Readers Take Sides on Food Delivery Ban for Ridgewood Schools

Readers Take Sides on Food Delivery Ban for Ridgewood Schools

I don’t care what you feed your kids. They can have a bag of Oreos for lunch for all I care. The distribution at the schools is an unnecessary burden and possibly an insurance issue. School property is not yours to use as a distribution center for your favorite deli

Why can’t you suck it up and go to West Side Bagels or Parkwood in the AM? I think that they are open and you will be free to feed your kids the healthy deli food that you crave. Next you will be wanting your dry cleaning there for the convenience.

I think that the food delivery is another “look at me” Ridgewood issue. I am so special that I have my lunch ordered in from a local caterer. Aren’t I special?

 

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Why are these posters so in favor of regulating what should be a free market? Whether lunch is from home, a local business, or purchased at school – it is MY CHOICE. Yes, I have the time and desire to make lunches at home. But when my kids ask for something different, or its my suggestion to patronize a local business – why do you care? My kids tell me their friends still won’t buy in school because the food is terrible. So now I will pick up the lunches on my way to work and drop them off at the schools. Nothing will change – because that is my choice. Kudos to the entrepreneurs and I hope they find a solution. The private sector usually does. .. . . ..

 

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Pack your kids lunch the night before and get over it. Better yet, have them make it themselves! I am a working mom and we’ve been making lunches every night for the last 15 years that my kids have attended RHS. They, too, do not like the food and refuse to buy. Take 5 minutes over the weekend to pick up lunch meats and bread. If the kids want Parkwood, pick it up the night before and pack it up. The school office staff have no business sorting through lunches, dealing with lunch orders that are incorrect, not delivered or stolen. If the vendors can come up with an unobtrusive, workable plan that does not draw down school resources or conflict with contracts, even better.

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I also think that the families should figure out their own healthy lunches. Don’t they feed their kids healthy food at every meal? Sometimes I think that parents hold others to higher standards than they have at home. PB&J is a good lunch, I think that I ate it for 12 years.

I also think that the school should press the food service to offer healthier – and appetizing – selections. I am sure that there are competitors who would love to have the contract.

 

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Pomptonian food service is run by knuckleheads a friend of mine woked for a neighboring school district which was taken over by pomptonian she witnessed firsthand hamburgers being taken off rolls from the day before and put on fresh rolls and served it’s all about them making money they don’t care about the quality of your kids food also pizza that was served in the grammar school was reheated the next day and served to the kids in high school