So I returned to school today only to find that during winter break that the cafeteria's funding has been cut once again and they have now had to cut back on what was already a sorry excuse for lunch while raising the price by another dollar.
Prior to winter break the price for any of the available lunches in the cafeteria was about $4 with another dollar spent on a drink, so you end up spending a nice changeless fiver on lunch, mind you the only two drink choices were either pint-sized milk cartons or a bottle of tap water (and I'm not talking about Arrowhead).
It was hardly a satisfying meal and the only way to get something more filling was to get something that they would bring in and sell and maybe then you might get a little more food for your dollar and you were also presented with brand name drinks. Another possibility was just going to one of the school's vending machines and get yourself some candy or a 12oz bottle of Gatorade, but you'd end up spending more money just to satiate yourself. By far the best alternative to this problem was to buy lunch from the store at the school's JROTC. Once you had made it through the seemingly mile long line you were presented with a plethora of cheap, filling food, candy, and drinks at prices drastically less than anything else offered on campus, though sadly the school has given the store the ax due to it hurting the rest of their business since the money sold at the store goes to the program and not the school.
Well this year calendar year things have apparently gotten worse, because now lunch costs an even five without a drink and they no longer offer milk at lunch anymore. I wouldn't have a problem paying $6 for a meal at school so long as I'm getting my money's worth, which I am sadly not. That $6 only entitles you to either a sliver of pizza, a dry, cold, cheese-less burger with no fries, a cold, packaged grilled cheese sandwich, or an Uncrustable, and to gulp it down you have recycled, label-less water bottles whose contents are whatever is coming from the kitchen sink that day. And to top it all off, they've locked the gates to the school at lunch and disallowed someone from outside to bring you lunch from somewhere else. SO unless you're making your own lunch, you're fucked. They have also considered to stop accepting meal tickets from children who can't afford lunch in the near future as it appears to be causing the to hemorrhage too much money.
I must ask this: Why is it that a cafeteria has had to resort to such practices in hopes of bringing in more money? Before their patronage was based up the laziness and/or impatience of many of the students who were either didn't want to walk the two to go get something from the McDonald's up the road or couldn't stand to be in a line fore more than 10 minutes to get their lunch, regardless of how cheap the food was, but now it seems the school has had to resort to using some downright dirty tactics in the hopes we might buy their shittily made, over-priced food. What's even more facepalm inducing is that I can walk just a couple of blocks down to the Little Caesar's and get a large pizza for almost $5 straight, yet I can barely get a slice at school for a the same price.
/rant
So has anybody felt like they've been gyped out of their money lately?
Prior to winter break the price for any of the available lunches in the cafeteria was about $4 with another dollar spent on a drink, so you end up spending a nice changeless fiver on lunch, mind you the only two drink choices were either pint-sized milk cartons or a bottle of tap water (and I'm not talking about Arrowhead).
It was hardly a satisfying meal and the only way to get something more filling was to get something that they would bring in and sell and maybe then you might get a little more food for your dollar and you were also presented with brand name drinks. Another possibility was just going to one of the school's vending machines and get yourself some candy or a 12oz bottle of Gatorade, but you'd end up spending more money just to satiate yourself. By far the best alternative to this problem was to buy lunch from the store at the school's JROTC. Once you had made it through the seemingly mile long line you were presented with a plethora of cheap, filling food, candy, and drinks at prices drastically less than anything else offered on campus, though sadly the school has given the store the ax due to it hurting the rest of their business since the money sold at the store goes to the program and not the school.
Well this year calendar year things have apparently gotten worse, because now lunch costs an even five without a drink and they no longer offer milk at lunch anymore. I wouldn't have a problem paying $6 for a meal at school so long as I'm getting my money's worth, which I am sadly not. That $6 only entitles you to either a sliver of pizza, a dry, cold, cheese-less burger with no fries, a cold, packaged grilled cheese sandwich, or an Uncrustable, and to gulp it down you have recycled, label-less water bottles whose contents are whatever is coming from the kitchen sink that day. And to top it all off, they've locked the gates to the school at lunch and disallowed someone from outside to bring you lunch from somewhere else. SO unless you're making your own lunch, you're fucked. They have also considered to stop accepting meal tickets from children who can't afford lunch in the near future as it appears to be causing the to hemorrhage too much money.
I must ask this: Why is it that a cafeteria has had to resort to such practices in hopes of bringing in more money? Before their patronage was based up the laziness and/or impatience of many of the students who were either didn't want to walk the two to go get something from the McDonald's up the road or couldn't stand to be in a line fore more than 10 minutes to get their lunch, regardless of how cheap the food was, but now it seems the school has had to resort to using some downright dirty tactics in the hopes we might buy their shittily made, over-priced food. What's even more facepalm inducing is that I can walk just a couple of blocks down to the Little Caesar's and get a large pizza for almost $5 straight, yet I can barely get a slice at school for a the same price.
/rant
So has anybody felt like they've been gyped out of their money lately?
