The food service at Ottawa University is finding ways to help students enjoy meals more.
Christine Krin, a general manager for Sodexo Campus Services, the company that provides food service to Ottawa University, said that this plan is a student choice dinner, which would include the foods most requested by students.
“This is an idea that we have with the food service committee,” she said. “Once a month, we would have that student choice meal.”
“We’ve also been working with other students,” Krin said.
Casey-Jack Kitos-Coppoc, a senior communications major from Lawrence, said that he had asked for some Jewish foods to be served in the cafeteria.
The specific foods he asked for were matzo ball soup, which is essentially chicken and dumplings with corn meal instead of flour, kretalch, a dessert, and latkes, which are potato pancakes.
“I wanted to be able to have others on campus experience the Jewish culture,” he said.
“And the matzo ball soup seemed to go over really well.”
Krin said that the recent food service survey was for the purpose of setting goals for overall improvement.
“It’s been a while since we’ve done a survey here,” she said. “And any good organization need to have a benchmark or a starting place in order to have a process of improvement.”
Keith Niemeyer, a Freshman and religion major on the food service committee, said there were a large number of respondents.
“Anyone that came in to eat dinner was told to fill it out,” he said. “It was their choice to fill it out.”
Krin said that they still have plans for the remainder of the semester, including another soup bread bowls lunch.
A series of late night food events are planned for finals week, from 10 to 11 p.m. on December 6, 7, and 8.