So what would it sell and how much would it cost?

Obviously, as just brought up, the square pizza and sloppy joes, but what else would be on the menu? The atmosphere? What's our business plan here?



Inspired by: Mr. Joshua

Quote :

"I wonder how a school cafeteria themed restaurant would do. Sloppy joes, square pizza, shitty canned fruit drinks, etc all served on a styrofoam tray. Obviously it would all be value priced."

[Edited on November 6, 2007 at 3:06 PM. Reason : cite]

11/6/2007 3:04:35 PM

you cannot make a living off of $1.10 lunches.

11/6/2007 3:05:49 PM

JAGER BOMBS

SKANKS

11/6/2007 3:06:40 PM

tater tots and those cookies with cream in the middle

11/6/2007 3:07:00 PM

Those little steamed cheeseburgers with the soggy buns.

11/6/2007 3:07:16 PM

i wouldnt even let my kids eat there

11/6/2007 3:07:19 PM

how do we deal with people who have numbers, and use the numbers at multiple lines, and also give their friends their numbers?

11/6/2007 3:07:48 PM

I'm sure the best crowd would be late night.

11/6/2007 3:08:00 PM

wtf, numbers?

11/6/2007 3:08:45 PM

anyone a fan of the gooey pb sandwich on soup day? or the hard grilled cheese? how about the chicken sandwich in a plastic bag

11/6/2007 3:09:15 PM

when domino's got tiresome back in high school, i would kill some tacos and hot dogs in the "other" line

11/6/2007 3:09:21 PM

numbers, i don't know the exact term, but the kids in need got numbers that they memorized and told the lunch ladies for free lunch

11/6/2007 3:10:00 PM

Kiwi would be the lunchlady

11/6/2007 3:10:09 PM

i think the numbers were for free, reduced, and prepaid kids

11/6/2007 3:10:35 PM

yes, thank you, the reduced lunch kids

i hope they do a better job checking those now, because i remember a bunch of people using the same number in multiple lines at the same time that their friends did, great scam actually

11/6/2007 3:12:33 PM

my mom never gave us the money to buy that garbage

11/6/2007 3:12:39 PM

i was always jealous of the free lunch kids but at the same time i felt superior to them

11/6/2007 3:12:42 PM

11/6/2007 3:13:05 PM

turkey noodles


fiestada

11/6/2007 3:14:37 PM

That taco salad thing where they gave you a bunch of ground meat and some stale corn tortillas to eat it with.

11/6/2007 3:15:24 PM

taco salad day and chicken pie day were the days EVERYONE ran to the cafeteria at my highschool because the lines were super long

11/6/2007 3:16:50 PM

you guys are idiots

11/6/2007 3:17:05 PM

Common lunchroom foods that I remember:

pitas w/cubed ham and shredded cheddar
salisbury steak
rib-shaped meat
fish nuggets (nobody ever seemed to like those)
those little hot rolls that were like 20 cents each
jello with fruit suspended inside it

Quote :

"how about the chicken sandwich in a plastic bag"

Ours were not in plastic bags, but the chixn sandwiches weren't bad. They had pickles on them to try to be all chick-fil-a....

[Edited on November 6, 2007 at 3:18 PM. Reason : d]

11/6/2007 3:17:51 PM

nothing like jello with hair in the mold

11/6/2007 3:18:34 PM

fridays were always grilled cheese and soup days....that was my favorite day of lunch

11/6/2007 3:19:00 PM

i really think the 'numbers' were for prepaid too, and they did it that way so the kids couldnt single out who was what and pick on the poor kids. it seems like prepaid was an option. if not, it should be. especially now that prices have to be like doubled what they were. i doubt many kids are good enough at managing money to get a 20 every week to last. i know my folks wouldnt even trust me with a 10, i got mine on a daily basis. must be a bitch to make sure you always have 2 bucks on hand every morning per kid. not just the money, but the actual having it and not going to the atm then breaking it at the store etc etc

lunch was like 1.50 or something when i last ate in the CAF (maybe 1994-95... before the money came in handy for daily school skipping snacks)

how much is lunch in the high schools now, anyone know? i bet its like 3 bucks a day.

god why am i here talking about this, im a procrastinating fool

11/6/2007 3:19:58 PM

I remember winning a contest at my middle school and getting to eat an Arch Deluxe in the cafeteria.

If you're too young, the Arch Deluxe was an early attempt by McDonalds to make a burger that didn't suck circa 1994.

11/6/2007 3:21:17 PM

in kindegarden(90-91) mine was 1 dollar...1st grade went to like 1.10...when i got to middle school and highschool it was 1.5 until senior year(2002-2003) it went up to 1.75

11/6/2007 3:21:21 PM

Gah. You were in kindergarten in 1990-91? That was 5th grade for me...

11/6/2007 3:25:27 PM

i honestly think this restaurant would do well.. especially on hillsborough st. across from state

who wants to venture into this with me

11/6/2007 3:26:03 PM

^^lol yeah...get this...i was in an LDS seminar yesterday, and the lecturer was like i graduated college in 1986...how many of you were born before 1986

i was like one of 5 people to raise their hand in a group of 30

i was like god damn....

[Edited on November 6, 2007 at 3:26 PM. Reason : .]

11/6/2007 3:26:32 PM

frito pies

and hte worst mashed potatoes known to man


(and fwiw, this is why >85% of new resturaunt ventures fail)

11/6/2007 3:27:23 PM

Salisbury motherfucking steak

11/6/2007 3:51:11 PM

sometimes I would grab breakfast if I got there early enough. The sausage biscuits heated in plastic packaging were the heat.

was that just my school?...what a bad idea.

11/6/2007 3:52:39 PM

i always ate breakfast at home but once in a blue moon i would get the sausage biscuits in the plastic packaging...shits were good

11/6/2007 3:54:12 PM

lunch was only $1.25 when I graduated from high school in 2001. In kindergarten (1988), it was $1.10.

11/6/2007 3:54:23 PM

rectangular breakfast pizza yo

11/6/2007 4:05:22 PM

i never ate breakfast at school unless it was breakfast for lunch day and that shit was ftw

11/6/2007 4:05:46 PM

Well you could do breakfast too and have:
Super Doughnuts
Breakfast Pizza

Some things I can remember off the top of my head from our lunches:
Chicken Nuggets
Rectangle Pizza (sometimes normal shaped when it was "special")
Salad/Deli line
Turkey (with mashed potatoes)
Taco Salad
Chicken "Grillers" (always looked under-cooked)
Chicken sandwiches
Hot Dogs/Corndogs
Soy Burgers (with or without cheese)
Sloppy Joes
Vegetable Soup w/ Grilled Cheese sandwich

And you can't forget to have the small milk cartons, white or chocolate of course.

11/6/2007 4:07:14 PM

I remember having barbeque sandwiches and footlong hotdogs too.

Fiestada. And the pork chop burger thing. The hoagie burger.

11/6/2007 4:13:10 PM

Y'all must be really old if you do not remember how the numbers worked. You type in the number and the NAME POPS UP! Don't you think they catch on when the same name pops up 10 times a day? YES. Lunch ladies do memorize kids faces and names... I mean, that's all they do is take numbers, names, and money. And each kid for 4 years with the same number.

I honestly do not see how anyone ever got away with this unless it was when numbers first started being used... which would make you old.


chicken pot pie day

[Edited on November 6, 2007 at 4:17 PM. Reason : ]

11/6/2007 4:17:26 PM

jesus. thats some cheap ass meals

lunch for me cost 4-5 dollars. but then again i didnt go to public school

11/6/2007 4:22:25 PM

I was a reduced lunch kid

11/6/2007 4:25:05 PM

I remember paying with a check, and then having the lunch lady look up my name on the clipboard to check it.

I also remember walking away from the cashier/lunch lady in the first grade, and having projectile vomit that covered me, my food, and the floor around me. I just stood there crying till my teacher came to help. hahahah

11/6/2007 4:27:03 PM

Oh don't forget the BBQ Rib sandwiches, haha.

11/6/2007 4:27:53 PM

country fried steak and mashed potatoes with gravy

11/6/2007 6:33:14 PM

I remember the ripoff McRibs that they sold too.

My lunch when I graduated in 2000 was $1.15. I remember that everyday it was always $2.00 after buying lunch and then a Jungle Juice (carton of cheap kool-aid) and a dessert. Eventually they switched to Frutopia, which was good, but can't replace drinking Jungle Juice out of a large cardboard milk container.

As for the numbers, they didn't enter them in the register at my highschool to my knowledge, but they did usually have a clipboard with tons of numbers and names on it, which I guess they got lazy with, hence being able to use it multiple times. Also, if it was on a clipboard, multiple lines couldn't avoid being scammed until they checked them after lunch, which I seriously doubt they did.

I always thought the Fried Chicken day was amazing, and better than KFC. It was serious stuff that would make the lines circle the cafeteria. That was the day you made sure you had $3.00 so you could get double chicken.

11/7/2007 10:32:21 AM

you know what's fucked up?

a lot of the food that they serve in school cafeterias, they also serve in prison

11/7/2007 10:33:52 AM

So you're telling me that prisoners get to eat fake McRibs and square pizzas every day?

Prison Mike lied to me






[Edited on November 7, 2007 at 10:48 AM. Reason : .]

11/7/2007 10:47:39 AM

I'm telling you that a lot of the food fed to your kids in school is also fed to prisoners

same companies that supply the food. Prepared in similar ways, etc...

11/7/2007 11:05:56 AM