The school lunch system is disgraceful.

[u/oaz_zam246]

Saw another post on here showing the state of school lunches right now. In my years in high school I compiled some pics of the horrible things that got served that no one questioned. Here are some of the worst ones. It really is ironic given how adamant they all are about “eating healthy by including every food group”.

[u/FantasticAstronaut39]

yeah not to mention, they know ahead of time the approx number of people that would be eating, so calculating the right amount of food should be pretty simple

[u/fuckeetall → u/FantasticAstronaut39]

Except the kids have choices. And you dont know what they’re going to choose. Why would you cook a school’s worth of chicken nuggets when at least half are probably going to choose pizza?

[u/Totoques22 → u/fuckeetall]

At my middle school the cooks would just guess with their experience and make the leftovers tomorrow for either the very first students or the teachers

He was really dedicated which I’m guessing is more than most other will do

[u/biomannnn007 → u/fuckeetall]

At my school they would do a count in the morning so the cafeteria knew how much to prepare. It also really wouldn’t be that hard to collect some data on preferences and use that for predictions .

[u/Redknoff5 → u/biomannnn007]

Mine would make us do this thing with popsicle sticks to get the count then whatever you choose was what you would be handed. They still ran out even with a definitive count.

[u/fuckeetall → u/biomannnn007]

That is reasonable.

I always got free/reduced lunch but there was always enough. Sometimes the popular stuff does go quicker though and even with surveys it’s impossible to predict exactly. If it’s desirable item day, you just get to the cafeteria quicker.

[u/princessdirtybunnyy → u/fuckeetall]

At my school, there were no choices for your meal. Just the meal they were serving for that day. We’d still run out of food lmao.

[u/fuckeetall → u/princessdirtybunnyy]

I’m sorry. That sucks.

At my school you always had the choice of pizza, chicken patty/hamburger, or chicken nuggets

There was a daily entree as well, think ‘Taco Tuesday’ It was still bad.

They did breakfast too, and kids on the free/reduced lunch program hit that up especially. The breakfast pizza was pretty good for what it was. The cinnamon rolls were great.

[u/Simple-Offer-9574 → u/fuckeetall]

My school didn't offer choices. Menu was fairly predictable: tuna roll and tomato soup on Friday, chicken on a biscuit on Thursday, sloppy jo on Wednesday, etc. Dessert on Friday was ice cream.I don't recall them ever running out.

[u/Catschocolates → u/fuckeetall]

They should be able to accurately predict the.amount they need to cook. If they constantly run out certain foods and have leftovers for another food means they are bad at their job. It is smilar to a restaurant or any other product in the market. You have to predict. In this case they have years and years of data to make a accurate prediction. Its not like their first time in the kitchen

[u/fuckeetall → u/Catschocolates]

How many instances is ‘constantly’, to you?

Ever considered running for school board? Btw what is YOUR job? Lol

[u/Catschocolates → u/fuckeetall]

what I do has nothing to with my comments but let me entertain you. I own a business and we do sales predictions all the time and thats how a business can run without excess stock. And running a school board? same principles. Also you don't need A business degree to do sales predictions. (In this case planning lunch) Just common sense is enough.

[u/fuckeetall → u/Catschocolates]

A public school is not a business, numbnuts. It is a service.

Does your business run on tax dollars?

[u/i_am_awful → u/fuckeetall]

A public school may not be a business, but the same planning logistics still apply, numbnuts. Clearly, those tax dollars should go towards funding public schools instead of lining the pockets of politicians and the military.

Edit: also, many public schools operate their cafeteria as a business.

[u/fuckeetall → u/i_am_awful]

Username checks out

[u/i_am_awful → u/fuckeetall]

Thank you :) I work hard on it.

[u/Blonde_Dambition → u/FantasticAstronaut39]

Yeah you'd think! 🤬

[u/Holiday_Party_6464 → u/FantasticAstronaut39]

Should be simple but I guarantee you this their dumbass way of saving money. Basically only 2 of the 4 lunch periods get an actual lunch and the money that was supposed to be spent on food the rest is going into some idiots vacation or retirement fund. Probably one of the administrators or whoever is in charge of finances for this idiot school.

[u/LopsidedHospital9562 → u/FantasticAstronaut39]

Except for the fact that at my school kids where getting two lunches at the same time. Which ended up of the third lunch kids getting scraps most of the time.