- affordable
- healthy options (whole grains, fruit and vegetables, no animal products-all organic)
- vegetarian friendly
- nutritious grains and legumes
Hunan Wok
lemon chicken and pork chow mein
- affordable price
- culturally diverse
- profitable
- most popular among students
- flavorful choices on menu
- established restaurant for over 30 years
Veggie Vittles
Veggie Sandwich
Driving Question
Borscht Place
How can we, as the student council, choose five restaurants for the food court that will meet the needs of our diverse student body and make enough money to pay for all student activities for the school year?
Beets, Cabbage, and Vinegar Soup
Consumer Science Kitchen
Roastery
Meat, potato, and veggie plate
chicken and veggies
- affordable
- culturally diverse
- healthy options
- supports Mrs. Stravinsky, a major funder for the school
- won the Cleveland Founders Day Cook Off three years in a row
- money benefits Consumer Sciences Program
- low prices
- considerable profit
- benefits students with low income families
- nutritionally balanced meals
- meets the needs of the diverse student body
- school gets 100% of the profit
- quality food
- healthy
- appetizing food with a better profit margin and popularity than competing restaurants in the same price range
Selected Restaurants
Consumer Science Kitchen, Veggie Vittles, Roastery, Hunan Wok, Borscht Palace
Taco Villa
Fleur-de-Lys
Beef Tacos
Crab Crepes
Pasta Place
Spaghetti with Meat Sauce
Sally's Soups and Salads
Unselected Restaurants:
- allergy precautions
- negative profits
- does not benefit low income students
- seafood safety hazard
- crowded food area
- seasonal
- unhealthy (fat filled tacos)
- not vegetarian friendly
- low quality food
- limits number of healthy restaurant choices for the students
- not filling
- unsanitary and messy salad bar
- requires more workers to refill the salad bar constantly
- not as popular with student body
- low profit margin
- high in carbohydrates and fat
- not fresh ingredients
- gives students a bad outlook on how to eat healthy
- food choices make students fatigued and sleepy
- messy to consume
Taco Villa, Wildcat's Den, Fleur-de-Lys, Bubba's Steak House, Sally's, Bennie's, Pasta Place
Bubba's Steak House
The Wildcat's Den
Meat and Cheese Submarine Sandwiches
- no profit
- not culturally diverse
- long cooking time
- not as popular with high school students
- menu prices expensive
- religious conflicts
- unhealthy food options
- not culturally diverse
- student council will not gain any money from this restaurant
- unexperienced workers
- no vegetarian options
- not established
- limited variety
- students could lose valuable study time while working
- not quality food
- unhealthy
- not vegetarian friendly
- requires more cleanup
- high sodium
- informal setting
Thank you for your time!
The Borscht Palace and The Roastery had a profit of $0, but were chosen because they benefit the school in other ways that we felt were important.
Oak Grove City High School
Food Court Presentation
By: Samiha Elkhayyat, Paige McKinney, Anna Jenkins, Andrea Whaley