Hot lunch is provided every week by the junior (jr.) high leadership class as well as parent volunteers.
The jr. high leadership, led by Hallie Rojeski, is in charge of providing hot lunch on Tuesdays. Rojeski gives her opinion on the hot lunch system.
“I started this through a mutual thing between the junior high leadership and myself,” Rojeski said. “We started talking about how we could be of service to the school. We thought maybe we could do something like that {hot lunch}. After the initial concept came up, a few parents volunteered to help.”
All the profit made from the six dollar charge for the lunches goes back to jr. high leadership and was used last year for awards.
Aida Torres, parent of FC students Alejandro and Natalia, hot lunch provider for Tuesday, explains how she got involved in lunch.
“The school was asking for volunteers and we noticed that there were flyers on the walls advertising lunches from different places, different days,” Torres said. “There is always a need for more volunteers, especially on days when the regular scheduled people cannot make it in.”
Currently the jr. high and high school leadership, as well as other clubs and groups, help with working the hot lunch table and serving meals.
The cost of hot lunch right now is $6 for a regular meal, which usually comes with a water or a different kind of drink. However, two years ago lunch cost $5. Rojeski talks about the change in price.
“I think it [the raise in price] was just because the prices of the food have gone up, ” Rojeski said. “I mean we were losing money with Wendy’s, we would sell 50 lunches after paying 100 bucks for it.”
This change in price greatly affects the amount of people that take advantage of the hot lunch system. Rojeski talks about the students who don’t use the hot lunch.
“It depends on what you serve,” Rojeski said. “Would I say that half of the student body is using it, no, but a six dollar charge is a lot when you think about it.”
Many students don’t enjoy all of the hot lunches. Zachary Smith, ’11, is a student who remembers past hot lunches that didn’t satisfy.
“I’m okay with hot lunches, I just don’t like the prepackaged stuff they served last year, those were horrible,” Smith said.
Smith referes to the Revolution Food hot lunches that were prepackaged. The Feather published a letter that talks about the lack of quality in their foods.
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