Two focal points in the school lunch debate are that certain locations are hotly contested among caterers, and that in some cases a single central kitchen serves meals to as many as 5-6000 children. "Unless a business stands to make an annual profit of hundreds of thousands or several million, why would it bother to bid for a government contract?"
例如，有的中央廚房供餐量高達五、六千人份，成為坊間團膳業者的兵家必爭之地，就引發相當關切。「廠商一年若沒有幾十萬到上百萬元的利潤，何必來標案？」