How does our food manager of WMS deal with last-minute call-outs and shortages? Well based on the information gathered in the interview, she and the other cafeteria staff do the best they can and all work together–so sometimes when they’re shorthanded they use things like paper trays.

Managing food allergies and dietary restrictions for almost 400 students really is tough…however the staff of WMS work together to get through it, and the cafeteria staff have things that make it way easier for them! Did you know that whenever you type that 4 digit code in whenever you grab a school lunch that if you have any food allergies or dietary restrictions—that pops up on the cafeteria staff's screen to let them know? The cafeteria staff and the nurses work together…the nurses tell them if a student has a dietary restriction or allergy…and the cafeteria staff cannot serve peanut butter at all! 

Making sure that all the food they serve is both nutritious and appealing to the students while meeting USDA requirements. Currently, the cafeteria staff are trying their best to do all these things! Even while meeting the USDA requirements. They also hired a district chef to make food more enjoyable and the taste. 

Have you ever wondered how the food manager deals with minimalizing food waste and leftovers? We reuse leftovers the next day–and try hard to stop kids from throwing food away…

The process our WMS food manager goes through daily–is what she claims humorously is her worst job she has to do–inventory! At the end of every month she has to go through all her dry goods, frozen goods, refrigerated goods, chemicals–and do inventory of everything she has left…she orders every Thursday and it comes in every Tuesday. She has to do this process every week since our school—WMS—has the smallest freezers of the schools in the district yet almost the same amount of students in the high school.  

If you did not know about the POS(Point of Sales) system it is the system that the food manager uses to keep track of financial reports. The food manager keeps track of the numbers she gets off her computer daily from things like kids buying extra lunches/doubles lunches and bags of chips and cookies on Fridays.

How does the food manager of WMS handle feedback and constructive criticism by students and staff? She tells her boss that they did not like something—like the local items–for example, the butternut squash fries or fish sticks. 

The most rewarding part of the food managers day she claims is talking to all the kids and socializing with them.  However, the biggest challenge of her day is making sure all the food stays warm and that they have enough for all the children up to the last lunch, and if not, they have to improvise. 

Overall, without a food manager in WMS, lunch would be in shambles! The food manager gets things running–and manages a lot of jobs necessary for keeping the children full and happy…

There are many flavors of sushi including sauces such as soy sauce which is very salty and then there is sea food stuffed within the sushi that tastes fishy. The sushi is wrapped with a tight casing of sea weed that tastes salty and a bit fishy, the seaweed has sticky rice surrounding it and it adds to the texture.

Sushi is filled with a lot of texture. The rice and seaweed wrapping all of the sea food add to the texture a lot. The seaweed can be hard to tear apart sometimes because it can be served with thick layers. The vegetables and crab tend to be crunchy along with some of the toppings.

Sushi is ordered in rolls and that includes six pieces of sushi. It is normally eaten in one bite depending on the type of sushi and how it is prepared.

I don't have a favorite part of sushi but if I had to choose it would be the spicy sauce that is drizzled over the top. I always order the spicy sauce because it adds to the flavor a lot.

Sushi is my absolute favorite food and if I go to a restaurant and see sushi on the menu I'm ordering it.

Personally I do not have a critique for sushi because it has such a wide variety of options for seafood and vegetables and there are even a bunch of options for rice. Sushi is such a good dish because it has many options to choose from so it does not ever get boring.

I would suggest sushi restaurants to set up a "make your own sushi" bar if they do not have it yet because for people that are picky eaters they might not like what is being served so it gives them more options to choose from to eat.

I think that most people that enjoy seafood will enjoy sushi because it has a lot of options for fish, crab, vegetables and sauce. People can make it the way they like it so it is hard not to enjoy it.

I think sushi is a bit expensive depending where you go but it is very worth it. Sushi can be expensive for a single roll including six pieces, I still enjoy it so much and I don't go out to eat it much but I buy it from BigY a lot.

Overall I think that sushi is very good and since it is my favorite food, I rate it a 10/10

I have always had positive thoughts about sushi and I used to not like sea food but sushi changed that for me. I love sushi and I am hoping that I always do. Sushi tastes very good and it is healthy.

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Students aren't actually learning. School has become a competitive, checklist-driven environment where the focus is on achieving high grades rather than fostering a genuine love of learning. According to The National Library of Medicine this can "lead to negative consequences like decreased psychological well-being."

Students are starting to rely on AI. By stressing good test results and grades students often get lazy and rely on AI to do the work for them. "Over 60% of students use AI for help with school work" according to Harvard Graduate School.

It causes increased anxiety. By pressuring good grades students get anxious and that leads to them using AI.”A fixation on grades and standardized tests creates anxiety and lowers self-esteem" according to Education Week.

Some teachers still give completion grades to help the student focus on learning and not worry so much about what they got wrong so it doesn't affect their grade. Although some teachers do this it doesn't apply to most teachers and almost every test.

School environments have made school more about getting good grades than actually learning. Find other ways to learn instead of using AI and don't put so much pressure on themselves.