Food Fight: Lunch vendors file claim agains Ridgewood school board
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2014
BY LAURA HERZOG
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
A claim has been filed against the Board of Education (BOE) that challenges its recent decision to ban outside vendors from delivering lunch to Ridgewood students at school.
In the claim, attorney Victor Herlinsky, of the law firm Sills Cummis and Gross, notes that “Ridgewood has acted in an arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable manner by relying on an ever-changing set of rationales for the cancellation and continually refusing to engage with plaintiffs to reach a resolution that would reverse the cancellation and benefit all parties.”
Herlinsky believes his clients have a solid case.
“The only problem is this case is going to take months, if not years, to litigate,” he said. “It’s going to take a tremendous amount of school board resources.”
The three outside vendors who have taken issue with the ban are Parkwood Delicatessen & Catering in Midland Park; Westside Bagel & Deli in Ridgewood; and No Fuss Lunch, a school lunch delivery business run by Ridgewood mother Gabriella Wilday. Ridgewood parents Oliver and Alla Train, Maya Scanlon, Leigh Warren and Wilday’s husband James are also plaintiffs.
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“It’s going to take a tremendous amount of school board resources.”
Translation……..write me a big fat check right now.
Here’s an idea……counterclaim Sills Cummis and Gross for malpractice for their previous advice.
Boycott these greedy businesses! They will cost us all money. They have no right to delivery on school property. If they are legally allowed on campus where will it end? Other businesses that serve teens will be able to follow suit.
I was going to use Parkwood to cater graduation party. I used them three years ago for my other daughter’s graduation. I can choose from many caterers in the area – they lost my business.
West Side is just a bagel store. Bagelicious is much better.
This should be deemed frivolous before it get’s legs….but some of the Bergen Cty Superior Court judges are knuckleheads. Jobs for life so they can do whatever the hell they want.
What an embarrassment these cry-baby plaintiffs are to Ridgewood. An absolute disgrace. You can still have your kids lunches made by these vendors, you just cannot use school resources in the delivery phase. Let’s hope this gets dismissed.
Hope they are proud of themselves using a tremendous amount of school funding defending their right to sit on their asses and negate their basic parental responsibility to provide food onto a business. Yeah for them!!!!
And to the businesses . . . you just lost my business and that of most of my neighbors. Good luck to you. This lawsuit has not basis; the BOE was willing to let you deliver but not if it used school resources. They asked you to come up with an acceptable plan. You could not. Cut your losses now.
Give up the lawsuit and pack your lazy kids a brown bag lunch of your choosing and stop being a bunch of cry babies.
This has to be the most ridiculous lawsuit of all time. Fire your PR firm! Who would’ve thunk?
The school board should countersue for legal costs.
There were no school resources used except to let the delivery people in…Fishbein is and always has been a nervous nellie who runs around crying safety every time he doesn’t like something.
Fishbein kept changing his story and the bottom line is that if a parent wants to have his kids lunch delivered, who the hell are you to mandate a wonder bread sandwich in a brown bag.
I am sure they can find a solution, but again there were precious little school resources used and that is a fact.
#8 – There were most certainly school resources used for lunch distribution. I witnessed it firsthand many times. Office areas piled high with delivered lunches, kids showing up to pick up their lunches only to find out they weren’t there or their order was wrong and turning to the office staff t straighten it out for them. Plenty of time and effort given by the office staff to these delivered lunches.
And the vendors were asked to come up with a plan but I guess they were too busy making money with their precious little resources.
Get off your ass, and either make/pack your kids lunch or buy/pack your kids lunch. You see, they can have their Parkwood anytime they want; it’s up to you if they get it or not. Oh, I’m sorry, is that too much responsibility for you to assume?
AND THOSE ARE THE FACTS.
This is an unnecessary distraction for Fishbein, et al. The decision was made, it makes sense. Let these people focus on education our children and making our schools great and safe. Get over it. Any business associated with this is losing my business.
Parents, is it so hard to make your kids lunch? Or if you kid is old enough have him or her understand their responsibilities? I do know that a lot of the kids today are so spoiled that would be below them, but come on parents do your job. I know after a hard day of making a ton of money in NYC, and your housekeeper may be falling behind, on it’s duties lunch can be made. So sad
Dr. Fishbein has been the voice of reason. The Village is lucky to have him working for it. Pick up the sammies on your way to school and bring them with you. There are lots of prepared luncheon items available at many delis, supermarkets or breakfast shops if you don’t want to make your own and don’t want to eat the school’s food. Why should the admin. staff have to be involved? The deliveries are disruptive and the staff has real work to do. Absolutely ridiculous on its own and allowing this could create a breach of security.