"I think it's very cool," one middle school student said, adding that her lunch time wait sometimes spanned up to 30 minutes. With the old system, students entered a five-digit code into a keypad.

When Donald Fennoy, chief operations officer for Palm Beach County Schools, took a bite of the district’s new barbecue pulled pork sandwich Tuesday, he was pleased. “I’d eat this,” he said.

LOXAHATCHEE, FL- The new items on the Palm Beach County School District’s menu sound a little more like they come from a restaurant, rather than a cafeteria. Among the new offerings, students ...