Lunch lady

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Lunch lady is an American slang term for a woman who serves food in a school (or other institutional) cafeteria; the equivalent British English term is "dinner lady". Since the 1960s, lunch ladies have sometimes been caricatured as overweight, uncaring women with hairnets, rubber gloves, glasses and moles. Most lunch ladies are more highly paid than their counterparts in retail food service, because of the rigid federal requirements of food quality, sanitation, and record keeping to which school systems must adhere.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Lunch ladies in popular culture

Dinnerladies is a British sitcom about dinner ladies.
Lunchlady Doris is a lunch lady from The Simpsons.
Adam Sandler and Chris Farley from Saturday Night Live did a "Hoagies and Grinders" song and skit with Chris Farley dressed up as a stereotypical lunch lady.
The school lunch lady plays a key role in the plot of "Earshot", an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Rosa Petitjean is a fictional lunch lady of Kadic Junior High School in the French animated television series Code Lyoko.
Edna is the highly unhygienic lunch lady for Bullworth Academy in the video game Bully. She often coughs, sneezes, and blows cigarette smoke on any food she prepares, believing it "adds flavor." She also is unconcerned about the opinions of health inspectors.
The band The Darkness has a song named "Dinner Lady Arms" on their album One Way Ticket to Hell... And Back.
Ms. Sara Macgrady, the lunch lady for Lakewood Elementary School in the TV show Arthur.
Denise Martin, a contestant on Survivor: China.
Edna the lunch lady cartoon, served every Wednesday - bit on the strange side of humor.[(Internet Cartoon)|Lunch lady]