Compass calls Pita Pit, pie shop to the rescue

Pies and Pita Pit will be on the menu on Friday after multiple failures from the company leading a cut-price school lunch programme. (Image: NZME)

Cécile Meier

Thu, 13 Feb 2025

The Compass Group has called Pita Pit, a pie shop and a supplier of special dietary meals, to the rescue after multiple failures in the first couple of weeks of its cut-price school lunch programme. It has also quietly released the nutritional contents of its meals, which a registered nutritionist assessed for BusinessDesk as providing about half of the energy children above the age of nine should get in a nutritious lunch. Compass is leading the School Lunch Collective, a consortium contracted to deliver about 127,000 meals daily to...

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