Normally, a school bus is meant to take students to and from the classroom, but at Cherry Creek Innovation Campus, a Colorado school bus has been transformed into a classroom.
The bus was donated, and the Tuchman Family Foundation donated $110,000 to take out the seats and replace them with all the food truck essentials. It’s a kitchen on four wheels in the Cherry Creek School District.
The Campus Creations Food Bus is an extension of CCIC’s Culinary Management program. Students cook up and serve breakfast and lunch to their classmates, to teachers and to others every day. On the day a CBS Colorado crew visited the bus, a team of construction workers were putting in orders.
Breakfast tacos are one of the students’ specialties.
“I get the tortilla, I get the egg. We have fried plantains, bacon or chorizo, and then a little bit of cheese if you want,” said senior Sophie Rubio, who is a food bus student…