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Students pick what and how much they eat.
“Oranges and apples. I like everything here, except for the pudding and cheese,” First Grader Zoriana Ilchyshyna said.
This hasn’t always been the case.
“The food used to be not very tasty. Now we can choose, it’s tastier. We can choose ourselves, it makes us happy,” First Grader Alisa Novozhylova said.
The children are happy and so are their parents.
“For our first-grader, it’s more interesting. Because when there was only one meal, he sometimes used to say that he didn’t like certain foods, and probably stayed hungry until lunch,” Natalia Ostapenko, a mother of a first grader said.
A meal at this canteen costs an equivalent of $.60 and is funded from the local budget. The varied menu presents something for everyone. As a result, many children leave little to nothing on their plates.
“We have a bonus system. When a child brings us a clean plate, when they eat everything, they receive something sweet, like candy, a little present,” Director of the Shkilne Municipal Enterprise in the Pechersk District Alla Podhorna said.
As of Sep. 2019, all primary schools in the Pechersk district of Kyiv will adopt the menu-based school meal system.
