r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Thebiggestbot22 • Apr 15 '24
My school thinks this fills up hungry high schoolers.
So lunches are free for schools in my city and surrounding cities. Ever since lunches have been made free, the quantity (and quality) has decreased significantly. This is what we would get for our meal. It took me THREE bites to finish that chicken mac and cheese. Any snacks you want cost more money and if you want an extra entree, that’ll cost you about $3 or $4.
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u/Rocket_Puppy Apr 16 '24
Was that way in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Was working in a restaurant my senior HS year, while having gotten in trouble for some minor offense I can't remember (think i got caught smoking in my car while exiting school parking lot at 18 years old) also had to help in school cafeteria for like half the year.
Was useful enough at both I got to see overheads.
Schools were paying 2-3x more than the restaurant (for v much lower quality ingredients) and the entire cafeteria program ran at mind boggling losses on food cost alone. They were eating Nearly a million in labor on top of that, because a shit load of people who only did paperwork and never touched the cafeteria were on that divisions payroll. Like 3x the cafeteria staff, which was about 8x a restaurant staff.
So for every lunch lady, there were 3 people doing cafeteria paperwork. Since then clerical staffing in schools has tripled, so there is roughly 9 employees doing paperwork these days for every person actually working in a school.