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Speaker 1: Slightly reluctant to give the sea time. As I mentioned

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Speaker 1: before the news but pida at schools today, as the

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Speaker 1: government's lunch program hits seemingly a snag with the first

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Speaker 1: three week delivery block complete, providers are using today to

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Speaker 1: get on top of food production. Apparently, despite the reported

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Speaker 1: teething issues, one million meals have already been delivered. So

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Speaker 1: that's the good sign. That's more thane hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: seven thousand students each and every day. A lead on

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Speaker 1: the school lunch Collective is Paul Harvey, who is well,

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Speaker 1: there's Paul, very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good and Mike, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Is this a cock up or not?

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Speaker 2: Mike gets you know, we acknowledge that today in particular,

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Speaker 2: you know, wasn't part of the plan. But as you

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Speaker 2: said right up front, one hundred and twenty seven thousand

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Speaker 2: meals every day, a million meals. We're taking the opportunity

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Speaker 2: of ensure that our manufacturing and our supply chain gets

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Speaker 2: ready to ensure that this program is successful going forward.

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Speaker 1: Are you in breach of contract?

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Speaker 2: We're in constant conversation with the ministry around contractual obligations,

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Speaker 2: so you know we're very very close to them on

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Speaker 2: this meeting daily and having very productive and constructive conversations

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Speaker 1: Are you in breach of contract?

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Speaker 2: We know what a contractual obligations are, might.

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Speaker 1: And are you in breach of them?

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Speaker 2: Well, in terms of our performance expectations, we know what

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Speaker 2: they are. There are one hundred percent schools on time.

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Speaker 2: We have business continuity plans in place as well, and

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Speaker 2: the program as we're going forward, you know we'll be

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Speaker 2: striving to achieve that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you are in breach of contract because you're

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Speaker 1: not meeting your obligations, are you?

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Speaker 2: Right now, we are focusing on the meals to the

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Speaker 2: kids every day and that's essentially the focus for today,

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Speaker 2: the focus for next week. And you know we're working

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Speaker 2: closely with the ministry on any sort of contractual challenges

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Speaker 2: around that.

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Speaker 1: Has the media run a witch hunt on.

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Speaker 2: You, You know, we're aware of the media conversation. But

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Speaker 2: Candidy Mike, I'm just focusing on what we need to

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Speaker 2: do right. Where as a collective, you know, we are

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Speaker 2: signed up to this responsibility. It's a privilege, candidate about

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Speaker 2: serving kids every day and we've got to get it right.

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Speaker 2: And there's some things that we have not done well,

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Speaker 2: and we're getting those things right. We are now moving

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Speaker 2: into some better on time deliveries to school this week.

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Speaker 2: We're in the mid nineties, close to the high nineties.

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Speaker 2: It's not one hundred percent, and that's why we're continuously

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Speaker 2: improving our systems and our processes and we've got to

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Speaker 2: get it right. So I'm aware of the noise, but

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Speaker 2: I know what we need to do to execute what

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Speaker 2: we need to do.

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Speaker 1: Anything I criticize you on as delivery, the bitching that's

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Speaker 1: gone on about the distribution and the business of they

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Speaker 1: can't access it because they can't break the cell offhane,

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Speaker 1: all of that stuff. That's just nonsense. Why can't you

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Speaker 1: deliber on time?

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Speaker 2: We're essentially when you're mobilizing one hundred and twenty seven

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Speaker 2: thousand meals every day, you need every part of the

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Speaker 2: system to work. Minutes matter, and we've found along the way,

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Speaker 2: you know, we're losing some time. We're putting in place

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Speaker 2: more labor, putting in place more trucks, changed our dispatch model,

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Speaker 2: and from where we were where we are now at

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Speaker 2: the high nineties. We're still twenty odds schools probably a

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Speaker 2: day out of the four hundred and forty nine that

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Speaker 2: we're not getting to schools on time. We're communicating proactively

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Speaker 2: every day with our team to ensure the schools aren't

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Speaker 2: disrupted because we acknowledged that. But we've got to get

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Speaker 2: to one hundred percent and that's what I look forward

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Speaker 2: to celebrating when we do.

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Speaker 1: Did you, to put it crudely, shoot your load? You

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Speaker 1: saw a contract worth millions and you went down and

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Speaker 1: robbers dog three dollars a meal can't go wrong. It

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Speaker 1: has gone wrong. You got too excited. Basically, No, not

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Speaker 1: at all.

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Speaker 2: The Collective is a collaboration of some amazing supplies manufacturers

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Speaker 2: and partners that care about ensuring that ourtomot again, our

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Speaker 2: kids get meals every day. So this was never around that.

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Speaker 2: This was about us taking what we found was a

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Speaker 2: very important topic food for schools so the kids get

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Speaker 2: the education they deserve. So this collective is an amazing

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Speaker 2: bunch of people that are you know, is going to

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Speaker 2: get it right and forward to.

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Speaker 1: Okay, cool a second three week block. You'll come back

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Speaker 1: on this program and you'll give us the good news

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Speaker 1: that it's all gone well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for it's sharing that my.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic will catch up then Paul Harvey, who is the lead,

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Speaker 1: and the School Lunch Collective this Morning.

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