‘Chef consultant’ hired to improve cafeteria cuisine at Los Gatos, Saratoga high schools
Forget frozen pizza, chicken tenders and mozzarella sticks — Los Gatos High School students are eating chicken burrito bowls, pulled pork sandwiches, and Vietnamese bahn mi bowls for lunch.
“Stereotypes on cafeteria food is [it’s] really not good, but everything I’ve had here is so good,” said senior Sophia Orgers, who helps with kitchen prep in her culinary class. “And knowing that it’s made during that day, not frozen and reheated, it’s just awesome.” Boundas said everything down to the dough is made from scratch to keep costs low and processed foods out of the kitchen. That required training kitchen staff and hiring a few new employees, including Joe Fernandez, former head chef at Original Joe’s in San Jose.
Assistant principal Kristina Grasty said she’d been working to upgrade the student dining experience at Los Gatos High since 2017, and had a chance meeting with Boundas at a restaurant during a vacation to New Orleans. Grasty worked with the Wildcat Foundation, the Home and School Club and Committee Against Substance Abuse to raise more than $100,000 for the contract, which started in the 2019-20 school year, and for upgrades to the school’s kitchen.
The legislation required Boundas to work within new guidelines and restrictions to bring the fresh-made food to students. But he said the new mandate makes food like what they’re serving in Los Gatos achievable for all schools in the state.
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