Classroom Food Cart
Have you heard of classrooms having food carts or coffee businesses but don't know how to get one started? Here is how we run the food cart at our school. We start off every school year with free samples...this is how we get everyone hooked. We set up a station in the front office and send out an email letting everyone know. We also put out a food donation sign up sheet in case anyone wants to donate store bought or homemade goodies. This is what our food cart looks like today but this is not where we started :). When we first started we had our local grocery store donate coffee, teachers donated snacks and we had a tiny cart. After a few years, grants and donations I can say we have a pretty awesome little business. The purpose of the food cart is for our students to develop and practice skills in the following areas: social norms, communication, money and team building. We take the cart out every Wednesday and Friday. I work in a pretty large school (800 students) so we have 6 sp...