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Article: LUNCH PRICES STAY THE SAME

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August 11, 1998
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CHEYENNE -- School lunch prices at Cheyenne's public schools will remain the same as last year.

Linda Willman, Laramie County School District 1 nutrition services supervisor, recommended to the LCSD1 board of trustees Monday night not to increase school lunch prices this year.

Last year's 12 percent price increase might have created more revenue for the district, but fewer lunches were sold, she said.

Lunch sales decreased by 3.4 percent. The district sold 1,172,262 lunches during the 1996-97 school year. Only 1,132,721 lunches were sold last year.

Although some of that is due to declining enrollments, Willman also said the price increase had something to do with losing 39,541 lunch sales.

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