Excerpts: The need to expand the National School Lunch Program into older urban schools where installation of kitchen facilities is not feasible has been given strong recognition by the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. To this end, a study was initiated concerning means by which foods might be prepared centrally and distributed to such schools. These case studies were prepared as research tools. The information in them may prove helpful to school officials concerned with a decision regarding establishment of a lunch program utilizing a central kitchen approach. These studies constitute a part of a national program of research relating to public food distribution programs being conducted in the U. S. Department of Agriculture.