Addressing Food Shortages in School Cafeterias

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Why the school cafeteria should not run out of food.
School cafeteria’s run out of food often. Students end up hungry for the rest of the day. This a problem because students need energy to stay awake and for after school sports. Another reason it is a problem because students may fall asleep. If this happens students will be behind on school work.

One reason why the school cafeteria should not run out of food is because students depend on the cafeteria to provide food for them. When the cafeteria runs out of food students usually don’t eat and if they do it is something small from the vending machines. If the students didn’t bring money for vending machines then they have nothing to eat. Also, when the food runs out kids are left hungry for the rest of school. If the lunchroom runs out the main courses and they offer to make the kid another meal choice, it could take some time leaving the student having little time to eat and late for their …show more content…

Kids need energy to do and feel their best in sports or other activities. Having no food leaves the students with no energy and students might fall asleep in class or just tune out the teacher for that class period because they feel drowsy.When students tune out or fall asleep they are missing out on learning and will be behind the other students in learning and class work. This causes students to get bad grades

One reason the school should run out food is because they waste the schools money and if all the food does not get eaten and they should not use the food again. Some school districts do not have enough money to waste any food so, they try not to make too much because they can not afford it.The cafeteria workers predict how any meals they need daily by retrieving data based on how many students eat daily. It is hard to get the exact number of how many students are going to

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