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Food Fight: Local Delis, Students Upset Over New Bergen Schools Rules On Food Deliveries

Officials: We Don’t Want Outsiders In Our Buildings; Bring Lunch Or Buy Here
March 24, 2014 6:34 PM

RIDGEWOOD, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — It’s a trend that is being stopped in its tracks.

Administrators in one New Jersey school district have put a stop to food deliveries during school hours. It had become a popular alternative to the school cafeteria.

For 5,900 students in Bergen County it’s a simple directive: either carry in your lunch or buy it at the cafeteria. No more delivery.

A local deli owner told CBS 2’s Lou Young the new rule is killing him.

“I used to do 150 lunches on a slow day, up to 250 a day. I was in eight schools, and now that’s down to zero,” said Roger Schmorrbusch, owner of the Park Wood Deli.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/24/local-delis-students-upset-over-new-bergen-schools-rules-on-food-deliveries/

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.

– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/247718361_Lunch_vendors_file_claim_agains_Ridgewood_school_board_schools.html#sthash.zESG2cHE.dpuf