Is Pizza a vegetable?

[Kagemusha]

I find that rather hard to believe, unless it's a really small (private)school. How do you handle the logistics of fresh products for a big one and beat the big boys prizewise, not possible

Atleast in Finland, the School has its own restaurant where they cook the food.Logistics is no more complicated then logistics of any restaurant.In matter of fact lot more simpler as the variety of dishes is non existant compared to restaurants as they only serve one main variety and few others for those with food allergies etc.

[Fragony]

Atleast in Finland, the School has its own restaurant where they cook the food.Logistics is no more complicated then logistics of any restaurant.In matter of fact lot more simpler as the variety of dishes is non existant compared to restaurants as they only serve one main variety and few others for those with food allergies etc.

Not saying it can't be organised, but you can't outprice mass-production. Someone who says one can is lying.

[Kagemusha]

Not saying it can't be organised, but you can't outprice mass-production. Someone who says one can is lying.

To me as citizen it is much more important that the children are eating healthy food even if it costs bit more compared to eating processed crap so i can save few cents in taxes.

[Fragony]

To me as citizen it is much more important that the children are eating healthy food even if it costs bit more compared to eating processed crap so i can save few cents in taxes.

Of course. It's an excellent proposal of the Obama administration I wish those responsible for this 'pizza is vegetable' trick a traffic-jam in their main arteries for trying to sabotage this.

[Ser Clegane]

Not saying it can't be organised, but you can't outprice mass-production. Someone who says one can is lying.

I actually disagree - do not overestimate the efficiency of the "big boys". Their cost for logistics and overhead can be staggering and out of proportion. I have seen enough canteens/cafeterias to feel pretty confident with the statement that the correlation between size/prize/quality is pretty much non-existant. In theory the big players should beat the "mom-and-pop shops" in reality this is not necessarily the case.

Putting together e.g. a proper pasta dish with a salad for prize that can compete with burgers/pizza is not unfeasible.

[Beskar]

Putting together e.g. a proper pasta dish with a salad for prize that can compete with burgers/pizza is not unfeasible.

However, the quality needs to match. From experience, they got rid of the "good quality" food and replaced it with really poor quality processed "healthier" option.

You cannot simply replace Coca-Cola with a glass of sour milk for the same price, yet that is what happened.

[Ser Clegane]

I think a lot of the problems with canteen food are connected to a "don't care" attitude of those who are in charge. Some dishes are more suitable for high volumes some aren't - obviously the selection also depends on the facilities (can you cook simple stuff in the same building, do you have to keep prepared food warm for a longer time).
Quality depends very much on the people in charge. The university in my home town had canteens scattered all over the place - even among those that were comparable in size the quality of the food varied massively. The canteen at the chemical faculty that I mostly went to was a great example for the level of quality and variety you can offer at such a place.

[Fragony]

Huge company if 100 people eat at the same time, small school has hundreds of students, and the biggies cater hundreds if not thousands of schools.

[Ser Clegane]

Huge company if 100 people eat at the same time, small school has hundreds of students, and the biggies cater hundreds if not thousands of schools.

Not sure what you are trying to say with this statement.

a) 100 people eating at the same time is not a huge company
b) companies also work with external caterers
c) sheer size does not automatically result in being more competitive (General Motors comes to mind)

[Hosakawa Tito]

THIS MEANS BEER'S A VEGETABLE TOO!!!