Fudge shop owner raises $13k for school lunch debt, starts nonprofit

School may be out for the summer, but a Lexington man is already focused on next year and paying off lunch debt across Fayette County Public Schools.

When LEX 18 first introduced you to Adam Dahl of Dahlhus Fudge in February, he had just decided to “fudge around and find out,” as the sign in his shop says. He was raising money for school lunch debt using proceeds from his TikTok.

One month in, he had raised $1,300. Just two and a half months later, the total was ten times that amount at nearly $13,000. That’s around one third of Fayette County’s outstanding lunch debt LEX 18 reported in February…

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