Compass calls Pita Pit, pie shop to the rescue

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
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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