I am old enough to know that our high school didn’t have a cafeteria. We all carried out lunches & bought a pint of milt for a nickel from a dispensing machine.
I went to a one room school for elementary grades, & carried out lunches there, also.
IMO, the cost of building & running a cafeteria is a total waste of taxpayer money.
Our school got food from the old Commodity Program to make great meals. That was when the government was useful..........
I remember see that while watching reruns of Little House on the Prairie...
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