No fridges for fresh food means plenty of munchies for hungry rats at San Francisco public schools, according to reports.
The San Francisco Examiner reports that along with serving thousands of extra meals to students, the city's public schools are doling out food to rats, who are taking advantage of a lack of refrigeration.
There simply aren't enough fridges to hold all the extra fresh food that Revolution Foods are serving on campuses, according to the newspaper.
This is a "common issue" seen at other public schools in the nation, a school district spokeswoman said, ever since food changes went into place.
Fewer meals served at schools in San Francisco are frozen, and more are fresh, the newspaper reported.
There are now 6.2 million meals served a year -- 35,000 a day, which includes supper as well as breakfast and lunch.
But there's simply not enough keeping it all cool: some school circuit breakers have broken down due to the extra food to be kept fresh, the newspaper reported.
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A total of 41 schools have been plagued by rodents since the fresh food program began, the newspaper reported.
Schools are doing what they can to clean up after the rats and make sure they don't come back, but what may be needed is a new "hub" for fresh food in the district -- and that's still a ways off, according to the paper.
