@JustOneDad,
I have the perspective of a parent w 2 kids in two different boarding schools in the US.
The schools feed hundreds of students 3 square meals per day, plus an evening “feed” during study hall hours.The schools also make meal accommodations for the kids w late athletic training schedules. Faculty & staff also get fed. These little schools also have to “provide facilities, insurance or paid staff to cook and clean up”.
My kids are growing adolescent boys w demanding athletic schedules and Godzilla-sized appetites. The younger boy can put away in one sitting a burrito the size of a loaf of bread. Neither kid has ever gone hungry at their school. The schools provide nutritionally balanced meals, w some holiday splurges. I’ve sampled the boarding school food during Parent Weekends. They’re not just feeding the kids ramen and passing off ketchup as a vegetable…
If dinky sized boarding schools w/o the economies of scale enjoyed by biga$$ universities can figure out how to feed its students, I can’t understand why universities can’t figure it out.
I’m not “implying there is some sort of wrong-doing in the entire university food industry”, I’m stating there appears to be outright gouging