Once Hackley students make it to senior year, they gain their highly anticipated senior privileges. Their privileges include going off campus during lunch and free periods.

Senior Ale Soto loves to go off campus for food, not just for lunch, but for snacks and breakfast, too. Since Ale plays for Varsity Lacrosse, he mainly goes off-campus when the food isn’t game-day friendly.

“If the food is spicy or if we have tandoori chicken or even buffalo mac and cheese, I’ll have to go off campus and get a chiller meal for game days. But, you know, I also like to go off and get different kinds of food too, ” Ale said.

Varsity athletes can have up to three games a week, although the Flik staff may not be familiar with the sports schedule.

“I think if Flik knew that Monday, Wednesday, and Friday were game days, they could plan lighter meals,” Ale said.

Senior Wyatt Belville is also known for going off campus every day for lunch.

“I like food at different places because it gives me some variety, and I feel like I got sick of the Hackley lunch after my first two years here. It’s the same stuff every week, and I don’t really like it that much,” Wyatt said.

Although Wyatt often goes off-campus, he has no problem getting back to school on time.

“I’m not really late to school after I go off-campus for lunch. I just plan where I’m gonna go depending on how much time I have. For example, if I only have lunch free, I’ll go somewhere closer like Chipotle. If I have more free time, I’ll go to a further place like Bobo’s,” said Wyatt.

Many students feel that if the lunch were improved, there was more variety, or their favorites were served more often, they would be more willing to eat it every day.

“I wish we had more variety and more times with orange chicken and buffalo mac and cheese,” Wyatt said.

Senior Zion Bennett loves to go off campus for lunch. She especially loves leaving for her daily coffees at Hackley students’ favorite place, Coffee Labs.

“I sometimes go off [campus] more than once a day because I need my coffee in the morning and a refresher in the afternoon, and sometimes I just want a sidequest, ” Zion said.

The lunches that are most frequently served involve some type of chicken, which students often don’t feel comfortable eating.

“I don’t really trust the chicken at Hackley, so if they made it better, I would be more inclined to eat it. The chicken is never the right texture, so I mainly go off campus to avoid lunches like that,” Zion said.

In order to increase the number of seniors eating the school lunch, the quality of the food, the variety of lunches, and the types of meals (spicy or heavy) should be enhanced. If the seniors would like these adjustments to be made, they should submit the annual form that Flik sends.