• Feel confident purchasing Tyson® Kid Tested, Kid Approved™ products. We taste test new products with students to get their feedback.
• This proven process allows us to offer you kid-endorsed foods to help increase your ADP.
• Tested with a geographically diverse sample.
• No less than 500 students tested across the U.S.
• 80% or above approval rating before Tyson endorses the Kid Tested, Kid Approved™ product and places a seal on each product tested.

• Tyson offers commodity storage and handling services that reduce related costs.
  • More efficient and economical – could save up to $10 per case
  • Decrease storage costs
• Tyson’s commodity program allows schools to manage deliveries, which saves money on handling and improves delivery time.
  • Increase food safety
  • Manage timely deliveries
  • Reduce handling
• Proprietary internet-based ordering and reporting system reduces cost of processing commodity allocation
  • Operational ease
• Click here to link to K12foodservice.com for help managing your commodity program.
• Click here for more information on how to divert your commodities into student favorites.

Introducing…ACES!

The Tyson K-12 marketing team is proud to announce the new Advisory Council of Experts for Schools (ACES). ACES consists of six school brokers from key states who were chosen to participate based on their expertise of the K-12 market.

ACES gathers several times a year to discuss the impact of major trends on school foodservice. They provide Tyson’s K-12 sales and marketing teams with valuable feedback on current and proposed programs as well as key insights of the K-12 market.

The ACES are:

• Travis Bills, CDC Food Brokers, Willow Grove, PA
• Dan Hartle, Food Sales East, Nashville, TN
• Steve Hume, The Lemmons Company, Addison, TX
• Diana McCarthy, Venture Sales Group, Buffalo, NY
• Nicole Nicoloff, Mascari Sales & Marketing, Farmington Hills, MI
• Maribeth Wasmund, Food Sales West, Livermore, CA

Tyson breakfast out in the field

Tyson implemented a 2 week field test of the new Tyson Power Upz™ Individually Wrapped Chicken Sausage Biscuit at selected grammar, middle and high schools. Foodservice directors were allowed to prepare and serve the chicken biscuit to students to determine the potential acceptance of the new product.

Overall results were very positive. The individually wrapped packaging was popular with students, and FSDs felt it would help with speed, convenience, and food safety. Students at every grade level perceived the product to be a good, hot, protein-based breakfast option.

“The prep time fits our tight mornings schedule and the case packing is really convenient too,” said one FSD. “It’s easy to count out the numbers we need because of how the case is laid out, knowing that each case is exactly 100 sandwiches.”