Dinner ladies are asking for an upgrade, according to the Daily Mail.Following TV chef Jamie Oliver's healthy meals campaign, they arepreferring to be called school cooks, school chefs or lunchtimesupervisors. Geraldine Brooks, 48, who is studying for an NVQ inprofessional cookery, said, 'You are responsible for hygiene, forordering, for stock-taking, for time sheets, for arranging cover whenstaff are sick, and that's why I think the title of dinner lady is notreally happening.'
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