Great food service
Posted in Uncategorized on 06/01/2010 02:39 pm by LaurelHoughton College has signed on a new food service company, here at the end of the year, and we are all celebrating! The old one was fine if you can eat anything, but they made very few concessions for special diets and were often not even pleasant about it. I would listen to parents telling about the special meals prepared for celiacs at their student’s school and try not to feel bitter about Esther’s cooking for herself in the tiny kitchen in her dorm and eating alone in her room, or subsisting on multiple pieces of fruit on weekends when the kitchen did not cook gluten-free pasta or make rice. She abandoned meat altogether, since they could not cook her anything plain.
She called today to say how great the new food service was, how they came looking for her and asked her to come in and talk to them about her needs. They promised to cook her plain meat, and whatever she needed, because they did not want her to go hungry. I could have cried for sheer thankfulness, remembering all the days she has done just that. For the couple dozen special needs diets on campus, life just got a whole lot better!
