The facilities and operations of the school lunch program in the public schools of Hawaii are reviewed. Several types of school lunch programs are described including--(1) traditional school lunch programs, (2) kitchen and classroom dining, (3) central and decentralized dining, (4) home school-feeder school system, (5) central kitchen, and (6) the Waiakea plan. Consideration is then given to the problem of food poisoning, the portable electric food cart, and trends in school lunch programs. A list of recommendations is presented along with a suggested modernization program for six Kaliki schools. (FS)