By Copy Editor, Anayis Barzegar

            Hot chocolate: $1.00, Corn dog: $2.00, Burrito: $2.50.
            Knowing that students are not being ripped off by their school: priceless.
            After fifteen years of maintaining the same prices, the Glendale Unified School District has raised the prices of most foods including Domino’s pizza, tacos, rice bowls, and the salad bar.
            Most prices have been increased by a quarter, from $1.75 to $2.00. Spicy chicken patties, previously priced at $1.25, are now sold for $2.00. Muffins and cookies went from seventy-five cents to a $1.00, while churros doubled in price from fifty cents to $1.00. 
            Karineh Krikourian (’08) feels as though the increase is “unfair to people” as it may give them a “hard time, financially.” She strongly believes that such a measure would force students to think twice before spending money on school food.   
            The price increase is mainly due to the fact that all distributors, including Food Services, must “watch obesity” and purchase healthier, more expensive foods because the state requires schools to provide food that contains, at most, thirty percent fat.
            “While helping to reverse unhealthy habits, this enactment will also inevitably mark up the prices of school food,” Esquivel said in an interview last semester.
            Vending machines prices, while unchanged, have reduced the amount of each of their products. For example, the size of PowerAde has decreased from 20 to 12 ounces.