School Lunch Hero Day 2024 Celebration Ideas [Video]

The school cafeteria and its staff are about more than just lunches—they’re about connection, community, and school culture. Cafeteria staff make sure each student gets fed, manage the federal lunch program (which is a task!), make sure students with allergies have appropriate food choices, help feed students during the summer, and may even take up gardening and teaching students about healthy food. As the saying goes, not all heroes wear capes (some wear aprons!). Take a day to celebrate school cafeteria staff on School Lunch Hero Day 2024.

It’s a day to celebrate everyone in the cafeteria, the staff who prep food and keep the lunch line moving. Many students may not realize how much school cafeteria workers do in a day, so this is a chance to give them a behind-the-scenes appreciation of this school department.

May 3, 2024, is School Lunch Hero Day. It was started in 2013in collaboration between the …