The School Lunch

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...in the neighborhood of the school. They are frequently older women whose training has been that of home-makers and who are not fitted for factory work and yet find in the school lunch rooms, because of the shorter working week, a satisfactory means of livelihood. The work which these helpers do is that of preparing and cooking, serving and cleaning up. A man usually attends to the cleaning of the lunch rooms and operating the dish-washing machine. According to the plan of work, each helper has her definite duties in the preparation or cooking and in the cleaning after lunch is over, and all help during the period of serving, each having her regular place at the counter and her part of the serving. The women assistants wear a white shirt-waist and black skirt. A white serving apron is furnished by the department. The same standard of cleanliness is required of these workers as for the dietitian and her assistant and they are thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the lunch room. No one who is dissatisfied is kept. The fact that the work is made interchangeable and that the dietitian and her assistant work side by side with the helpers removes from the work any suggestion of the menial. A sufficient corps of workers is maintained in each school so that if one is absent the service is not crippled. Student Aids As a means of supplementing the working force of the lunch room and of linking the system more closely with the school, student aids are used to assist with the serving of the lunch. From ten to fifteen of these aids serve during the lunch period each day. They are chosen in different ways in different schools. In some schools they are selected from the honor students and are under the supervision of a teacher. In other schools certain pupils from special...