Our school has a contract with a cola company and the Principal has simply stated to the teachers and the PTO ALL parties are in the lunch room as there is to be no food allowed in the class rooms and ask us to only serve juice to our younger students and if you would like a soda $.75. We have a K-12 school and new building so we'll see how long this will last!
Some students "whine" about only having "grape" when they prefer "cherry" but learn rules are rules.

We have the same circumstances at our school. If donations are asked for from the parents, you can not dictate what brand they buy. If we purchase cola products for a PTA or school event we have been told it must be X-cola products. So far no problems.

I'm betting the contract stipulates that the district will only sell X-cola at sporting events, and only have X-cola machines in teachers lounges and high schools, and so on. So even if all the teachers at a given school were to sign a petition asking for a Y-cola machine, tough luck. However, there is absolutely no way they could keep anybody from bringing in their own can of Y-cola.

By the same token, the PTO may be bound to only selling X-cola at any fund raising events they hold on school property. However, there is absolutely no way they can keep somebody from bringing in Y-cola for a classroom party.

I can understand the principal suggesting that people may want to use X-cola in light of what I assume was a lucrative contract for the district. However, prohibiting competing products is taking the deal way to seriously.

To the best of my knowledge we have not but I do not know how it could be enforced. For classroom parties, parents volunteer to bring in drink and they donate it, the PTO is not involved in what is supplied. For PTO events etc, usually parents ask local stores etc for donations, if we were forced to purchase the items it would cut into our profits of the event, unless the contracted company could match the donated price.

Our school district has signed a contract with a beverage distributor and our PTO has been told by the building principal,that we must purchase and serve only this product when we have activities. I have e-mailed the superintendent on this issue as during the past holiday parties in classrooms, the teacher made it an issue with her students. They wanted to bring what "they" like to drink and she said no. The superintendent was unaware? of this issue and was discussing it with the area principals. I know there are numerous districts across the country that have signed this contract. How is this being handled at your school?