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FITZGERALD  \nHow will you prevail over expected supply chain challenges and get the products you need for meal service in SY2020-21?  \nI  \nf anyone sees a certified crystal ball up for auction on eBay, it’s well worth mortgaging the house to get ahold of it. Everyone wants to know what’s going to happen in the months to come. Everyone needs to know what’s going to happen in the months to come. And no one has any reliable predictions. This has led school nutrition operators and the vendors that serve the K-12 foodservice market  \nto become enmeshed in a frustrating Catch-22 dilemma.  \n1 | COVID-19 | School Nutrition | Special Supplement | 2020  \nFacing  \n with  \nCourage • Commitment • Compassion  \nWe need to make an ‘easy’ button for our school customers.  \nTHE QUANDARY  \nA phrase coined by author Kurt Vonnegut, a “Catch-22” indicates a frustrating situation of contradictory conditions that impede resolution. Vendors need  \nschool nutrition professionals to forecast and place product orders earlier than ever (we’ll discuss the reasons why later), but school nutrition teams are still awaiting word from their district administrators about what school schedules—and corresponding meal service—will look like, with the clock ticking ever closer to the expected start of the new year.  \nEven with a plan, participation is exceedingly difficult to predict, since this is (as we keep saying) a completely unprecedented situation. Data from previous school years—and even data from curbside emergency feeding efforts last spring—may be poor projections given drastic, new circumstances. How many kids will eat school meals at school? At home? What types of menu items can be served in classrooms? Picked up in the cafeteria and taken elsewhere to eat? Sent home? How will different combinations of variables impact potential participation?  \nMargins for all of the players in the K-12 segment have always been thinner than thin: for districts, distributors, brokers and manufacturers. The pandemic shut-downs wiped out any surplus funds. In the year ahead, noone can afford, literally, to get it wrong  \nby ordering too much or too little.  \nAnd yet, a spirit of cautious optimism prevails. In recent weeks, School Nutrition connected with several district directors and a number of industry representatives, and they all shared a pragmatic positivity. School nutrition will get it done—it won’t necessarily be pretty and it will definitely not be business as usual. But kids will not go hungry. Schools will have menu items fortrays (or containers, bags and boxes) .  \nThere are several core ingredients to making this happen, and both operators and industry will need to meet in the middle when it comes to applying best practices and fresh ingenuity. To help you do your part in meeting this challenge, School Nutrition shares the reflections, anxieties and advice offered by leaders representing several different links in the school meals supply chain.  \nCRACKS IN A ONCE-FIRM FOUNDATION  \nMost of us take the supply chain for granted. Oh sure, it can be hard to get certain produce items—and we’ll see prices jack up—following an unusual weather event that wipes out a crop.  \nOr there’s a short-term run on popular items when a blizzard or hurricane threatens. And yes, most school nutrition operations have encountered their fair share of substitutions in a distributor’s delivery from time to time. 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