Reply #70: You have to hire cooks & have cooking facilities

[SoCalDem]

Many of the "newer" schools are awash with microwaves & steam-tables for reheating

You also have to hire REAL PEOPLE to prep, cook & clean up.

Using the "system" they have now, you only need people to nuke it, pass it out, and the the custodians clean up the mess..

Here's what MY high school menu was:

(from a thread the other day.. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=431222

SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Thu Feb-17-11 11:30 AM
Response to Reply #477

480. Ours had:

every day:
home made chili
home made vegetable soup
home made chocolate cake
green salad
assorted jellos
little cuplets of choc or vanilla ice cream (with the little wooden spoon on top)
home made parkerhouse dinner rolls
hamburgers (not frozen & reheated)
hot dogs
cooked corn
green beans
scalloped potatoes
macaroni & cheese
small bags of chips
apples
oranges
peanut butter & jelly sandwiches
iced tea (unsweetened)..and there were no sugar packets, or salt & pepper on the tables
water
milk (no flavored milk)


and then every day there were a few "specials"
(some of the ones I remember)

lasagna
goulash (to DIE for)
sloppy joes
spaghetti
ham & beans
baked chicken
ham
roast beef
meatloaf

Our cafeteria was SO good, that we had three tables to one side that the people from nearby businesses used .. They paid $3.00 for lunch & augmented the lunch program.

Our "lunch-ladies" showed up in three shifts:

the bakers & prep people showed up at 2:00AM and left around 7
the next shift showed up then, and cooked the main dishes..they left around 2
another shift showed up at 10AM and stayed for clean up ..left around 3PM