Brooklyn student Leslie Gomez Rivera used to avoid the Midwood High School cafeteria at all costs, spending her lunchtime in classrooms or the library and sometimes going the whole day without eati… ...

America’s 50 million public school students are now back in the classroom, but a food fight raged all summer over the practicality of new standards for healthier fare in the cafeteria.

A new program lets students customize their meals, participate in taste tests and brainstorm ways to redesign their school cafeterias. By Anahad O’Connor On a recent Tuesday, the cafeteria at ...

"I put it in the 'commingled' one," the 5-year-old said, referring to one of the recycling bins set up in her school cafeteria. Remi is one of about 700 Ridgeway Elementary School students who ...

Not only does this form of lunch-room economic sorting risk embarrassing kids from low-income families; it also leads to mortifying cases of “lunch shaming,” where kids with past-due cafeteria ...

A recent Associated Press review of school nutrition studies found that classes on healthy foods and menu changes in the lunchroom have had little effect in altering generally bad eating habits of ...

Daniel Neman writes: You can't scare me. I grew up eating pizzaburgers in the high school lunchroom.

Former NFL lineman Jared Veldheer is the kitchen director at St. Paul the Apostle School in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he manages lunch for 300 kids every day.

The school served up a brand new cafeteria. "I started screaming because it was last year and I remember it being just like the coolest thing ever, because I've never seen like a lunchroom that ...