Week 4

I would just like to apologize for very uninteresting writing style. J Anyways, we started this week shadowing Mr. Floyd, the Executive Director of foodservice here at UGA, during freshmen orientation. UGA does not have the luxury of having a mandatory meal plan for all on campus residents, so each year they must sell their meal plans. As a witness I have to say that they are awesome salesmen and women! As I said we followed Mr. Floyd on a usual freshmen orientation day. We spent the morning greeting parents and selling them a 2-day lunch pass. In the afternoon Asenath and I were able to watch Mr. Floyd deliver his speech to the freshmen and their parents. At the end of the day we attended another freshmen orientation dinner and I was able to talk with some of the freshmen. Everyone I talked to loved the food and was pretty excited about their meal options for this fall.

Tuesday we were able to get all our chemical inventories completed and input most of them. We returned to our rooms to finish our menu for the closing banquet. Wednesday we met with Janet and Shelly to go over our plans for the banquet. We went to a local flower wholesaler to pick out flowers. We took the flowers back to the Summit and got to play around. I have to thank Janet, because if we were left to do it the flowers would not have turned out so beautiful or inexpensive. The menu was for the most part completed and I think Shelly liked our recipes we found and I think the food at least will be a success at the banquet J I was also able to let them see some of the graphics we are considering for the programs. Madie, my friend from high school who is now a graphic design student, put some very nice graphics for us, and I’m so thankful! Now we are working on putting our recipes into Food Pro.

Thursday was spent shadowing mangers at the Tate Café and working service at some Larry’s Giant Subs. I learned that toasting sub buns is art that deserves appreciation J We got to talk to Tate’s new head manager, Louis, and he gave us some insight on his managerial skills. All the managers at Tate are great and do a very good job at what they do.

This weekend in Athens is Athfest a music festival. I’m pretty jazzed, because well Whittemore, MI doesn’t have many music festivals, so I’m sure it will be a lot of fun!