Exclusive | NYC middle school spent $20K in a week at one restaurant with $600 in eggs, $200 worth of coffee and tea: docs

Call it pork barrel binging.A Big Apple middle school shoveled nearly $20,000 in a single week to a Caribbean restaurant in Brooklyn for orders of mountains of pork, chicken, oxtail and other soul-food staples — all on the taxpayers’ dime, invoices obtained by The Post show.Brownsville Collaborative Middle School doled out $600 for trays of bacon and sausage, another $600 for scrambled eggs and a cool $480 for oxtail from Fusion East for dozens of people — part of a massive $745,000 tab racked up at the eatery by the Department of Education.Coffee and tea for a large group cost $200 each while the orange juice cost $300, according to the paperwork.The middle school made 13 catering orders to Fusion East on school days between Aug.28 and Sept.

6 of 2024 — most of which exceeded city spending limits, officials said.The Caribbean eatery, which offers a  customer-pleasing $5 special, provided seven lunches and six breakfasts during that span that contributed to the overall payment of $745,000 the Department of Education funneled to Fusion East in the past fiscal year that raised red flags with the city comptroller’s office.The middle school, led by principal Gregory Jackson — who was arrested on drinking and driving charges in May — spent $2,930 on breakfast orders for about 100 people on two separate occasions, according to the invoices.The orders included bacon and sausage, scrambled eggs, waffles and home fries, the invoices show.

The coffee and tea boxes cost $200 while the orange juice was a $300 expense.About 100 people also feasted on lunches with two separate orders running up a bill of $2,410.Those orders consisted of chicken and whiting that each cost $640, as well as rice and peas, mac and cheese, and collard greens, the invoices show.Oxtails, jerk chicken and other sides was among a more modest order that only rang up the middle school for $830 for 50 people, according to another purchase order.It’s unclear what events the cat...