School canteen meal prices up 100%

A number of parents have complained about the high prices of sandwiches and meals sold by some canteens in boys’ and girls’ schools and about the low-quality of food offered to students. The prices of some meals have doubled, especially in private school canteens, Al-Watan daily reported. Parents have voiced concerns over the way some canteens store food and said the canteens store food in small rooms that are not cold enough and do not apply proper hygiene conditions. They said some meals are not covered well and exposed to air for a long time before they are sold to students. Most of the juices, chocolates and chips are of the lowest-quality in the market and are produced and manufactured by unknown companies. The parents said the canteens care only about making profits.

Al-Watan day by day thought about the costs of suppers in government funded schools' flasks and non-public schools' containers and saw a sharp increment in the costs of the last mentioned. At a tuition based school's bottle, a sandwich can cost 3-4 riyals while it costs less in state funded schools. 

Numerous guardians sent messages to the Ministry of Education's twitter account calling upon the service investigates and screens the suppers offered by school bottles. The guardians proposed that containers offer new vegetables and leafy foods squeezes and sandwiches rather than chips, bread rolls, desserts and croissants which don't have any great nutritious esteem. 

A few guardians proposed that a sustenance organization ought to be set up with commitment from understudies and instructors while others opined that profitable families ought to be allowed to run containers and offer dinners at moderate costs. 

Riyadh Educational Administration repeated its insight to screen containers in private and state funded schools and take important measures against violators of nourishment cleanliness hones. The organization called upon flasks to give solid suppers and sans gluten dinners for understudies who have hypersensitivities and give items at sensible costs like the ones in the market.