Winter 2023 Campus Dining Today - 44

Sizzling
campus
Summer lunch series sparks
excitement at new dining hall
Bart Hipple
assistant director,
marketing and
communication,
dining services,
University of
Maryland
" You mean I can visit Yahentamitsi any time,
even when school is in session? " an excited
University of Maryland (UMD) staffer asked the
greeter at Yahentamitsi Dining Hall during the
summer of 2022, before the new facility officially
opened.
The dining hall would open its doors for the first
time in the fall of 2022. The building had seemed
like a mystery to the campus all summer, with
only a few UMD Dining Services employees
getting a look at the state-of-the-art equipment
at Yahentamitsi, wondering whether this
beautiful new facility would be ready to serve
the 11,000 students with unlimited access dining
plans registered to live on campus that fall.
Then, Colleen Wright-Riva, assistant vice
president for the UMD Division of Student
Affairs, and Joe Mullineaux, interim dining
services director, suggested a way to open
Yahentamitsi and enhance the sense of
community on campus-before the hall opened
its doors for the students.
They proposed a series of events the dining
services team eventually dubbed Summer
Sizzlin' Lunches-three days when the faculty
and staff on campus was invited to an all-youcare-to-eat
lunch for just $5 per person.
Although it seemed like a daunting task,
Assistant Director of Yahentamitsi Jason
Comoglio and his staff were a seasoned team.
Some were " returners " who came from The
Diner, a facility closed to make way for the new
dining hall. However, some were new employees,
team members who had not worked for dining
services before-many of whom without
previous experience in food service. No one was
familiar with the platform set up nor the new
equipment.
The team at Yahentamitsi accepted this
challenge nonetheless and geared up for three
unpredictable events. At this point, there had
not been many gathering opportunities since the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Still, these lunches were an opportunity to
introduce the new dining hall to the campus
community. They would also give the team a
chance to explore new station layouts, to test
and use unfamiliar equipment, and to work in
open kitchens with guests able to watch every
step of food preparation. The culinary team, led
by Chef Michael Norman, crafted a diverse menu,
utilizing skills that his team brought to campus
from more than 70 different countries.
Mullineaux sent out invitations to department
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