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03-01-2012, 12:12 PM
Beach schools spend almost 1 million per year on pizza deliveries
WTKR-TV Channel 3
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There's little doubt, pizza is popular. To students at Green Run High School, the big deal is it's real deal, pizza from Pizza Hut, and not from their cafeteria. But students have no idea how much government paperwork it takes to make that happen.
To score a contract with the school, Pizza Hut had to navigate 31 pages of bid documents. The city's bid document for algebra tutors is only 13 pages.
The document details exactly when the pizza should arrive and what it should look like, right down to the number of pepperoni slices; forty-four per pie, all placed on top of the cheese, two ounces cheese per slice. It must come in a box that doesn't stick to the cheese. And if requested, there must be free pizzas for taste tests. Plus, Pizza Hut must provide pizza cutters, pizza cutting guides, posters for the school and designate a pizza coordinator to keep the deliveries on track.
A school spokeswoman said this makes sure the pizza meets nutritional standards. But NewsChannel 3 found other school systems did the same thing with just a slice of the paperwork.
That's because the Beach uses pretty much the same process for bidding pizza as it does for buses and buildings. So that also means the bid documents are loaded with legalese ridiculous for pizza orders like forgiving Pizza Hut if an Act of God gets in the way or if delivery drivers are sidetracked by epidemics or public enemies.
Not only is Virginia Beach alone in the extra helping of paperwork, it's alone in the region for the amount of delivery pizza it orders. Most local school systems rely on cafeteria pizza, but every Beach school gets roughly 75 Pizza Hut pies once a week—that's 145,000 a year.
Beach schools pay almost a million dollars a year for the pizza deliveries, but through the students' lunch money payments, a spokeswoman says it all breaks even.
Pizza Hut wasn't the lowest bid for the 31-page job. It was the only bid. No other company decided it was worth it.
WTKR-TV Channel 3
http://i.imgur.com/JdcM3.png
There's little doubt, pizza is popular. To students at Green Run High School, the big deal is it's real deal, pizza from Pizza Hut, and not from their cafeteria. But students have no idea how much government paperwork it takes to make that happen.
To score a contract with the school, Pizza Hut had to navigate 31 pages of bid documents. The city's bid document for algebra tutors is only 13 pages.
The document details exactly when the pizza should arrive and what it should look like, right down to the number of pepperoni slices; forty-four per pie, all placed on top of the cheese, two ounces cheese per slice. It must come in a box that doesn't stick to the cheese. And if requested, there must be free pizzas for taste tests. Plus, Pizza Hut must provide pizza cutters, pizza cutting guides, posters for the school and designate a pizza coordinator to keep the deliveries on track.
A school spokeswoman said this makes sure the pizza meets nutritional standards. But NewsChannel 3 found other school systems did the same thing with just a slice of the paperwork.
That's because the Beach uses pretty much the same process for bidding pizza as it does for buses and buildings. So that also means the bid documents are loaded with legalese ridiculous for pizza orders like forgiving Pizza Hut if an Act of God gets in the way or if delivery drivers are sidetracked by epidemics or public enemies.
Not only is Virginia Beach alone in the extra helping of paperwork, it's alone in the region for the amount of delivery pizza it orders. Most local school systems rely on cafeteria pizza, but every Beach school gets roughly 75 Pizza Hut pies once a week—that's 145,000 a year.
Beach schools pay almost a million dollars a year for the pizza deliveries, but through the students' lunch money payments, a spokeswoman says it all breaks even.
Pizza Hut wasn't the lowest bid for the 31-page job. It was the only bid. No other company decided it was worth it.