Food Committee

Next Food Committee meeting: Friday (tomorrow) 2:00 in Seminar A

Five major things came out of our meeting from last Friday:

1. The food committee consists of Ami Acheson (Student), Wesley Goodrich (Student), Trint (Aladdin), and Terry (Aladdin).  In order to better define the purpose of the food committee, we created goals for the school year.  They are as follows:
     a. Create an open system of good, productive communication between students and Aladdin Staff.
     b. Address student concerns in a financially conservative and appropriate manner.

2. If you have dietary restrictions, please contact Chad Childs, Ami Acheson, Terry or Trint so that these restrictions can go into food planning.  Examples of dietary restrictions would include but are not limited to: vegans, vegetarians, lactose intolerance, peanut allergies, etc.

3. Please try and clean up after yourself.  If you drop a piece of chicken, pick it up.  Aladdin workers clean up, but they are not your mothers and you are not a toddler.  If you wouldn't leave a mess at your own house, please be respectful to your fellow students and Aladdin staff and try to pick up after yourself.

4. Please bring the bowls, cups, plates, silverware, etc. back to the caf.  Bethel pays for these things, not Aladdin, and at the beginning of the school year, there were enough of each for everyone.  However, some items are starting to get low.  If you have them in your room, bring them to the caf please.  You don't even have to clean them, just bring them back so they can be used by everyone again. 

5. There is a new feedback system for comments.  Good, bad, and indifferent comments can be emailed to foodcommittee@bethelks.edu.  Please include constructive comments or suggestions so that we can serve you better.

Some other items discussed include:

Aladdin expressed concern with what students really want.  If comment cards are anonymous and/or do not include a date, then it is very difficult to give feedback or have discussion about the items addressed on the comment card.

It is against health code to spray for flying insects in the caf.  The best they can do is to hang fly paper and hope the flies go there.  However, if the doors to the outside are held open for long periods of time then flies will come into the building and there isn't anything we can do about it until the weather gets colder and the flies start disappearing.

Aladdin is going to launch a facebook page which should have future menus and suggestion areas.

Please, please, please scan your card every time you enter the caf.  The way your meal plan works is that you pay the school a set amount for a set number of meals every week.  You pay for these meals whether you eat them or not.  Where scanning comes into play is for Aladdin's food costs.  The more students that scan for each meal, the lower the food cost is per person.  This makes it easier for Aladdin to justify spending more money on food for meals.  This will also help to give more options for Evening and Weekend meals.

Thanks,

Ami Acheson