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Students like to eat. Whether a student is well fed can affect their academic performance.

At Burlington Schools, students have the opportunity to eat and enjoy two meals a day thanks to the awesome cafeteria staff.

New this year is Rhonda Pinkston as the head cook. Rhonda says that she has enjoyed cooking for almost all of her life. It began at around age 6 when she would stand at the stove and help her mother cook meals. She started institutional cooking as a young adult and has worked at hospitals, nursing homes, prisons and a Burger King.

She enjoys cooking at Burlington because she says i...