The State - News from Nov. 23, 1987

Students at Redwood High School in Larkspur took on Marriott Co. in a showdown over cookie sales--and Marriott, which runs the Marin County school’s lunch program, will remove its cookies from the menu so the students can have their own fund-raising sales. “You can say that the kids will be back with their cookies, and big, bad Marriott has pulled out,” said Harold Schlenker, a Marriott vice president. Student cookie sales raise about $5,000 each year for the school’s International Student Exchange program. Marriott had ordered a halt to the sales, citing a federal law that bans competing food items at the site of a federally subsidized lunch program. Students fought back with a one-day-a-week boycott of Mariott’s lunch program.