I genitori in Inghilterra pagano di più per i pranzi scolastici poiché i ristoratori danno la colpa all’aumento dei costi
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/aug/30/parents-england-pay-more-school-lunches-caterers-blame-rising-costs
di Shiny-Tie-126
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Food inflation is getting towards 5%, prices are going to have to go up.
The meals were already made on a shoestring budget with relatively low-quality ingredients and poorly-paid staff for the most part. There has never been enough money for school lunches and it’s frankly amazing what schools and caterers have been able to do with what they have. Prices were always going to go up, like my weekly shopping budget has. Bonus last line – “The Guardian was unable to reach schools for comment” yeah it’s the fuckin holidays ya genius.
Maybe this will be unpopular but…
It’s perfectly reasonable for parents to pay to feed their own children, and if the prices have gone up then they need to pay more.
So rising food costs, increase in Ers NI, increase in minimum wage, I guess that’ll do it.
The last two are government initiatives as well.
They’ve gone up about 3.1%.
So the real story is actually a good news story. School lunches have gone up LESS than both the rate of inflation and average increases in wages and as such are now cheaper in real terms than they were a year ago.
Having worked in several schools I’ve seen these free lunches. A lot of it was disgusting and looked inedible. In fact, some had to be returned to the kitchen. The bins were overflowing. I guess it depends on the school but the ones I saw were shocking.
I wonder how all these privatised caters stack up to having someone cook on site paid for in house? The LA could come up with menus and buy ingredients to give to schools to cook. Seemed to work up until the 2000s and yet another bit of privatisation no doubt costing tax payers double.