Originally Posted by Darth Lefty

Most often I'd bring a serving of last night's dinner. I like the screw top Ziploc branded 2-cup containers. I will say that they tend to get discolored, stained by spaghetti sauce, melted by oil that goes past boiling in the microwave to near the plastic's melting point. Ceramic would have some advantages for warming up and cleaning but would be more likely to leak and break.

We have a cafe that is presently still being run by the couple who had it when I arrived 17 years ago. I work for the original tenant of the facility but they sent most of the business to Alabama about five years ago. The cafe business pivoted hard into catering, which they were already doing a lot. They got some government contracts for meals on wheels during Covid. The cafe has so far survived, diminished. They still have about 2/3 of the menu they did before, including a really great turkey sandwich on nut bread with avocado spread and sprouts. Their specials are often gourmet stuff from their catering that day.