Hello All! My name is Catherine and I’m one of the interns for UGA foodservice this summer (2010). I’m from Michigan and I will be senior in Dietetics next fall at Michigan State University, but I’m pretty certain my focus will be foodservice when I graduate.
I’m really enjoying Athens so far. Asenath and I have been here since Tuesday and been able to see a lot of the campus thanks to Kris. We’ve also met a ton of people in the foodservice department.
Even though it wasn’t part of the internship, Tuesday we were able to attend a small food show in Atlanta. The food show was put on by Royal Foodservice, a recent addition as UGA’s prime produce vendor. I’m glad I able to attend because we got some contacts and information for our project in July and of course there was lots of really good samples!
Thursday was our first official day of our internship. We spent all day touring the campus, most of the units, and meeting most of the managers. The first day was a little overwhelming and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to find most of the places we visited. However, seeing everything will come in handy later and makes me pretty excited for the next two months! J
Friday we had a later shift shadowing student managers (blackshirts). We followed Brittany as she performed her daily rounds, and she showed us the scheduling aspect of her job. From the looks, scheduling is a tedious but necessary job! We also were able to spend a little time with Lakethia, a assistant cafeteria manager. She showed us the central food storage on campus and also some aspects of past special events, like scrapbooks and stored decorations. Hopefully, these will give us some good ideas for our banquet planning in July.
