Cafeteria Food

This is a picture of the cafeteria in Merritt College. I talked to an employee at the counter (who isn't pictured here), who said that the menu and schedule were a bit different for the summer, because there are less students around. The cafeteria is open 7:30am-3:30pm, Monday to Thursdays. On Fridays, nothing is open due to budget cuts. The basic foods sold here are sandwiches, salads, hamburgers, and fries, along with a large selection of snacks such as chips, soda, cookies, candy, fruits, and even Kimchi noodle bowls of ramen and spam musubi. He said that if one wanted to eat a healthier meal, the salad was the best bet, but one could also choose the turkey burger which had no fat, veggies sandwiches, or the Gardenburger that I think has a veggie patty. He didn't give me a straight-forward response when I asked him what he thought was the unhealthiest food on the menu.
This cafeteria is probably similar to cafeterias anywhere else. It contains a wide selection of food, whether healthy or not, and is a frequent stopping point for students and workers on campus. It is convenient and available. However, I wonder how nourishing this food can be if one were to depend on the cafeteria for meals everyday. What are the foods made of, such as the veggie patty and fat free turkey meat? What about the packaged and processed chips, cookies, candies, and sodas that were readily available? It may be easy for people to just buy cafeteria food out of convenience because they don't have time to make lunch everyday and consume it, but not even think twice about what is entering their bodies, causing over-consumption. This reminds me of how Bodley describes over-consumption malnutrition as a "change from diets rich in complex carbohydrates, whole grains, and vegetables to diets based on fats and simple carbohydrates, or sugars" (p148). A cafeteria is probably meant to quickly feed many people at once, but I feel like it has become such a process that one may not even consider the lack of nutrition or quality of the food they are eating.