Tops Markets donates salad bars to schools

Tops Friendly Markets, a grocery retailer in New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont, in partnership with the United Fresh Start Foundation, unveiled its first of four salad bar donations to select Buffalo Public Schools.

A ribbon cutting event for the salad bar’s presentation was held at Buffalo Public School #81. The salad bars were introduced to four Buffalo schools’ cafeterias as an effort to provide local students with access to a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables.

The salad bars were arranged through a partnership with the United Fresh Start Foundation, a founding partner of the national Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools initiative, which aims to increase children’s produce consumption by donating salad bars to schools throughout the United States.

The schools receiving salad bars include:

• Dr. Antonia Pantoja School of Academic Excellence
  750 West Ave., Buffalo, NY 14213
• Bilingual Center
  157 Elk St., Buffalo, NY 14210
• #81 School
  140 Tacoma Ave., Buffalo, NY 14216
• West Hertel Academy
  489 Hertel Ave., NY 14707

The Buffalo Public Schools has a leading school foodservice program, including more than forty schools with the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable “School Snack” Program and Farm to School activities that promote fresh fruits and vegetables in school meals every day.