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Promising to cook “culturally relevant” meals with Black and brown kids in mind, a Black-owned school-food management company based in Harlem will be creating a hub in the Philadelphia region to serve local schools.
Red Rabbit has announced it has found a South Jersey location and will likely set up shop by summer, with the hopes of providing school meals by the fall. Company officials declined to name the spot.
Company CEO and founder Rhys Powell said he expects to employ “a few hundred regional people” at Red Rabbit, given its name by the child of a company employee.
In business for 16 years, Red Rabbit is the largest Black-owned K-12 school-food management company in the country. It has served more than 5.5 million meals per year to urban schools throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region, according to company figures.
.... Dishes include Puerto Rican pollo guisado, West African suya chicken, Nigerian jollof rice, and Indian chana masala.
Black-owned school-meals business expanding here, stressing cultural relevance of food (inquirer.com)
That is awesome!
I've never attended school in Philadelphia so I have no clue what is on any of their menus but I'm skeptical of Euro-centric label. I mean schools have been known to kick out some horrendous food so, potato famine European? Soviet breadline?
Red Rabbit has announced it has found a South Jersey location and will likely set up shop by summer, with the hopes of providing school meals by the fall. Company officials declined to name the spot.
Company CEO and founder Rhys Powell said he expects to employ “a few hundred regional people” at Red Rabbit, given its name by the child of a company employee.
In business for 16 years, Red Rabbit is the largest Black-owned K-12 school-food management company in the country. It has served more than 5.5 million meals per year to urban schools throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region, according to company figures.
.... Dishes include Puerto Rican pollo guisado, West African suya chicken, Nigerian jollof rice, and Indian chana masala.
Black-owned school-meals business expanding here, stressing cultural relevance of food (inquirer.com)
That is awesome!
I've never attended school in Philadelphia so I have no clue what is on any of their menus but I'm skeptical of Euro-centric label. I mean schools have been known to kick out some horrendous food so, potato famine European? Soviet breadline?