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So how many minutes would it take to make your grits? Well perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove! Were these magic grits? I mean, did you buy them from the same guy who sold Jack his beanstalk beans?!
If I was a student I would just want to get rid of Aramark for the food. My grade school used them and it always tasted like shit. >

When I first started working at my school the food was actually “decent” they made staff lunches and most teachers would get it almost every day.  The food the kids got was pretty standard school food, but it was fine.  Then Aramark came in.  No more staff lunches and while we are certainly allowed to buy food from the student line, I don’t know a single adult that would.  It’s pretty awful.  
However you know Aramark’s food sucks, but the contract the school signed is also super restrictive.  Home economics teachers have a hard time ordering ingredients since all food purchases must go through Aramark.  The school guarantees a certain number of days where lunch is served so all half days must have lunch even if the timing makes no sense.  It even restricts how we handle emergency closures.  Of course now the district doesn’t have to give any benefits to underpaid “lunch ladies” so it will never go away. >

My wife tried to be friendly with the trustees and she was effectively run out of the job for acting like they are human beings deserving of even the basics of human decency. This was in a prison though... Not sure about their school side 🤔
You cannot have a kind heart and work for Aramark, apparently. >

School side and prison side are probably the same side. >

When my campus had them the truck's next stop after us was San Quentin  prison. 
Then we changed to a cheaper food supplier :( >

They reportedly were serving maggot and rat infested meals in Detroit prisons, as well as food taken out of the trash. You guys made the correct choice. >

We’re having homemade fried catfish, instant grits, collard greens, fried breaded okra and some black eyed peas for dinner and we always have enough for company! >

No self respecting southerner eats instant grits