#100daysofrant

Before I start ranting let me make one thing clear, I'm not a picky eater; I will eat most things ranging from ant eggs (thank you mexican fine dining) all the way to goose liver (foie gras for those of you who actually know what it means). Although I will eat mostly anything that looks edible, and is in a plate in front of me, one thing I can't tolerate, is food that looks like it was prepared by someone who shouldn't be fu%£#ng making it to start with. We've all come across the cafeteria people who look at you with a look of eternal disgust when they hand you your food right after you've paid up. That brings up another idea, they hand you your food with the hand that just took your money, someone please tell me I'm not the only one who finds that disgusting? Seriously though, you have no way to know where that money's been before, more importantly think that they've been handling other people's money before accepting yours ... Anyways enough on that side note, back to what this is actually about.

The idea behind cafeteria food is that it provide a 'healthy' (to some extent) alternative to food you would usually make (or get if you live with your parents) when you're at home, for what should in theory be a fair price. This is however a bunch of bullcrap in reality. Just to give you an example, at my school's cafeteria (may a hole into hell open up and swallow it whole) if I want to get a bag of chips with Worcestershire sauce, they'll charge me the mexican equivalent to two US Dollars. Crazy, right!? In the civilized world (the food stand right on the school's corner) I can get a whole flipping hamburger for the same price ... OUTRAGEOUS I KNOW

Problem with most cafeterias in the world, is that their service is provided by multinational companies *cough* Aramark anyone *cough*. The issue is that these companies don't really care about quality so much as they care about the profit margins they can show their stockholders. Taking Aramark as an example, does anyone know their main clients? (If you did without me telling you send me a message I'm curious to know how many people know this ... no googling cheaters) After that brief parenthesis, Aramark's main customer are half of the United States' jails. So next time you hear Aramark, a "professional multinational company that's committed to the highest standards of service" and whatnot, remember the company is used to serving jails, so this means you're getting what exactly when you order a veggie wrap for your after school lunch?

Again going back on the point that I'd eat most about anything you put in a plate in front of me, there's one important thing I have to say. When I'm paying for food, and they're overcharging me (the two dollar chips for example), I'm expecting a certain quality of food AT LEAST. So when I have to pay the equivalent to $4 USD for a small chicken wrap, I expect the meat to ALWAYS be fully cooked, I expect the lettuce to be fresh, I expect the tomatoes not to taste as though they forgot to wash them, and a number of other things. OK, now that that's off my chest, let me tell y'all why I'm writing this rant in particular.

If you don't complain to the people heading your local cafeteria how can you ever expect them to get their s&!t together and provide you with a service that's actually in line with what you're paying for? The point I'm trying to make is: "complain". Seriously though, if people actually complained about the crapy service they received in most places, those places would have a much better service to offer. Reason being; if you're willing to take the time to complain to them, what's to stop you from complaining to some authority that actually has some degree of power over them?