photo credit: Mackenzie Carder
Every school day, highschool students are left with the strenuous choice of deciding what to eat for lunch. The school offers a nice variety of lunch options always having some form of pizza available and another entree.
The school’s cafeteria also accommodates people with certain dietary preferences and has a sub bar. However many students have opinionated preferences of the schools food options, craving some lunches and dreading others.
“[My favorite school lunch entree is] the chicken burrito wrap (chipotle). It tastes really good and it’s a decent portion,” Sophomore Nghiem Pham said. All of the cafe’s entrees come with a fruit, a veggie, and a milk.
The cafe usually offers some form of pizza as an entree option each day, rotating between: Romeo’s, Jet’s, Donatos, Papa Johns and Pizza Hut. Tuesdays traditionally serve Jet’s pizza.
“[My favorite entree is] the little pizza bites because it tastes the best out of everything,” sophomore Monica Do said. The pizza crunchers are also a popular entree building off of students’ liking for traditional pizza.
The lunchroom staff have also noticed lunches that are generally popular. Each school entree costs $3.00 and a premium entree is $3.50.
“The most popular is probably Asian [food] or Mexican [food], they’re pretty close, I’d say Asian,” Lunch room staff member John Charlie said. The Asian food entree includes a bowl of pot stickers, and the Mexican entree includes a bowl of mexican rice, beans, corn, et cetera, and a bag of tortilla chips (both provided with the given fruit, veggie and milk).
In addition to the entrees, many students are adamant devotees of the cafe’s A La Carte snack items. At the meal register, students with appropriate funds may choose a snack from a cart behind the register.
“[I would say that the most popular] snack item [is] the chocolate chip cookies,” Charlie said. The cart offers a variety of chips, cookies, fruitsnacks, and more.
Moreover, before students meet the checkout, they are presented with fridges full of purchasable drinks including Gatorades, Ices, energy drinks, and more. These beverages range from the cheapest being $0.50 to the most expensive being $2.50.
“My favorite drink is the raspberry blue ice caffeine,” sophomore Alanna Smith said. The price of the Sparkling Ice energy drinks fall at $2.00.
To say that the cafeteria staff ensure that students are well fed would be an understatement. The lunches provided to students on a daily basis are good portioned, affordable, and meet the necessary nutrient demands required to fuel students’ and staffs’ school days.
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