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# School food the best around
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/school-food-the-best-around/
- Published: 2001-12-27T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-22T22:34:34.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Malibu, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

The school district has the best cafeteria food in the country. The district has announced that the restaurant hospitality’s 2002 Best Kids Menu In America Competition has been won by the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s Food and Nutrition Services Department.

The organization stated that out of hundreds of menus received, Santa Monica- Malibu Unified School District’s menu stood above the rest. The award will be presented at the Restaurant Hospitality Kids Marketing Conference on Feb. 21-22 in San Diego. Tracie Thomas, food and nutrition services supervisor will be present to accept the award on behalf of the entire district’s farmer’s market salad bar program staff. In addition to receiving the award, the winning menu also will be featured in restaurant hospitality’s April 2002 issue.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 27, 2001.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/122701.pdf?ref=smdp.com)