With over 25 years’ experience, QAST is dedicated to the promotion and support of Queensland tuckshops and communities in their endeavours to offer nutritious, hygienic and economically viable food services.
QAST supports members through Menu Health Checks, training and support, financial advice and so much more.
When we work with a tuckshop, we often see the tuckshop go on to experience greater success.
Here are some of their success stories.
Sherwood State School
Sherwood State School tuckshop is working with their OSHC to share resources for each business to run more efficiently. Learn about their success.
Longreach School of Distance Education
Whilst the majority of learning at Longreach School of Distance Education is done online and from home, once per term students travel to Longreach to attend ‘cluster week’, an opportunity to network, socialise and learn in a physical classroom.
Normanton State School
Normanton State School's Free Feed Fridays are ensuring positive health outcomes for their students and their community.
Highfields State Secondary College
After a recent Tuckshop Tuneup, Highfields State Secondary College set out to improve their canteen menu, while looking at ways to increase income and generate profit.
Tannum Sands State School
At Tannum Sands State School just south of Gladstone , Nicola immediately recognised and seized the opportunity to increase the tuckshop’s profitability, by providing food to school staff.
Kenmore South State School
At Kenmore South State School in Brisbane, co-convenors Sarah Potts and Sachiko Polak have successfully implemented a Sustainability Program, transforming their tuckshop into the nucleus of their eco-friendly school community.
Beerwah State School
Beerwah State School recently hosted two Nutrition and Dietetics students from the University of the Sunshine Coast to undertake a project to communicate the Smart Choices Guidelines to parents and students, and explain why the school is updating the tuckshop menu to support students to make healthy choices. Here's what they did.
Cannonvale State School
At Cannonvale State School, in the Whitsunday region of North Queensland, big changes have been happening in the health and wellbeing of the whole school community.
Yugumbir State School
Yugumbir State School convenor, Kim, brought with her a new energy and zest for making the tuckshop better. She made many changes and she made them fast, including getting the menu up to a 5-apple rating.
Loganholme State School
Thriving veggie gardens and a tuckshop menu that is delicious … and healthy, are just two of the exciting milestones achieved at Loganholme State School, one year after they adopted Life Ed Queensland’s Healthy Eats program.
Freshwater State School
In 2022 we touched base with one of the Tuckshop Turnaround project’s success stories, Freshwater State School, to see how they were performing two years later.
Oakleigh State School
QAST worked with Oakleigh State school to undergo a mini marketing makeover in their tuckshop to promote the sale of GREEN menu items. Here's how things improved afterwards.
Craigslea State High School
In 2022 we touched base with one of the Tuckshop Turnaround project’s success stories, Craigslea State High School, to see how they were performing two years later.