Pasta King has been producing hot meals for children and young adults for over 25 years and this announcement underpins their commitment to ensure children enjoy a hot meal for lunch.
Mark Stone, chief executive of Pasta King, said: “We have seen huge changes in the last year in school meal provision with schools closing, packed lunches being brought in and even meal boxes for use at home, however research shows that the most effective way of feeding children in the middle of the day, to help improve academic performance, is by having a hot meal.
“We want to ensure that hot meals are quite literally back on the table for children returning to school and so we are offering tens of thousands of free meals to schools.
“They can use these meals to help with their free school meal provision or for school clubs that are still able to meet or for some other purpose within their local communities. We shall leave those decisions up to the schools.”
The 60,000 free meals will be flavoured with Pasta King’s two most popular varieties pomodoro & basilico and will be provided to schools together with their usual orders for Pasta King sauces, rice and pasta. The scheme is available to schools across England, Scotland and Wales from 8 March until 2 April 2021.
Schools interested in availing of the offer should contact orders@pastaking.co.uk for more details.