Dining Services Picks Up Two More Laurels
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Last Sunday's Woodstock-themed picnic is featured in a photo essay on the WMGK Web site. Not to be missed: Associate Director of Dining Services Dave Chase in hippie costume. | This summer, Bryn Mawr Dining Services added more accolades to its already-overflowing trophy case. Bryn Mawr moved to number four on the Princeton Review's "Best Campus Food" list just a few weeks after Dining Services Director Bernie Chung-Templeton accepted a Loyal E. Horton Dining Award from the National Association of College and University Food Services.
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Haffner Cold-food Cook Arnita Stokes on her way to replenish the salad bar |
BMCDS has numerous Horton awards to its credit, many for its imaginatively presented theme dinners. This year's bronze, however, was won in a category in which the College competed for the first time in 2007: "Residence Hall Dining – Single Stand-Alone Concept." The prizewinning dining hall was the popular Haffner Terminal, which features five dining "stations" that operate on a two-week menu cycle: a vegetarian station; a pizza bar with continuously replenished fresh pies; an extensive soup, salad and sandwich bar; a dessert bar; and an ethnic-food bar that offers two different world cuisines each semester.
Chung-Templeton's student assistant, Jessica Schwartz '09, worked with Haffner Unit Manager Steven Sensenich to prepare the contest entry, a colorful, eye-catching 45-page notebook. Using photographs, menus, marketing publications and testimonials from student diners, the notebook calls attention to the variety and quality of Haffner's menus; one page lists 90 new menu items that were added during the last academic year. Other sections focus on the attractive and creative presentation of food, the accommodation of students with restricted diets, the availability of nutritional information and BMCDS's responsiveness to students' needs and suggestions.
Haffner Terminal is open every day from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. This quarter's ethnic bar is "Lechuza," featuring a Mexican menu that was popular with diners last year, as attested by a student's napkin note saying: "¡I love you! ¡You gave me chicken mole! ¡I am eternally in your debt!! ¡MORE MOLE!" For diners who are not on a BMCDS meal plan, the cash price for entry to the all-you-can eat dining hall is $8.00 for lunch (11 a.m.-4 p.m.) and $9.75 for dinner (4-6:30 p.m.). The Bryn Mawr Express card (for Bryn Mawr faculty and staff) offers a significant savings: $5.50 is charged to the card for lunch and $7 for dinner. Sensenich and his staff welcome hungry new customers.
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