by Rafael Escobedo

St. John Bosco High School’s new lunch service has been the talk around campus among the student body.

Bosco has featured many lunch services throughout the years. However, this new service has been met with many positive reviews. Boca Cafe, the Bellflower-based catering company tasked with providing lunch to the Braves this year, emphasizes the importance of variety on the menu. Their Bosco menu offers different items, such as pepperoni pizza, burgers, orange chicken bowls, boba and much more. 

School President Dr. Brian Wickstrom took the initiative and hired the new company to ensure that the Brave community is supplied with quality food.

He chose this new lunch staff due to the great experience that they have with not only the food business but customer service as well. The new company plans to do a better job at providing improved lunch for the students and improved service overall for the students here at Bosco.

If sales continue to grow, the company may possibly become more involved and invested at Bosco in the future.

The quality of the food is of extreme importance here at St. John Bosco, as it affects students mentally and physically throughout the school year. Students need food that is not only of high quality, but is also something that helps them to get the nutrients needed for them to excel.

“If it’s not good quality food, it drains them,” said Dr. Wickstrom

Although they are trying different items, their main goal is to keep the price low without sacrificing their quality.

“I think the food is exquisite and prices are very reasonable and affordable for the portion sizes you get,” said senior Patrick Canosa.

All of this wouldn’t be possible without the hard-working staff. One of the workers, Jack Weng, wants to make sure that the community here at Bosco are fed and happy with high quality food. Growing up Weng disliked the quality of school food, which led to him becoming involved in the food and customer service business. 

Although there is a limited menu currently, the lunch service is planning to expand their menu throughout the year as they are experimenting with new items. 

“We are trying out new Mexican food,” Weng said.

This new lunch service is a major step up from the previous years and is a major success so far. It shows, as the lines at lunch to get food are always long.

“The new lunch service is great. The variety of food on the menu is great. So many options and all of them taste really good. My favorite item here is the double beef burger,” said senior Anthony Martinez. 

Even faculty expressed satisfaction with the new lunch menu. 

“It’s better than when I was a student here,” said Mr. Juan Pedro Garcia-Esparza, Class of 2016.

The plan for new lunch service is to continue to serve here at Bosco for many years to come and to make sure students are happy with the lunch that is being served in both quality and quantity.