Cafeteria worker cashes out after 42 years of service
BUTLER TWP — There was something special on the lunch menu Thursday in the Butler Senior High School cafeteria.
The flowers and balloons around her cashier’s station and the well wishes and congratulations of the tray-carrying students gave it away: After 42 years, cafeteria cashier Darlene Sloboda was turning in her hair net and retiring.
Sloboda, 72, of Boyers not only spent 42 years working in the cafeteria, but as a Butler High graduate she ate there as well. She said she met her husband, Rocco, in the cafeteria, too.
She’s one of 22 cashiers, servers and cooks at the high school serving 680 to 700 lunches during three 30-minute lunch periods, and 250 to 280 breakfasts each day.
“I started when I was 30,” she said. “I was part-time at first, then I was hired full-time.”
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