Lunch

B e h i n d t h e S c e n e s a t L u n c h    By Kayla Burgess, Hannah Strosser, Sophia Mussare **Do you want to know more about the kitchen and the food at Rommelt Middle School in South Williamsport? ** **Did you know that one lunch lady comes to work at 7:30 AM to start cooking the food? Then a couple of other ladies come and prepare the food for the kids. After everybody is done, they start cleaning the trays. They leave at 1:30 PM. The food comes from Reinhart and Snyder Valley Farms. Government standards make all the food choices. Every week they get snacks; every other week is when the milk gets here. ** **One of the new food choices is the popcorn mashed potato bowl and the breakfast round. Also, coming soon is food of the month. ** **The lunch ladies eat their own food or they eat the food that we eat at lunch. Each day they make at least 212 servings for the 5th and 6th graders. If they don’t have enough food, then they go up to Central to get leftovers. Mrs. Bacon, the cafeteria supervisor, loves her job. ** **The most favorite food choice of kids was tacos. Brianna Pfirman’s least favorite is barbeque rib on bun. Connor Rutan’s favorite is the burgers and his least favorite is pizza. He wishes that we could have Skittles as a snack. Sarah Person’s favorite is the Italian dunkers. Alyssa Barto’s least favorite is the hoagies. All of these students are fifth or sixth graders at Rommelt. **

**Mrs. Bacon told us they have two steamers to cook anything like vegetables. They also only have one oven to cook the food! There is one dishwasher machine and big sinks. ** **There is one little freezer space which is in the kitchen, but there is another freezer and two coolers. They have one door that goes outside in the kitchen. When you walk into the kitchen, there is a table for cold food and a table for steamed food. They put the food on that to keep the food warm or cold, depending on the way you like it. Mrs. Bacon said some of the equipment was transported from other schools. ** **Have you ever wondered what that door is by the entrance in the cafeteria? Well, that is where all of the computer stuff for the whole school is housed. They also put water in there and they store the snacks in there. That is where one of the coolers is. **
 * In conclusion, now you know most of everything about our lunch here at Rommelt. **