Prefect Council brought The Habit Burger Grill food truck to school Friday. The Habit’s visit to campus marks the return of the Prefect Council-organized Food Truck Fridays. Using their IDs, students were able to purchase a meal for $10.

Senior Prefect Aiko Offner ’23 said that the food trucks are a break from cafeteria food and stress.

“Initially, we worked hard to revamp food trucks last year because we were seeing issues with the cafeteria lines as we came back to campus,” Offner said. “But as we brought them throughout the year, we realized it was a good way to bring something tangible and enjoyable to the student body hopefully as a nice break from cafeteria food and the stress that’s often unavoidable at school.”

While this tradition did occur last year, an email sent by Prefect Council said this year, the trucks would be “bigger and better”. The Council’s plan is to host the events less frequently than they did last year, so that they can bring in trucks of a higher quality, according to Junior Prefect and Assistant News Editor Davis Marks ’24.

To order a meal from The Habit, students were required to wait in line. Ethan Seung ’25 said that the line was too long and irritating to wait in.

“The line somehow kept getting longer and longer even though I was in it,” Seung said. “We had people shoving each other.”

Once she got to the front of the line, Clara Berg ’25 said she enjoyed her burger.

“It is a good burger; it’s exactly what I expected,” Berg said. “It was good: not great, not bad. I am glad that they had fries because usually they run out of fries.”

Rheanna Vraidy ’25, who did not purchase food herself at the food truck, said that she enjoyed the fries.

“My eleventh grade bestie offered me a fry that he got at the food truck and it was actually pretty good, so maybe [going to the food truck] was worth it,” Vraidy said. “But, also, the cafeteria has fries, which are pretty good, so maybe it wasn’t worth it.”

Tess Rosenfeld ’25 said she chose not to eat at the Habit due to dietary preferences.

“I’m not the hugest fan of the Habit because I am vegetarian and I don’t like their veggie burger very much because veggie burgers are very subjective and it depends on the person,” Rosenfeld said.

Although Eloise Stoddard ’23 chose not to eat a hamburger, she said she is a fan of Food Truck Fridays.

“I think [Food Truck Fridays are] a great school tradition and I think it makes a lot of people happy,” Stoddard said.

Looking to the future, Nathalie Paniagua ’23 said she hopes to see a wider array of cultures and options that are inclusive of dietary preferences.

“I think we should bring in a variety of foods, especially foods from different cultures so that the community can experience their foods, and [have] better vegan options,” Paniagua said.