The McAllen Independent School District in McAllen, Texas serves more than 22,000 students in their elementary, middle, and high schools. The kids eat more than 38,000 meals each day. That's a lot of food!
How do these lunch-time warriors manage it all? The Metro C5 cabinet line.
The Ideal Holding Cabinet for Schools
The staff gives Metro C5 cabinets credit for making everyone's job easier.
Staff at the McAllen School cook and prepare meals in one central location before trucking the hot food to schools throughout the district, so they needed a transport cabinet to keep up with their demand. That's where the Metro C5 cabinet line comes in: C5 holding food holding and transport cabinets can maintain their temperature for over an hour without being plugged in, making them the perfect transport cabinet for the McAllen School District.
The kitchen staff generally gets to work at 3 a.m. and spends the next few hours hard at work making meals for students throughout the district. After hours of hard work, meals are placed on trays, loaded into the Metro C5 cabinets, and wheeled to the distribution center, where all the trucks then deliver the meals to all the kids at the schools. Since the food is in transport for 25 minutes at most, school staff can plug in the cabinets once they receive them and not have any dips in food temperatures. Using the C5 cabinets to hold and transport food adds an extra layer of food safety, ensuring the students receive lunches that are delicious and at proper temperatures.
Why Metro C5 Cabinets?
This is what the staff had to say:
"These cabinets, and the reason we've invested in these cabinets, is because of the separate heating mechanism. We want to ensure we're not just coasting at 135 degrees. We want to ensure that we're maintaining 150 to 145 so that by the time kids get food, it's still hot. Just like an adult, kids want to have hot food, hot and cold food, and that's what these cabinets provide us."
Create Your Own Success Story with Metro
The addition of Metro's C5 cabinets has significantly improved the processes and efficiency of the McAllen school's cafeteria program--making the staff's lives easier. With their Metro C5 cabinets, they can rest assured knowing that the food they prepare will maintain proper temperature and taste by the time it reaches their students.
If you're looking to improve the workflow or quality of products in a school cafeteria or commercial kitchen, Metro can help. Contact us today to learn how our foodservice solutions can take your operations to the next level.