Friday, September 15, 2017

Back-to-School Lean: Lunchbox Kanban

by Deborah McGee,  September 7, 2017



For those have adjusting their routines to another school year, Deborah is encouraged to share a success story of lean implementation. A few years back, Deborah started a new job (here at LEI), and had to leave the house earlier each day. With new morning time constraints to consider, after about six months of making it work, the time was right to transfer lunch-making responsibility directly to the front line.

This was not a shared vision! But with an unpredictable commute ahead, as anyone working within time constraints knows, using those precious minutes differently became a critical success factor for the day. The kids needed to take ownership without the nutritional standards dropping. This is important work! In addition to time constraints, other factors for systematizing this work included the weekly grocery bill, the amount of food waste, and morale – and by “morale”, it means the weekly refrain about not (ever, apparently) getting the “right stuff” from the grocery store.



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