCSA), Knuckles (The Food Company), The Y Gisborne, and Pita Pit and Subway.<\/p>\n

Seymour\u2019s secondary school lunches programme is a slimmed-down version of what was offered under the previous Labour Government. <\/p>\n

The Act leader says the average cost of a lunch <\/a>under his programme is $3.46 compared to up to $8.68 per student under Labour. This is expected to save $145 million in 2026, he says. <\/p>\n

Primary schools will be included in the scheme from Term 1 next year, which would be funded by efficiencies made in the wider programme through more flexible ordering. <\/p>\n

Some suppliers <\/a>in the existing programme would be affected, which Seymour acknowledged \u201cwill be tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, the emphasis of the programme is to ensure students get healthy meals at an affordable cost to the taxpayer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The announcement follows a rocky year for Compass. Earlier BusinessDesk reporting has revealed undisclosed funding top-ups to Compass as well as food-safety failures and misleading statements on recycling and the beef mince being used. <\/p>\n

Julia Gabel is a Wellington-based political reporter. She joined the Herald in 2020 and has most recently focused on data journalism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The other suppliers are Appresso Pro Foods, Montana Group, Ka Pai Kai, KDJ Catering, Star Fresh, University of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[60504,51288,1656,35686,6284,84,49477,71,13313,209,51705,85555,661,6722,111,43,139,1536,69,1118,6177,25261,18833,3170,4062,6649,16797,29747,8238,1533],"class_list":["post-122053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-associate","tag-catering","tag-company","tag-compass","tag-david","tag-education","tag-excluded","tag-from","tag-giant","tag-group","tag-lunch","tag-lunches","tag-major","tag-minister","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-primary","tag-rolled","tag-round","tag-scheme","tag-school","tag-schools","tag-seymour","tag-suppliers","tag-under","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}