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Media Advisory: Students Taste Testing Innovative Concepts for 2023-2024 School Year Menu

February 14, 2023

The Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Division of Food and Nutrition Services is hosting its second annual The Taste of MCPS - Menu Concept Taste Test for Students. Over 100 students in grades 6-11 will evaluate innovative concepts and sample new flavors. Feedback from the students will be incorporated into the menu development process for the 2023-2024 school year. 

Twenty concepts from national manufacturers from all across the country will be sampled, including: 

  • Korean BBQ Chicken
  • Baja Fish Tacos
  • Thai Style Chicken and Rice Bowl 
  • Mandarin Chicken Bahn Mi
  • Plant Based “Chicken” Primavera

WHAT: Students taste testing innovative menu concepts to be incorporated into 2023-2024 school menu development

WHEN: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 

WHERE: 8401 Turkey Thicket Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20879

WHO: 100 students from Parkland, Thomas W. Pyle and Rosa Parks Middle Schools, as well as Bethesda Chevy-Chase, Gaithersburg, Walter Johnson, Richard Montgomery and Seneca Valley High Schools. 

Members of the media may attend and are asked to contact Jessica_M_Baxter@mcpsmd.org to RSVP.

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