Horicon completes food service transition

HORICON - The 2009-2010 school year marked a new beginning for the food service program in the Horicon School District and Monday the district took another step forward. Taher Professional Food Service Management, based out of Minnetonka, Minn., took over the district’s program at the start of the current school year and on Feb. 8 switched to PIN code debit accounts for students. “We put our food service program out for bid when our food service director retired a year ago,” said Gary Berger, superintendent of the Horicon School District. “Taher got that bid and we’ve been working with them now for this school year.” A number of factors contributed to the district hiring a corporate management program including staff changes and declining enrollment. “We were losing money in our food service program, in fact we were losing close to $50,000 a year,” Berger said. “The revenue did not keep up with the expenses.” Last year, Horicon sent out bids to five different food service companies of which Taher took the $284,000 budgeted contract. It is a $2,000 budget... >>>