Lunch is $3 for all grade levels?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Free lunch last year was awful. Major supply issues. Kids taking way more than they needed because it was free. Not having enough for kids late to the line. Poor selection. Food was cold or undercooked because of the vast quantity they had to prepare. The posted menu was never right. I could go on. Now that lunch is a small fee again this year, Everything seems to be much better. Food is actually hot. What’s on the menu is actually served.

By the way, things have changed. Kids from higher income families don’t buy school lunch anymore. Everyone packs it. Except maybe pizza day. So the stories of how it used to be back when we were kids don’t apply now days.

The supplier is the same and got paid via contract this year and last. The change didn’t affect them; it just changed whether government or families bear the cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Free lunch last year was awful. Major supply issues. Kids taking way more than they needed because it was free. Not having enough for kids late to the line. Poor selection. Food was cold or undercooked because of the vast quantity they had to prepare. The posted menu was never right. I could go on. Now that lunch is a small fee again this year, Everything seems to be much better. Food is actually hot. What’s on the menu is actually served.

By the way, things have changed. Kids from higher income families don’t buy school lunch anymore. Everyone packs it. Except maybe pizza day. So the stories of how it used to be back when we were kids don’t apply now days.

My kid buys lunch and we are higher income - and so do her friends (can’t say for sure their incomes, but by outward appearances they are high income)

Our school is like 50/50 through K and then like 75% buy lunch from 1st up and we're not a T1...

[Anonymous]

There was a TON of food waste when lunches were free. Seriously. A ton. Kids would ask for a lunch even if they had a packed lunch, because it sounds good on the menu, and then would look at it and throw it away.

At our school, if a kid doesn’t have lunch, they get a school lunch … no questions. It get credited to their account, but I have been told that this is largely irrelevant if no one ever pays/settles the account. So, in my preK room at least, everyone has the food they need and no one is any the wiser.