What do you do for food?

[Halon]

Team 662 works in an empty store in our local mall, so the problem is pretty much solved for us.
We also have a snack team that runs to the K-Mart in the mall to get sodas and snacks that we sell to the team for a quarter each(enough to break even to get more snacks).

[Tigerlily-87]

Our team's robot room got moved to the former Food Lab at the high school.
We don't have food problems.
*evil laugh*

[Li Jianliang]

I think my team's getting a bunch of $1, $5 coupons for local restaurants. That'd cut down the costs a lot during the build time, but I think the local restaurants (McDonalds, Burger King, Arby's, etc.) are going to end up fattening half of the team if everyone decides to have that diet.
For now there are parents bringing homemade dinner every night. And a fridge full of soda that's being constantly restocked.

[russell]

I just weighed myself and I have gained two pounds since last Saturday. Thats a sign of a good robotics team.

[Tsom467]

Part of our team expectations is that the parents of each team member must provide a meal for the team. We have one wonderful parent that organizes the whole schedule for the build time. Our "short" days - Tues, Thurs 5:30 - 9, and Sun 12:30 - 6 don't require food. The long days - Mon, Wed, Fri - 2:30 - 9 and Sat. 12:30 - 9 we need dinner. The parents are fantastic - so far this year we've had chicken fingers & fries, Chili, turkey dinner (w/ potato and veggie). Last year I even brought in my barbeque grill and we had burgers and hot dogs. We eat well! The school's food lab is across the hall from our build area, and the school is gracious enough to let us use the space to eat and store some of our food items like paper products. We use the dinner time as a team bonding time, rookie members sit with returning members and get to know each other. We also use the time for team meetings.

[Mr. Van]

A suggestion for those who might meet right after school on your school site: Ask if the cooking/catering class might want to help out. Ours delivers food for the team on the three weekdays we meet.

-Mr. Van
Coach, 599