Cafeteria boycott has effective results
May 24, 2010 • Tony Valderrama
Filed under News
A large project in the Entrepreneurship class is “Market Week,” a week where students have the chance to make money by constructing their own business plan and selling their chosen product for a given week. Recently, several groups of students were kicked out because they were selling non-packaged food.
Many students where outraged by this, and, in order to make a statement against the cafeteria, senior Mark Naufel set up a boycott for all students to participate in by simply not buying any food from the cafeteria for the entire week of April 26–30.
“I knew a lot of people wouldn’t buy any food and, as a result, the cafeteria would lower production,” Naufel said.
The results were above and beyond expectations.
“It turned out being more effective than I had planned and, as a result of the boycott, they had to close down many of the food carts and lower production of much of the food,” Naufel said.
But how did the entrepreneurship students feel about the boycott?
“I liked that they did it because the lunch ladies were super sassy and they were jealous because we were stealing their customers,” senior and entrepreneurship student Josh Von Allworden said. “There were probably four or five groups that had to stop, and I understand that they were trying to be safe, but it was an important project.”
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