Personalized Custom Lunch Lady Shirt with Her Photo and Name – Vintage Photo Tee

She knows which kids can’t have peanuts and whose birthday it is today.

This personalized lunch lady shirt is a customized photo tee that gives her the spotlight: LUNCH LADY repeating in antique gold, her black and white picture in front, and the name the kids use written across it in white script.

Upload her photo

What will the kids see on her lunch lady shirt?

Our sample shows a cafeteria worker in a hairnet and dark apron, smiling as she holds out a divided lunch tray. Rows of LUNCH LADY in gold capitals stack behind her, and Miss Donna loops across the photo in white script.

Every photo is turned to grayscale so it reads like a vintage photo top from an old yearbook.

Send a picture from the serving line, school picture day or the last day before summer break. Come June, it’s a photo memory tee of that school year.

Who’s chipping in on lunch lady gifts?

Room parents and PTA volunteers order most of these, collecting from families who want to thank the lady who knows every kid’s name and allergy. They’ve seen the apple-shaped mugs and want her own face and the name the kids call her.

• Teacher appreciation
• Back to school
• Mother’s Day

Start her lunch lady tee

From photo to finished shirt

1. Pick a tee, long sleeve, crewneck or hoodie in the size she likes.
2. Choose a shirt color to go with her school’s spirit days.
3. Upload her picture and type her name the way students say it. Our sample lady is swapped for your photo.
4. Check out. Completed example: a staff photo in her apron, name line Ms. Brenda.

Who’s thanking the lady behind the lunch line?

• Cafeteria staff get left off teacher appreciation lists more often than not
• Thank-you gifts for her usually end up being a candle or a mug
• Kids know her name but rarely see it on anything

For a lot of kids, the lunch lady is the friendliest face they see all day. Her black and white photo sits over rows of LUNCH LADY in antique gold, with Miss Donna or whatever the kids call her looped across in white script.

A phone photo is fine. Clear light and a face that isn’t cut off are what matter. Because the name prints in script, short names and titles like Miss or Ms. look neatest; we print the text exactly as typed, which makes this a custom text tshirt as well.

Fabric, fit and sizes

Choose the Comfort Colors 1717 tee for warm kitchens: garment-dyed, 6.1 oz, 100% ring-spun cotton, S up to 4XL.

For recess duty in winter, the 1566 crewneck (80/20 fleece, S to 3XL) or the 1567 hoodie (preshrunk 80/20 fleece, jersey-lined hood, pouch pocket, S to 2XL) keep her warm. All relaxed unisex; size up one or two on fleece for an oversized fit.

Find inches on our size guide. She can swap to the Comfort Colors 6014 long sleeve too, sized S to 3XL.

Kids in her lunch line who want to match can order the 9018 youth tee, XS to XL, and her own little ones the Rabbit Skins 3326 toddler hoodie, 2T to 5/6T.

Print and delivery

We print by DTF or DTG depending on the garment, with 1 to 3 business days of production and 3 to 5 business days of tracked USPS transit. Plan ahead for appreciation days; our shipping info has the details.

Type the name kids use

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