School Cafeteria Case Study

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Conditions for the Cafeteria Throughout the years, students have made it known how much they detest school lunches. So much, in fact, it’s become a well known element in every high school movie. The main characters meet up in the cafeteria, ready to discuss the matter at hand, but pause to comment on the egregious quality of the school provided food. Although the plot is fiction, the fact that every student has qualms about their school lunches remains true; especially at McKeel Academy of Technology. McKeel Academy has close-to-recently enforced a new ‘no outside food’ policy in which students are not permitted to buy food (e.g. Wendy’s, McDonalds, etc…) and consume on school campus. This policy was put into action so that McKeel could promote the sales of their new food program. The problem with this is that administration has forgotten that McKeel is a school, not a business.While the quality of food at McKeel has certainly enhanced, that doesn’t give them an excuse to revoke the right of the students to nourish themselves how they please. If students were once again able to purchase their own food, there would be plenty of benefits. One benefit would be …show more content…

To take things a bit further, implementing a student complaint forum would do the cafeteria justice. More often than not, McKeel’s cafeteria quality has been less than ideal. I personally have had a situation where I bought a carton of juice, and found that the juice had fermented when I took a sip. I’ve even heard a few other students voice their concerns over the food quality, such as finding that their tater tots are undercooked or not being able to purchase the regular lunch because the food had run out by the time they got to the front of the line. Imagine how many of these issues could be ameliorated by having the students send their complaints to a school monitored inbox that is checked

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