An application for a canteen is written on behalf of the students requesting a canteen for healthy food and refreshments at school.

How to write it

• Write the application on behalf of all the students of the school, using "we" and "our", since a canteen serves the whole student body.
• Address it to the Headmaster and give a clear subject line asking for the establishment of a canteen.
• In the body, explain the problem — students have no place to buy healthy food and refreshments during breaks — and how a canteen would solve it.
• Point out the benefits: hygienic food, saved time, and no need to leave the school premises during the tiffin period.
• End with a courteous appeal to the Headmaster to take the necessary steps and set up the canteen.

Model

Date: 8 March 2026

To

The Headmaster

Government High School, Dhaka

Subject: Application for the establishment of a canteen.

Sir

With due respect, we, the students of your school, beg to state that our school has no canteen of its own, and this causes us great difficulty every day.

During the tiffin break we have no place inside the school to buy healthy food or refreshments, so many students have to go out to roadside shops where the food is often stale and unhygienic. This wastes our time and sometimes makes us fall ill.

If a canteen were established within the school premises, we could get fresh, wholesome food at a fair price without leaving the campus, and it would save both our time and our health.

We, therefore, pray and hope that you would be kind enough to take the necessary steps to establish a canteen in our school, and thus oblige us.

We remain,

Sir,

Your obedient students,

The students of Class X

Government High School, Dhaka