EditorialA cafeteria worker at Sinclair Lane Elementary School, prepares meals for students in Baltimore on April 14, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialGarry Ridge, right, who runs WD-40, with Jeff Lindeman from human resources, likes to remind employees about the usefulness of their work. (Ariana Drehsler/The New York Times)
EditorialA meal of curry chicken, potatoes and beans, from the cafeteria of the Main Media Center for the Winter Olympics in Beijing, Feb. 3, 2022. (Bedel Saget/The New York Times)
EditorialStudents relax in the cafeteria of the American University of Iraq in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, on Nov. 7, 2021, where 109 Afghan students are now studying. (Laura Boushnak/The New York Times)
EditorialStudents flip through last year’s yearbook while gathered around a cafeteria table at Smith Mountain Lake Christian Academy in Moneta, Va., on Oct. 6, 2021. (Veasey Conway/The New York Times)
EditorialA lunch line at Rising Hill Elementary in Kansas City, Mo. on Sept. 23, 2021, where the school district has had to make supply runs to Sam’s Club and Restaurant Depot stores because of shortages from food distributors. (Katie Currid/The New York Times)
EditorialPearl West, cafeteria manager at Gregorio Esparza Elementary School, stands for a portrait outside the school in San Antonio, Texas on Sept. 13, 2021. (Matthew Busch/The New York Times)
EditorialPearl West, cafeteria manager at Gregorio Esparza Elementary School, stands for a portrait outside the school in San Antonio, Texas on Sept. 13, 2021. (Matthew Busch/The New York Times)
EditorialStudents play basketball in the cafeteria, which sometimes doubles as a basketball court, at South Cameron High School where the gymnasium was destroyed by last year?s Hurricane Laura, in Grand Chenier, La., Aug. 26, 2021. (Bryan Tarnowski/The New York Times)
EditorialStudents play basketball in the cafeteria, which sometimes doubles as a basketball court, at South Cameron High School where the gymnasium was destroyed by last year?s Hurricane Laura, in Grand Chenier, La., Aug. 26, 2021. (Bryan Tarnowski/The New York Times)
EditorialSha’Corie Graham with her children, from left, Zion Graham, 8, Tre’Von Pinckney, 5, and Bryson Pinckney, 7, in the Hunter Elementary School cafeteria in Greensboro, N.C., July 19, 2021. (Cornell Watson/The New York Times)
EditorialThe employee cafeteria at Flying Food Group, an airline caterer at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, on March 19, 2021. (Meghan Marin/The New York Times)
EditorialStudents eat lunch in their classroom, instead of the cafeteria, at G.D. Jones Elementary in Wausau, Wis., Dec. 7, 2020. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times)
EditorialKaren Kent, a high school cafeteria worker who was laid off during the pandemic, at home in Pennington, N.J., Sept. 2, 2020. (Mark Makela/The New York Times)
EditorialThe entrance to the West Wing of White House in Washington, on Monday, June 22, 2020, as the White House began easing up on restrictions that have been in place since a stay-at-home order in the city began in March in response to the coronavirus. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)