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With the 2025–26 school year well underway, school foodservice professionals face a landscape marked by rising costs, staffing shortages, and growing uncertainty around meal funding. With over 92% of nutrition program directors expressing serious concern about th e financial sustainability of their programs1, the pressure to do more with less has never been greater. The Funding Squeeze Federal reimbursement rates for school meals continue to fall short. According to the Schoo