Word: lunching
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...Boston’s Financial District because owner Steve Welch wanted to broaden his customer base. “While we were there it was usually only a two-hour window of business,” Welch said. “The same people came all at once during lunch, and no one in the morning or night.” Welch said he had to spend more than three months renovating the equipment he had inherited from Campo de Fiori. The restaurant started in the kitchen of a catering business in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood...
...influx of more affluent students continues, the School Committee has made clear that it will have to find a more permanent fix to the controlled-choice program, either through changing the target and changing the band, or using some measure other than free-and-reduced lunch...
Currently, the school system is approximately 55 percent “paid lunch,” while 45 percent of students qualify for the federal free and reduced lunch program—often used as a proxy for low-income students. Under the controlled-choice system, there is a 10 percent “band,” meaning every school must be between 65 percent and 45 percent paid lunch...
...this year, Cambridge saw an influx of more middle class students at the kindergarten level—approximately two thirds of the first group to sign up for kindergarten were “paid lunch.” Some have questioned whether the formulas used by the district should be adjusted in order to allow more flexibility, which would allow more parents to receive one of their top choices...
...School Committee considered two temporary solutions: raise the paid lunch target to 66 percent—which would allow the schools to be between 56 percent and 76 percent paid lunch—or keep the 55 percent target and increase the “band” to 15 percent, which would mean the schools could be up to 70 percent paid lunch...