Nate Eaton agreed to be a school cafeteria lunch worker for a day. Here's what I learned.

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Have you ever wondered what it takes to feed hundreds of children every day? It's a question I had so I decided to spend some time in the lunchroom!
Jodi Prestwich is the Fox Hollow Elementary Kitchen Manager and she's responsible for making sure the kids at her school - and at Hawthorne Elementary - are fed breakfast and lunch every day during the school year.
As I learned, it takes a team to keep everything straight and make it all happen! Check out my experience as a lunch worker in the video player above.
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  • @kimbibbs5700
    @kimbibbs57009 ай бұрын

    I worked in an Elementary School Cafeteria in California when my kids were in school. It was perfect, got me out of the house, I earned some money and when my kids were home so was I. I LOVED IT!! I adored the children! I hate it that so many people look down on the lunch Ladies, it’s hard work !!!

  • @divadaedalus

    @divadaedalus

    9 ай бұрын

    It’s hard work. I substitute teach now that I am retired and all of the cafeteria workers I have met greet the children by name within the first weeks of school, move the lines smoothly and then wash all those trays. Amazing, kind dedicated folk. Oh, and they keep iced tea and treats for teachers.

  • @stephaniehowe0973

    @stephaniehowe0973

    9 ай бұрын

    I absolutely agree. I worked for our school districts traveling summer program. Bringing coolers full of meals to different sites. A gentleman tried to let me go 1st in line & I wouldn't. The cashier said NO she's ok she is the lunch lady & I was proud

  • @robinpayton564

    @robinpayton564

    9 ай бұрын

    I am a lunch lady at my first shift job at a middle school. When I get off work at 2 or 2:30 I drive a couple blocks to my 2nd job. I am a custodian at an elementary school. I love both jobs. It's hard work but I love being around the children! They make my day! ❤🎉😊

  • @bobabooey285

    @bobabooey285

    8 ай бұрын

    Our kids love the lunch ladies

  • @dianajackman7213
    @dianajackman72139 ай бұрын

    My husband has taught 6th grade for 42 years. The highlight of his week is serving the kids lunch on Fridays. ❤

  • @David_Cri
    @David_Cri9 ай бұрын

    Never thought we'd see Nate as a dinner lady as we call such workers in the UK. 🙂

  • @christinawelsh3417

    @christinawelsh3417

    9 ай бұрын

    It's so cool how everyone follows Nate now from all over the world! I'm from a different state away from Idaho,......Ohio! I love the UK.... ❤ It's awesome

  • @M4nvrs

    @M4nvrs

    9 ай бұрын

    @@christinawelsh3417 I'm also in the UK, and the last few years I have watched the Christmas segments every year. I so enjoy them!

  • @maddieadams75
    @maddieadams759 ай бұрын

    Good job Nate. Thanks to all people who watch out for our children 🙏❤️

  • @freemandebbiel
    @freemandebbiel9 ай бұрын

    As a former cafeteria worker! Kudos to you Nate! Those ladies get up real early to cook & care for kiddos and it’s one of the lowest paying jobs! You can make more at a fast food place. I find that so sad!

  • @SledDog5678

    @SledDog5678

    9 ай бұрын

    As a kid I worked in the school cafeteria (kids worked serving at the window). It was an elective class. You worked both lunches and ate your own lunch between the two lunch periods. I loved it. We got .50¢ free food each day and though be got paid, I forgot how much. It was below minimum wage of that time. I saved it all and bought my first ten speed....back then, that equaled freedom. Fun times. ...and it was the best to be able pick your own food.....YUMMY. They had great food back then....all made fresh from scratch in the cafeteria!!!!

  • @bettysmith4641
    @bettysmith46419 ай бұрын

    My daughter works in a school cafeteria and she loves it

  • @kellycuneo5123
    @kellycuneo51239 ай бұрын

    Nate that was Awesome to watch you did a good job . Also I give a lot of credit to the lunch 🍝🥗🍱people for feeding are kids good meals. Thank you. 👍

  • @pixiedustgirl13
    @pixiedustgirl139 ай бұрын

    I read the kitchen reviews (cleanliness, safety, etc) of the restaurants, school cafeterias, airport restaurants, etc, in my part of the county. They list every infraction, big and small. After they list those, they list which places got perfect scores. ALL of the schools make the perfect-score list. Those employees work very hard! (And it's scary to read the unsanitary conditions in some of our local eateries!)

  • @bluejedi723
    @bluejedi7239 ай бұрын

    when I was in college I served lunch to kids at an area high school. It was the perfect hours that fit my needs at the time. Loved it, and miss those days.

  • @semigoth299
    @semigoth2999 ай бұрын

    I always love the lunch ladies at my elementary school and later HS they were so sweet and humble I knew them by their names and back then we had really good food.

  • @gailjames6489
    @gailjames64898 ай бұрын

    I work in the kitchen in Highline School District almost for 7 years and totally love it.😂😅

  • @leahyamazaki5241
    @leahyamazaki52419 ай бұрын

    Tough work Nate :)) the kids make it all worth it

  • @marknyeste3604
    @marknyeste36048 ай бұрын

    That school is blessed to have that dedicated young lady!

  • @kristiphillips7783
    @kristiphillips77839 ай бұрын

    I absolutely know what it takes!! I have been a "lunch lady" for 12 years now in the Cincinnati, OH area and I LOVE it!! You did great Nate as did the ladies!! We have to feed those babies!! Sometimes that meal and your smile are the only ones they see that day!! Bless all my fellow lunch ladies and men!!

  • @christinawelsh3417

    @christinawelsh3417

    9 ай бұрын

    What school? I'm from Cincinnati too! Thank you for all your hard work feeding our young children!!!!!

  • @kristiphillips7783

    @kristiphillips7783

    9 ай бұрын

    @@christinawelsh3417 Hi and Thank you!! I am actually in one of the suburbs now. Lived in Clifton for 10 years and now in the Milford/Loveland area. Right on the line. I work for Milford schools. I live about 15ish minutes from Kings Island.

  • @crismalichi
    @crismalichi8 ай бұрын

    As a lunch lady myself it's one of the most rewarding job you can do!!! Love all my babies

  • @kristicurtis9740
    @kristicurtis97409 ай бұрын

    Wow!2 selections? That's cool. I don't remember having a choice. Lunch ladies are awesome!!!

  • @helenjohnson7583
    @helenjohnson75839 ай бұрын

    Okay Nate… “Accuracy before speed!”

  • @staycool163
    @staycool1639 ай бұрын

    I like how you told Jared, "go eat now" 😂 You did great Nate....and ladies! 👏👍

  • @debbirbodner5358
    @debbirbodner53589 ай бұрын

    I enjoyed this video, when I was in school every thing was fixed at school. You did a great job on preparation of food.👍👍

  • @lisamiller4943
    @lisamiller49439 ай бұрын

    In my day they made all the lunch by hand. No boxed or frozen stuff!

  • @kannyplay9831

    @kannyplay9831

    9 ай бұрын

    I remember the cinnamon rolls they made

  • @bettyir4302

    @bettyir4302

    9 ай бұрын

    Oh my, the aroma of homemade yeast rolls drifting through the hallway in the class period before lunch! They had government peanut butter in some form every day - pb cookie, pb on apples, pb and hone in a dixie cup with a slice of bread or those yeast rolls, pb with veg sticks. No mystery meats but whole pieces of chicken. No one brought a sack lunch and no one went from the line to the trash can like kids do today.

  • @christinawelsh3417

    @christinawelsh3417

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@bettyir4302I ABSOLUTELY agree. Taking nothing from these hard working ladies & Nate because they don't set the menus! Back then we had real food that got us through the day! ❤ I remember eating every bit. My mother helped in the cafeteria too. All the food was delicious and cooked from scratch! We would race to eat! Now my kids come home starving because they served nasty food!!! It's true! What options for vegetarian kids I wonder? I was vegetarian by choice at 12.... I was terrified of chemicals put in meat back then. Now it's really not even meat! It's grown from stem cells sadly.... 😢

  • @lindamadison8177
    @lindamadison81779 ай бұрын

    Nate what a great job u did. Thank u for showing this. God bless 😊

  • @critterscute3642
    @critterscute36429 ай бұрын

    My son’s smaller size school cooked nothing. A caterer was used. I loved being a lunch lady. The kids were great (elementary school). Great job Nate!

  • @slk1352
    @slk13529 ай бұрын

    Nate the Great 😊

  • @judydoyle1124
    @judydoyle11249 ай бұрын

    Not aure exactly why i am sitting here in upstate NY watching lunches being served in Idaho, but I am. Some things are universal!

  • @laurabell48
    @laurabell489 ай бұрын

    Nate Eaton, you are my hero, you are just an awesome, fantastic person!

  • @sandywilde4247
    @sandywilde42479 ай бұрын

    I’m a cafe worker in Illinois in a middle school!! Fun job and rewarding, I love it!!

  • @deronhanson5454
    @deronhanson54549 ай бұрын

    Can say I learned from an early age-my mother worked in the school cafeteria for a couple of years

  • @susanstancliff2937
    @susanstancliff29379 ай бұрын

    What a great idea! I never realized all the work that went into serving and making all these lunches! Thanks!

  • @karenmilligan5597
    @karenmilligan55979 ай бұрын

    Good job Nate.👍🏻 Shout out to all the cool Lunch Ladies ❣️

  • @southernsass2937
    @southernsass29379 ай бұрын

    Nate this was Awesome to watch. Thanks for sharing with us!

  • @loveforeignaccents
    @loveforeignaccents9 ай бұрын

    Hahaha, I enjoyed that! Great job, Nate; and loved your helpful "co-workers", too!

  • @nataliecassidy4298
    @nataliecassidy42989 ай бұрын

    That was a great job NATE! Your highered!❤😊from AKRON, OHIO

  • @faykouri1162
    @faykouri11629 ай бұрын

    Kudos to you and the ladies Nate, a job well done!

  • @user-wd1pf4rf5v
    @user-wd1pf4rf5v9 ай бұрын

    ❤ Nate to cute. Thank you Always Donna Barnes ❤

  • @nada7.077
    @nada7.0779 ай бұрын

    Kudos Nate! You did a great job! I’d hire you as a lunch worker any day!!

  • @Cooking_Through_Time
    @Cooking_Through_Time9 ай бұрын

    This brings back memories. When I was in 7th and 8th grade if our study hall period was at time the lunch was being served, we could be servers in the lunch room. It was so much fun. I'm convinced I gained all my weight eating the French fries....lol. This was in like 1973 and '74. Don't think students are allowed to do that these days.

  • @truthspeaker711
    @truthspeaker7119 ай бұрын

    Something so simple but so important. Especially if they don't get food at home. That may be these kids only source of food all day. ❤ YOU NATE!

  • @divadaedalus

    @divadaedalus

    9 ай бұрын

    Sad but true.

  • @kaffir76
    @kaffir764 ай бұрын

    1:35 a lot of paper towels used 😂😂

  • @Griffinand3
    @Griffinand39 ай бұрын

    Hard work but you all did a great job!

  • @homeworshipwithmartyandamy7754
    @homeworshipwithmartyandamy77549 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing some of what these very unappreciated ladies do for all our kids!

  • @JohnJenkins-ib5wh
    @JohnJenkins-ib5wh9 ай бұрын

    😂😂 Good Fun😂😂

  • @kickinkaren478
    @kickinkaren4789 ай бұрын

    You are a good sport.

  • @gimmeagorilla
    @gimmeagorilla9 ай бұрын

    Wow! So organized! I’m usually in the classroom so I don’t get to see all of this! What a fun segment!

  • @deborahanne2700
    @deborahanne27009 ай бұрын

    Nate ❤⭐️🍔🌮

  • @lalaboo251
    @lalaboo2519 ай бұрын

    Excellent job! Did they feed Nate and camera man too? 🌞

  • @strahovsky1
    @strahovsky19 ай бұрын

    Wow...seriously...that's school lunch in the greatest country in the world????? omg....

  • @debrahaney879
    @debrahaney8799 ай бұрын

    I was going to try working at our school cafeteria and they said I had to pay 50 dollars to apply. Stupid .

  • @LizaFergison
    @LizaFergison9 ай бұрын

    That lunch was so unhealthy. If my daughter's school had served those dishes, I would be mad. It must be a U.S. thing.

  • @eurofritz4617
    @eurofritz46178 ай бұрын

    why are they the only one with hair nets?

  • @Mammaj1963
    @Mammaj19639 ай бұрын

    Where’s the cheese for the burgers ?

  • @MarinePigVa
    @MarinePigVa9 ай бұрын

    So we are giving elementary students completely processed foods?

  • @judithcadillo9438
    @judithcadillo94382 ай бұрын

    ,😉😉😉

  • @cornsdoggs44
    @cornsdoggs449 ай бұрын

    😆😆👽

  • @carolbamforth7475
    @carolbamforth74759 ай бұрын

    Typical to not halve nutritional value in food for schools. Just something in their stomachs….. oh and cheap too

  • @ogoj2
    @ogoj24 ай бұрын

    Dude your burger assembly is a mess

  • @PatHand-og9yd
    @PatHand-og9yd9 ай бұрын

    Looks good, but have they heard of nutrition? Kids need more than wheat, cheese and meat!

  • @kaffir76
    @kaffir764 ай бұрын

    5:00 so much talking & spit everywhere, where is the face mask? 😢😢

  • @judedimatteo8942
    @judedimatteo89429 ай бұрын

    He does not look happy it's all a big phony smile

  • @loveforeignaccents

    @loveforeignaccents

    9 ай бұрын

    What a strange comment.

  • @semigoth299
    @semigoth2999 ай бұрын

    I always love the lunch ladies at my elementary school and later HS they were so sweet and humble I knew them by their names and back then we had really good food.