Week 4 at OU!

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Week 4 at OU!

Week 4!

This week Erin and I helped at Couch and learned the fundamental work that goes into the kitchen to feed hundreds of students. We got a tour through Couch and an overview of all the equipment that the staff use to provide the upmost service for students. We looked at the production side, which displayed recipes being created and the calculations that are involved to feed all the Crimson Camps that come in to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. There were about 650 students within these camps and that’s not including the other camps that were going on throughout the week such as wrestling and cheerleading.

With the Crimson Camp, we also learned and participated in how they set up a BBQ to feed the many students that OU has this summer. Doug, who is a supervisor at Couch visually demonstrated to us how he breaks down the serving lines to make sure that they are able to get the students through quickly as possible. The reason why he does this is because they will be serving 650 students at this BBQ. At this event there was 6 tables set up and 1 was the allergen/diet table. Doug stood at the head of the tables and broke the Crimson camp up into sections so they could be served at the 5 tables more efficiently. Also, he mentioned about the special allergen/diet table for those individuals who have specific diets. It was neat to see how smooth it was going. They staffed enough individuals that there was no extra help needed. We served over 650 individuals in 34 minutes. Doug calls that a new record!

After that we just listened to other skills that the workers at Couch provide for the University. One individual was from France! She told us how much she loves cooking and seeing how the servers work alongside one another to be more efficient!