CPAC, potato shippers funding salad bars across Colorado

When Potatoes USA launched its Salad Bar Challenge initiative on April 15, 2015, the Colorado Potato Administrative Committee had somewhat of a head start in the nationwide effort with two salad bars in place in metro Denver’s Mapleton School District. CPAC Assistant Director Linda Weyers explained that Potatoes USA had challenged the national potato industry to sponsor 3,000 salad bars over a five-year period, and CPAC was “kind of the guinea pig for the project.” “Right now we have funded 15 with our shippers, and there will be a total of 20 this fiscal year,” Weyers said in late March. “We are still budgeting funding for next year,” she added. More