I’ve always had this question about exclusive private schools for extremely rich kids, like kids from multi-multi-millionaire families. This question applies to private schools from elementary to high school. Do their private chefs just pack them lunches, or do private schools have high-end food for lunch in the cafeterias?
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I was brought in as a contractor for a week at a private school once here in the UK. The food was okay but on the nicer/posher end of „nothing special“. But what did strike me was that between two periods one of the girls felt peckish so just wandered in to the kitchen and made herself cheese on toast. Nobody treated that like it was anything unusual.
I went to a fancy boarding school growing up. The food was average. It was made by a staff for almost 200 kids, so they didn’t really seem to go out of their way to make it special except for around the holidays.
Most kids kept snacks back in the room because they didn’t like the food.
My kids took tae kwon do with some kids who went to a nice private school - not billionaire money, but known to be very nice. The thing that was really impressive to me was that they had a fruit cart that sat out all day and kids could go get a piece of fruit anytime they wanted. It seems so simple but that idea of stopping to grab a pear between classes blew my mind.
Oh shit that’s a great idea for any school to have-- and take it from me, I literally studied education in grad school. Healthy food availability is 100% a good thing for academics and from a discipline standpoint (hungry -> grumpy). Public schools in many states just barely getting free breakfast though, so at least there’s progress.
What next, private schools with nap rooms for sleepy teenagers?
the school’s owner siphons off all the resources, leaving very little for the teachers, staff, and students to utilize.
2 guys cook cafeteria fare for the whole school - they don’t have time to get fancy. they want to make good food, even though they don’t get paid very well, but the ingredients they’re given are mid shelf cans of things purchased from bulk warehouse stores like Costco or Sam’s Club or whatever the local equivalent is. it tastes decent and checks all the nutritional boxes, but is less exciting than food you can make at home or buy from a restaurant.
Your local cafeterias dont havr access to food purveyors (like sysco/ sodexo/ kineally?)
We send my son to private school. It’s not for multimillionaires, but it’s basically the cost of a second mortgage. We make his lunch every morning. Today it was a bean taco with cantaloupe, olives, cherry tomatoes, and cheese crackers.
Private schools in the UK serve awful food. Stews, custard with a skin, spotted dick, that kind of stuff.
are you referring to the UK or the American concept of Private schools? It’s backwards over there, right? Private are the basic schools most people go to whereas Public schools are the fancy ones rich kids get sent to?
Wha I find crazy is that my best food I ever had in school was in junior high in Oklahoma we had a salad line, a main line, Taco Bell express, slushies, candies and pastries and on thursdays we had delivered pizzas, and I think the nachoes were every day as well. Never seen a school have so much choice ever since.
