We met Paul & Beth at Miller Dining Hall this morning for an early breakfast. Paul is so generous! He brought Rachael & I a cooler full of fun snacks for us to take on our trip to Glacier this weekend. (Not to mention he gave us 3 days off next week!)
We drove to Billings which is about 2 hours away. It is a big joke between all of us that I cannot stay awake in the car. I usually fall asleep before we even get out of Bozeman! I blame my parents for putting me in the car to get me to fall asleep at night as a child. (Just kidding Mom & Dad)
The FSA meeting went really well. I was a little nervous because it was with the President of the Billings branch and several other people with impressive titles. Luckily, it was "jeans day" so anyone in the company could pay $5 to wear jeans, so everyone was laid back and very welcoming. They raise a lot of money for charity by doing this once a month. The annual meeting is basically the one time of year that we all sit down and talk about changes to be made, special delivery dates, and anything that may need to be addressed before the new school year is underway. Communication is so important in a situation like this because there are no reminders in the mail. Once we give them a hand out or set a date for something, we expect that they will follow through with what needs to be done. I presented some information about the new salad dressing, beef cube steaks, whole wheat pizza crusts, pork tenderloin, peppermints, and the annual special order list. The meeting only lasted 1 1/2 or so, even though it took the entire day yesterday (and all the work we've been doing the past 4 weeks) to prepare for it. This was sort of a cumulative project for me and Rachael. By this point we have a pretty decent understanding of the business end of food service.
After the meeting, April took us on a tour of the warehouse. They stock about 7,000 items. They had whole warehouse rooms that were refrigerated! Each produce room had a different temp depending on what the particular vegetable likes best. They also had several banana gassing rooms to turn the bananas from green to yellow before sale. The organization that must go into organizing and retreiving things in a warehouse of this size is unbelievable. They have some new rules due to terrorist threat. Because they sell to the military, the food supply has to be secure. They added a barbed wire fence around the building and guests have to check in and out and wear a special tag.
We drove to Billings which is about 2 hours away. It is a big joke between all of us that I cannot stay awake in the car. I usually fall asleep before we even get out of Bozeman! I blame my parents for putting me in the car to get me to fall asleep at night as a child. (Just kidding Mom & Dad)
The FSA meeting went really well. I was a little nervous because it was with the President of the Billings branch and several other people with impressive titles. Luckily, it was "jeans day" so anyone in the company could pay $5 to wear jeans, so everyone was laid back and very welcoming. They raise a lot of money for charity by doing this once a month. The annual meeting is basically the one time of year that we all sit down and talk about changes to be made, special delivery dates, and anything that may need to be addressed before the new school year is underway. Communication is so important in a situation like this because there are no reminders in the mail. Once we give them a hand out or set a date for something, we expect that they will follow through with what needs to be done. I presented some information about the new salad dressing, beef cube steaks, whole wheat pizza crusts, pork tenderloin, peppermints, and the annual special order list. The meeting only lasted 1 1/2 or so, even though it took the entire day yesterday (and all the work we've been doing the past 4 weeks) to prepare for it. This was sort of a cumulative project for me and Rachael. By this point we have a pretty decent understanding of the business end of food service.
After the meeting, April took us on a tour of the warehouse. They stock about 7,000 items. They had whole warehouse rooms that were refrigerated! Each produce room had a different temp depending on what the particular vegetable likes best. They also had several banana gassing rooms to turn the bananas from green to yellow before sale. The organization that must go into organizing and retreiving things in a warehouse of this size is unbelievable. They have some new rules due to terrorist threat. Because they sell to the military, the food supply has to be secure. They added a barbed wire fence around the building and guests have to check in and out and wear a special tag.
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