Council Buys 4m Portions of Frozen Chips
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School Dinners Suck
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- 2004
Council Buys 4m Portions of Frozen Chips
Essex County Council bulk buys chips ahead of predicted price increase.
Bags of frozen chips equivalent to around four million portions have been purchased by Essex County Council to save the ratepayers' money ahead of predicted price rises resulting from a poor potato crop. They have also bought frying oil in readiness with an eye on the European surplus known as the 'olive oil lake'. The 40 container loads of chips will be stored ahead of distribution to the Council's 700 schools and 100 social services and residential homes as a staple part of their meals. In Chelmsford, Essex, county supplies officer Tony Bartholomew explains the £30,000 saving over scenes of dinner ladies and schoolchildren.The reporter was Surrey Beddows for this video made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.
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Butcher Tours Schools in Lincolnshire
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Coca-Cola: Christmas Caravan III
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