No more Pepsi or chocolate, decision will cost thousands
Caleb Soptelean
The decision to replace all carbonated sugar drinks in Mustang schools is estimated to cost the district $18,000 this year.
A Pepsi spokesman made the announcement to the school board Monday.
The board approved a proposal from Pepsi that will give the district a percentage of all beverage sales. Currently the district receives a flat $76,000 stipend, but is estimated to receive only $58,000 this year.
District schools will still have diet carbonated drinks available along with Gatorade, water and fruit drinks.
Also of note, the district will no longer have chocolate in its vending machines.
Superintendent Karl Springer said students will still be able to buy “lots of healthy kinds of snacks. We’ve pretty much knocked the candy out of the vending machines,” he said. Even vending machines in faculty lounges will not offer chocolate.
No estimate was given on the financial effect of pulling chocolate from the machines. Regular chips, Cheetos, Doritos and Lays will be removed, along with cookies and salty snacks.
The following drinks and beverages will be sold: water, flavored water, sugar-free lemonade, diet green tea, Diet Pepsi, Diet Mountain Dew, Diet Mountain Dew Code Red, Diet Cherry Pepsi, Diet Sierra Mist, Baked Lays, Baked Cheetos, Baked Doritos, pretzels, Sun chips, Wheatables, Ritz Bits crackers, Elfin Low Fat cookies, low fat animal crackers, trail mix, Nabisco 100-calorie cookies, fruit snacks, fig newtons, Nature Valley Granola, meat sticks, sugar-free wafers, salted peanuts, Snack Wells, Special K bars, Small Trail Mix and beef jerky.
Caleb Soptelean
The decision to replace all carbonated sugar drinks in Mustang schools is estimated to cost the district $18,000 this year.
A Pepsi spokesman made the announcement to the school board Monday.
The board approved a proposal from Pepsi that will give the district a percentage of all beverage sales. Currently the district receives a flat $76,000 stipend, but is estimated to receive only $58,000 this year.
District schools will still have diet carbonated drinks available along with Gatorade, water and fruit drinks.
Also of note, the district will no longer have chocolate in its vending machines.
Superintendent Karl Springer said students will still be able to buy “lots of healthy kinds of snacks. We’ve pretty much knocked the candy out of the vending machines,” he said. Even vending machines in faculty lounges will not offer chocolate.
No estimate was given on the financial effect of pulling chocolate from the machines. Regular chips, Cheetos, Doritos and Lays will be removed, along with cookies and salty snacks.
The following drinks and beverages will be sold: water, flavored water, sugar-free lemonade, diet green tea, Diet Pepsi, Diet Mountain Dew, Diet Mountain Dew Code Red, Diet Cherry Pepsi, Diet Sierra Mist, Baked Lays, Baked Cheetos, Baked Doritos, pretzels, Sun chips, Wheatables, Ritz Bits crackers, Elfin Low Fat cookies, low fat animal crackers, trail mix, Nabisco 100-calorie cookies, fruit snacks, fig newtons, Nature Valley Granola, meat sticks, sugar-free wafers, salted peanuts, Snack Wells, Special K bars, Small Trail Mix and beef jerky.
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