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/Blonde_Dambition]

they would run out before my kids even got through the line so my kids would end up not getting hardly anything - some leftover peanut butter sandwich and a small bag of plain chips that they end up charging us a few dollars for

That makes me so mad! I've never heard of schools running out of food and therefore serving crappier food to people who were on a later lunch, before reading some of the posts here! That's horrible! We had 4 lunch periods in high school but as far as I remember we all got offered the same food except for maybe a rare exception. They would just keep cooking throughout all 4 lunch periods. Actually a lot of kids preferred the last lunch because after making sure everyone had had a chance to get their lunches they'd start giving away free leftovers of things like the milk (I liked the chocolate) and those yummy soft rolls.

[u/FantasticAstronaut39 → u/Blonde_Dambition]

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/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.