Question about school lunches · 6:47am Oct 18th, 2019
Question: who here had a school where the cafeteria had a menu with multiple options? Like, every day, they had multiple options that they could choose from for the entree?
I ask because I was watching something, and in it, the school cafeteria had multiple options. A variety of choices that the students could choose from. Granted, it was a limited variety, but a variety all the same.
However, when I went to school, that was not an option. The menu was set ahead of time, and there was only one option for the meal, although it changed day to day, except for the one day a week where it was always pizza. Also, for my senior year, we had an open campus for lunch, which meant that we could leave and eat somewhere else, so long as we were back in time for our next class. That is a bit off topic, however.
So, I'm asking others: when you went to school, and had lunch, did the cafeteria give you multiple choices for your hot meal, or did you only have one choice unless you brought your own?
Mine had two choices, square bad pizza or one entree. After a McDonald's moved into my small town, my school became a closed campus.
I had weekly hot lunches where you give school money b4hand and they buy like pizza with it, but you need to fill out a form and it was decided the general options in advance
Every day that wasnt hot lunch we brought our own food but Thursday&Friday all the high school students were allowed to go to the next door farmer's market and buy something there if they wanted
Same as above kinda. We had a choice of 2 options. Half the time they were both bad but some was really good. Pizza and this other thing that was like a small rolled up taco. Seniors always had last lunch so we could get leftovers for free. Extra pizza slic3s or whatnot.
In my freshman year, there were a wide variety of options: The daily hot option, sandwiches, salads, and even nachos. By which I mean tortilla chips of varying freshness and saltedness and blobs of Day-Glo yellow nacho cheese.
Not sure if that kept up after that. In their infinite wisdom, the administration altered how schedules worked and gave everyone the same lunch period. Needless to say, I brought lunch for the next three years.
I had a couple of choices. There were the standard burgers, a couple of hot choices (something like pasta, or maybe shepherd's pie) and then some prepackaged warm patties or pizza. There was also salad and stuff but from what I can tell few people cared. It is told that all of those were edible but I never confirmed it myself.
You lucky bastards, having a restaurant built into your school. That was never even a thing for me at all.
5141717
Are you saying your school didn't serve lunch?
5141760
Schools, plural. None of them did that.
Only one choice, menu was set ahead of time, and we were lucky to get pizza twice a month.
5141804
So, what method did they use? Was it a case where everyone was supposed to bring lunch, and you ate in the classroom?
I am currently a sophomore in high school, and we have about five choices of meals for lunch. The only permanent item on the menu is your standard peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I’m actually pretty lucky, there’s a decent variety of choices.
5141860
Oh, we still had a dedicated lunchroom, but it was just enough tables for the entire student body and not also providing food. The latter was what lunchboxes were for. (How are those both things that are commonly portrayed?)