They might be happy talking to all their work-friends and enjoying the free cafeteria food.
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Students at U.S. schools use cards to pay for cafeteria food, borrow books, gain entrance to dormitories or access photocopiers, computers and washing machines.
In some instances, company perks (think Google's laid-back culture and famously endless supply of cafeteria food) can make up for a two- or three-grand salary difference.
Norris Cole said he and his close-knit family want to effect positive change, helping continue the discussion about issues like unhealthy cafeteria food for students and childhood obesity.
Kevin Morgan, a professor at Cardiff University and the author of The School Food Revolution, a book about the supply chain behind cafeteria food, said the supply network was complex and should be better regulated.
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And in the free-for-all, cafeteria food fight that is the stock market, how can you possibly get an edge against all those well-connected hedge funds, large institutions and the investment banks trading their own books of business?
"Schools understand that students want to leave their mark on the way out the door, but a better way to do that is to take up a donation and plant an oak tree, " said Mark Goulet, a lawyer for the school board in Smithville, Texas, where students last month were suspended after a cafeteria food fight involving burritos.
Cooks in fast-food restaurants, cafeteria workers, fast-food servers and waiters are four of the lowest-salaried jobs in the country.
And it is easier to lobby for the cafeteria to serve healthier food if everyone complains.
Many parents of middle-school or high-school students notice that their kids' cafeteria operates much like a food court.
And so working with university presidents to try to figure out, where can you cut costs -- of course, it may mean that the food in the cafeteria is a little worse and the gym is not as fancy.
The food court became a cafeteria, which maybe some of you thought was an improvement. (Laughter.) And, yes, the arrangements might have been a little noisy and a little improvised, but you hunkered down.
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Putting a gym in a major office center, monitoring the food served in the cafeteria, and building organized participation in community-based fitness programs such as the Fit- Friendly Campaign by AHA are not expensive or difficult to implement.
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"It is worse than in-flight food, or at a cheap college cafeteria, " exclaimed her boyfriend.
In response, the company decided to make its once-dingy cafeteria more inviting, improving the lighting and offering better food, to encourage workers to lunch together, instead of at their desks.
The Primero Food Service Solution developed by Cybersoft Technologies sets-up pre-paid cafeteria accounts which allow parents to go online and track exactly what their little snoogans are eating.
The Connecticut House last week passed a ban on junk food in schools, and in Kentucky, a new law will limit Pizza Hut in the cafeteria to just one day a week.
Five cents of debt was enough for cafeteria employees at the Coehlo Middle School to instruct kids at least one day this week to dump out the food they would have normally eaten, CNN affiliate WJAR in Rhode Island reported.
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