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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is hospital cafeteria food so cheap?

Im eating in the hospital right now and ordered 2 cheeseburgers for $2 and fries for another $2 with a $1 drink especially in this economy how is this food so cheap??
gpt
Hospital is not trying to make money from it. 

Simple food can be made very cheaply, and as a hospital, they do not want their patients or medical staff to go hungry because they cannot afford to buy food.


If you eat there long enough, you will notice that there is not much variety or flavor, and everything is re-heated frozen food.