We are packed in like sardines!

It’s a well-known fact that the earlier one makes it to the cafeteria for lunch, the better. Veterans of the lunchroom line know that it often takes more time getting out of the line than it does to eat their food. Think about it, students get thirty-five minutes for lunch every day and up to twenty minutes are spent on simply getting and paying for their food. For most students, this means being packed in an overcrowded cafeteria fighting for a spot in line with hundreds of other people. 

While the lunch line has been a problem for years, it’s particularly bad now. A major factor to the increased volume in the cafeteria is the school’s switch to Veracross. Veracross has replaced My Backpack as the student information system. With this switch, every student on campus received a brand-new student ID number. Of course, these numbers are needed by students in order to pay for their food or supplies at the cafeteria, canteen, campus store, and stadium.

Now, students who have had their student number memorized for four plus years are having to find and memorize new ones. This dramatically increases the time it takes to get lunch and dramatically decreases the efficiency of the cafeteria. Because of this, some students have decided to wait until halfway through lunch to get their food and others have chosen to simply not eat.