chef, named one of the top 100 influential people in the world...

[butters]

...wants to hire the dinner lady who got sacked for theft after allowing a child to eat lunch and not paying till the next day.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/18/us/chef-jose-andres-lunchroom-employee-trnd/

His nonprofit, World Central Kitchen, has provided millions of hot meals to people struck by disaster across the world, including survivors of Hurricane Florence, first responders in the California wildfires, volcano victims in Guatemala, migrants in Tijuana and millions of Puerto Ricans who were left with nothing after Hurricane Maria.
And during the shutdown, the chef and his army of volunteers tackled the Washington crisis by offering free sandwiches at any of his restaurants for all federal government employees.

 

[Lorilei]

He is quickly becoming one of my favorite people in the world.

 

[butters]

he's amazing

 

[ryan8558]

$8 for a school lunch? what did he have?

 

[butters]

$8 for a school lunch? what did he have?

i believe that was what he owed (maybe with the day's meal)... no idea what he ate. children shouldn't be left to go hungry at lunchtime, whichever way you cut it. feed the child, take the bill up with the parents or make sure there's some proviso for these odd occasions. shit, kids are always losing their dinner money or forgetting to bring it. you feed the child - that should be a given. no shaming the child who has no money for whatever reason.

 

[beew]

My heart warms at the kindness expressed in this thread.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

...wants to hire the dinner lady who got sacked for theft after allowing a child to eat lunch and not paying till the next day.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/18/us/chef-jose-andres-lunchroom-employee-trnd/

He is quickly becoming one of my favorite people in the world.

Jose Andres. Stand-up person, all the way around.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Maybe the chef should be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize. He is certainly more deserving than some winners I have heard about.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Maybe the chef should be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize. He is certainly more deserving than some winners I have heard about.

Maybe! You never know, Boxey!

Who are these other lesser deserved winners (in your opinionated eyes) that you have heard about?

 

[beew]

Maybe the chef should be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize. He is certainly more deserving than some winners I have heard about.

I'm sorry to be Debbie Downer, but I tend to be skeptical of advertised kindness.

It is possible that he did it for the right reasons - being inspired by such an outstanding person
but he could have done it for publicity too.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

I read a story a couple days ago that said that lunch lady wasn't the saint she made herself out to be. Said she had been giving away free stuff for a long time and never charging anyone. Like extras and stuff not just a lunch to a hungry kid.
I'd look for it but I'm lazy.

 

[oralaccents]

i believe that was what he owed (maybe with the day's meal)... no idea what he ate. children shouldn't be left to go hungry at lunchtime, whichever way you cut it. feed the child, take the bill up with the parents or make sure there's some proviso for these odd occasions. shit, kids are always losing their dinner money or forgetting to bring it. you feed the child - that should be a given. no shaming the child who has no money for whatever reason.

How are your kids doing? You never mention them.

 

[Aglaopheme]

...wants to hire the dinner lady who got sacked for theft after allowing a child to eat lunch and not paying till the next day.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/18/us/chef-jose-andres-lunchroom-employee-trnd/

The world needs more good people doing good deeds.

 

[oralaccents]

The world needs more good people doing good deeds.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn.monasteryicons.com/images/large/st-luke-icon-747.jpg

Patron Saint of Butchers.

 

[Ann_Tagonist]

I used to forget my lunch money all the time in grade school. I think it was 35¢. I thought school lunches were free if you couldn't afford it under the NSLP. How is it stealing if the government offers it for free? Was it a white kid?

 

[butters]

I'm sorry to be Debbie Downer, but I tend to be skeptical of advertised kindness.

It is possible that he did it for the right reasons - being inspired by such an outstanding person
but he could have done it for publicity too.

did you read the article?

this man hardly needs the publicity. it was a decent act by a decent person after seeing a shitty action by another company.

ThinkFoodGroup is the company behind Andrés' hotels, products, initiatives and restaurants that span from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles, Vegas, Miami, as well as Puerto Rico and Mexico City.

not everyone needs publicity 24/7 like trump

 

[Comshaw]

Jose Andres. Stand-up person, all the way around.

I would add: Bonnie Kimball a standup person all the way around.

...School officials and the food service company have offered to rehire the employee, but Kimball said she won't take their offer, saying "they're not doing it for me, they are doing it to save face."...

In other words, "Take this job and shove it. I'm not helping you save face for a fuck up like that." WhoooWaaa!

Comshaw

 

[butters]

i'd have to re-find the article but, apparently, it's not uncommon in some schools for the food a student selects (but then is refused due to a few dollars outstanding) to be tossed in the bin rather than returned to the shelves.

so not only is a child being refused food, food is wasted for no good reason whatsoever. better to let the child eat food they don't have quite enough to pay for than to discard the food so no one can eat it or pay for it. where the hell do these policies come from?

 

[Lorilei]

i'd have to re-find the article but, apparently, it's not uncommon in some schools for the food a student selects (but then is refused due to a few dollars outstanding) to be tossed in the bin rather than returned to the shelves.

so not only is a child being refused food, food is wasted for no good reason whatsoever. better to let the child eat food they don't have quite enough to pay for than to discard the food so no one can eat it or pay for it. where the hell do these policies come from?

Republicans. They get off on cruelty.

 

[butters]

Republicans. They get off on cruelty.

*sighs*

every school should have some sort of slush-fund designated exactly for these kinds of things. it was the food-providing company that actually fired her, i believe, but the school was behind reporting her to it.

just another example of how some people care more for a yet-to-be-formed baby than the wellbeing of a hungry, living child.

 

[beew]

Apparently the boy's parents are pissed off by the way in which they came across in the media.

They said that their children are well fed. Just that the boy, being 17 is expected to pack his own lunch for school.

 

[butters]

no surprises

She'd worked at Mascoma Valley Regional High School in New Hampshire for more than four years and is aware of the children's circumstances. "We know these kids," Kimball said. But the food vendor—Kimball's employer—was at the school monitoring operations that day; the contract was up for renewal. The student paid his bill the next day, but Kimball was fired that afternoon anyway. The letter she was given accused her of theft.

Kimball said her direct manager had told her to handle the situation exactly the way she handled it; the manager didn't want any issues while the contract was up. “We weren’t supposed to pull trays,” she said. The school board chairman wouldn't discuss the case but said: "The policy is that the student be fed. There’s no refusal"—though it might be the case that the student is supposed to be given the lunch of the day, not a la carte items. Two of Kimball's colleagues quit in protest. And the school board voted to renew the vendor's contract for another year, at $560,000.

 

[Ann_Tagonist]

Republicans. They get off on cruelty.

Liberals. They believe feeling bad about something actually fixes it.

 

[beew]

Liberals. They believe feeling bad about something actually fixes it.

"Hungry children" in the US or England lol.

They should go to Africa or the slums in India, if they want their fee fees engaged.

 

[butters]

"Hungry children" in the US or England lol.

They should go to Africa or the slums in India, if they want their fee fees engaged.

there are hungry children all around the globe. are you telling me i should feel nothing when i hear stories about abused children, or only when they come from third-world countries?