@"Patti J" I hope you are OK now.? Or at least OKish.
There are no excuses and if food safety is the real issue--as opposed to cost which we both think more likely--there needs to be more consideration given to menus.
Orange in NSW, built a huge new hospital that does not have a kitchen. Nowhere to cook, nowhere to park and, until recently, nowhere to die. All the food comes pre packed from Sydney, as I understand it. It's the same food that gets delivered to police lockups . Evidently the local crims won't touch it so the constabulary brings them McDonald's. /: