This week was packed full of our favorite thing….MEETINGS!!!
I’ll spare you the details and just let you know that they were super
productive and educational. Dianne really has me focusing on the dynamic of the
meeting and the team. Everyone contributes something else to the conversation
and it’s great to see the problem solving and discussion progress. I tend to be
surprised frequently when someone brings up a brand new factor that you
wouldn’t even consider not being in the food service industry. My mind has been
blown quite a bit this week. Brett is the individual that tends to surprise me
most. Brett’s perspective focuses more on logistics and finances as opposed to
customer service.
Besides the
excitement of meeting, Justine and I put some more time into Fresh Bites. We
did some recipe touching up and maintenance. We wanted everything to be uniform
such as, serving size and instruction format. We all spent time separating
dressing from salad recipes, which included making new and separate recipes for
the dressing. We are proud of the work we put into this project and I will
continue to do touch ups on my own now that Justine has moved on to her next
rotation. I have decided a project is never really done. There are always
adjustments to be made.
Dianne, Justine, and I got to go on an adventure this week.
We went out to US Foods’ Scoop food show. We got to try products from their
Scoop line, which is trendier. The line had a focus on sustainable products.
Our favorites were dessert; sea salt caramel ice cream and chocolate cake. I
also really enjoyed the guacamole. Everything was delicious and, of course, I
was stuffed again. Justine and I got to speak with a few incredible people from
US Foods about their roles. Later in the week, Don sat down with us at John
Green and continued to tell us all about what he does in US Foods and US Foods
as a whole. Food distributors, such as US Foods, offer dietetic majors like me
another interesting career path.
This week I also got the opportunity to experience the beast
that is the interviewing process. ISU uses a style of interviewing that invites
the candidate to discuss a situation in the past that reflects their skills or
how the individual handled a situation. The purpose of questions that focus on
the past is to get a good sense of how the candidate will act in a position.
Past performance and actions is indicative of how the candidate will act the
future. Watching interviews from the other side has given me a different and
helpful perspective for when I go to interview.
Now for the fun stuff. The fun began on Friday when Dianne
invited Justine and I to the local theater to watch ten-minute plays that had
been submitted from all over with a shared theme of “art gallery”. Justine and
I believe that we should have starred in these ten-minute plays after we
perfected our art gallery acting for the ISU commercial. That night we also got to meet Dianne’s friend who used to
work at ISU CDS and one of Dianne’s previous dietetic interns. Every year the
three of them go to these plays together and I am glad Justine and I got to
join them.
This weekend I also made the bold move to take a train to
St. Louis for the weekend all by myself. St. Louis was absolutely wonderful! I
had great BBQ, which was really the most important thing. The arch is
absolutely majestic and it is an exciting trip to the top. The old courthouse
is way cooler than you would expect, so definitely go on in. I took a trolley
tour to get the feel for the city and see what it has to offer. The city garden
was beautiful and has some wonderful art. I hope to one day return to St. Louis
and explore some more. Another great week in the books and on to the next one!
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