FARGO, N.D. – A student-run restaurant that launched a week ago at Davies High School may soon be out of business because of federal lunch restrictions championed by first lady Michelle Obama.

Students running the Nest Café got their first lesson in government regulations this week after they published their menu and someone pointed out that it doesn’t comply with the Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act, legislation promoted by Michelle Obama to fight childhood obesity through bureaucracy.

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The federal regulations are imposed on all schools participating in the National School Lunch Program, and include strict limits on calories, fat, sugar, sodium and other nutritional elements of school food.

“Our menu this week has Philly cheese steak on it,” student organizer Baylee Cushman told Inforum.com. “That would never get by.”

“It’s a lot to take in,” Cushman said. “I wanted to start crying, so it was kind of, you had to keep it all in.”

Student Cassidy Cotney called KVLY’s “Whistleblower Hotline” to complain about students’ predicament.

“We didn’t know if we would be able to open, or if we would be able to serve anybody,” Cotney said.

As students prepared to serve lunch to students at the café Wednesday, they received an email from their teacher, Cotney said.

“They are not letting us sell to students this week, we need to make a statement, if you have friends that want to eat at the nest they will need an adult to come and purchase their meal for them,” the email read, according to the news site.

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The intent of the student-run restaurant is to give students real-life experience in preparing food and running a business. But the federal restrictions mean they’ll have to rework their menu by limiting meals to 600 calories, cutting out dessert, and making other changes that will undoubtedly hamper sales.

“We wouldn’t be able to have desserts anymore because it doesn’t follow the guidelines to a specific extent. And if we are, they’re not going to be that great,” Cushman told Inforum. “So, if we end up losing all of this, we put in all the work for it too.”

Fargo Public Schools Superintendent Jeff Schatz told KVLY there are no plans to shut down the café, but students will have to change their menu considerably.

“When our director told the principals and teachers that they need to be following that, there was some miscommunication there that they couldn’t do,” he said. “And, there were people thinking we are going to be shutting the program down. No we are not.”

School officials “knew about the regulations, it’s just a matter of did the people working with the programs do a good job in making that transition and so that’s what they are looking at now,” he said.

Schatz also said he thinks the federal government may have gotten a little carried away with the nutrition restrictions, which were first imposed on schools in 2012.

“Maybe the regulations have gone too far, and that somehow somewhere the people making the decisions need to reconsider and back up a little,” he said.

Students certainly agree.

The regulations not only make it difficult for students to learn what it’s like to run a real restaurant, they’re hurting students who depend on school food, Cotney said.

“We want to get a feel of what it’s like in an actual restaurant and not every restaurant goes by nutrition guidelines,” she told KVLY.

“A lot of people depend on school food to be their actual meal, cause they don’t get fed at home,” Cotney added. “And so seeing the portion sizes of school food go down, it affects a lot of students who rely on school food cause they are not eating enough to keep them good for the rest of the day.”

Inforum reports that another high school in Fargo, Fargo South High School, is running into the same complications with its student-run café called the Lunchbox.