DECA to Open Thursday

Atrisco Heritage Academy High School's DECA snack bar will open Thursday, Aug. 26. Many AHA students are eagerly awaiting the opening because school lunch lines have been longer than usual. The school has added about 500 more students from last year.
"Sometimes I wait five or 10 minutes to get my lunch," said Brandon Arnold, an AHA junior. "When DECA opens I can get a slice of pizza and a Gatorade a lot quicker."
DECA sponsor teacher Roland Soto said the snack bar wasn't ready to open until this week because students were still being transferred into special Business Academy classes designed to run the snack bar.
DECA snack bar offers pizza, subs, chips, cookies, cereal bars, burritos, drinks, and salads.
Students are in charge of stocking, selling and cleaning up after the snack bar closes each day. It's a lot of work, but Mr. Soto said his Business Academy students are up for the challenges.
"The DECA snack bar is only one of the retail-oriented businesses we will be running," he said. "DECA will also open a Jag Store sometime in the near future."
The store will be in the C-Building on campus, and it will offer hats, shirts, beanies and other school spirit gear.