Cafeteria food

We've all been disappointed by a cafeteria at one time or another. On Monday, the cafeteria at work disappointed me yet again, and this time I gotta say something.
I know I shouldn't complain. It's very convenient and all. When I joined the company, we had just moved to a new building, and so the cafeteria was still being built. I was kind of excited about having the cafeteria, mainly because of the convenience aspect, but also because of the social aspect it would bring.
They had a contest to name the cafe... I submitted two brilliant entries... which lost out to Baybreeze Cafe. Oh c'mon.... That was the first let down.
As days went by, I realized people don't really socialize in dining area. They all just take their food to their desks. Glumly, I learned to do the same.
Once, they put on the menu "Free pastry when you buy a Starbucks coffee" (there's an internal webpage that they post the menu on) It was new, and the people that worked there didn't know what I was talking about, and so I had a hard time getting my pastry. Other people were looking at me like I was an ahole, wondering why I was trying to get a free pastry. :'(
Every Tuesday is Indian food day. Every Thursday is Mexican food day. Every Friday is grill day. At first I thought it was genius. I even started to like Indian food. But I've been let down by the Mexican food a few too many times, I've gone back to not liking Indian food, and whoever thought you could get tired of burgers. I'm only mildly interested now on Mondays and Wednesdays, which are wildcards. Usually it's like, pasta tho, which I like, but at Baybreeze cafe,... eh... it's whatevers.
Well, this week on Monday morning I checked the menu, and "Country-fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn on the cob" piqued my interest. Though disappointed time and again by the cafeteria, I felt a glimmer of hope. Once in a while they managed to serve up a gem. Maybe this would be one of those days. I remember when I first started buying food in the cafeteria, I thought they served a lot of food, and the price was decent. (about 5.00-6.50) But as the weeks went by, I started to think that they were serving smaller amounts. It's not just my appetite growing. I think they really are. Like, they would fill up the to-go boxes with food, but this Monday, my box was half-empty. (That's right, I can't say it was half-full) This is something I didn't really get. Why are they being stingy with the food? Do the workers have to buy the food with their own pay?? Maybe they're genuinely concerned about my caloric intake. I mean, it's not even subtle... it's blatantly obvious!! I swear when they hand me my food, and I look at them and give them the quizzical eyebrow raise, they gotta know what I'm thinking... they just close the box quickly and slide it over to me sheepishly. At least use smaller to-go boxes so it doesn't look so bad!! Anyway. So now I'm thinking, it's gonna be hard to enjoy this. because I just feel ripped off now. I figure I'll try to make the best of it by splashing Tabasco over the chicken... I look at it... it looks so sad. The chicken is so small. There was a breast piece that looked like it was from an anorexic chicken. And two wing pieces, that were also very small. Like the chicken was a dwarf or something. Who knows. Maybe the cafeteria got a great deal on sparrows and don't have any qualms misleading me telling me it's chicken. I looked at it again... and reconsidered.... maybe this is a normal amount of food, and I just eat too much. Maybe the box is just huge and it's an optical illusion. It does look like at least they gave me a lot of mashed potatoes.... I finished my food in 13 minutes. I'm not a fast eater. It really was as little as I thought it was. And I still felt hungry. Boo.