School lunches are important for which reasons? This depends on who is concerned. Celebrity chefs have made a point to improve the health of school lunch. Cafeteria managers and school administrators are more concerned about effectively doing their job rather than what a lunch offers for the health of young minds. Different opinions have shown new light on how the ineffective school lunch has created a society that views food for all the wrong reasons.
Celebrity chefs have taken on the challenge of lunchroom diets. Susan Levine claims that their task is daunting but their goal is to "prove that school lunches can be healthy (Levine)." Celebrity chefs are not alone in concentrating on lunchroom meals. Lunchrooms are still guided by the federal government. This means that lunchroom managers can not serve just anything to students. They must serve what follows under federal guidelines. Collaboration is possible between federal guidelines and celebrity chefs, but the problem of cost is a major factor. "The U.S. Department of Agriculture surplus commodities that
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They "actually contribute to the crises we've seen emerging over the last decade (Cooper and Holmes)." What many feel is important to a balanced diet is not what is respected in the lunchroom. Rather than looking at health benefits, lunchrooms have shown more attention to how fast they can serve food and how cheap they can serve that lunch for. This creates an institution of how the general population views food. How cheap they get their food and how fast they get it has been held as more important than healthy the food may actually be. In these situations the value of food is no respected. However, there is not so much as one individual to blame, but an institution of the wrong concerns to blame. On top of speed and cost (which is valued from all over) how quite a lunchroom is with no standards being violated is what determines an effective lunch for