Our largest project at Northeast Rehab was hosting an event in the staff cafeteria. We decided on a Mediterranean themed "build your own bowl" day after discussing ideas with the kitchen and cafeteria staff. This flyer was posted around the cafe to advertise for the event. We also posted "bite-sized" blurbs of information around the cafe the day of the event to educate our patrons about the benefits of the Mediterranean diet (see below). We successfully sold close to 60 bowls and received a lot of positive feedback after the event. 

This project provided a great way to practice organizational and management techniques in the foodservice setting. We had control over menu development, ordering, prepping/cooking, task delegation and logistics of the event day including serving, educating patrons, and clean up. Our success was largely in thanks due to the wonderful foodservice staff at Northeast Rehab.

We participated in the yearly "Mack Gives Back" event where students and other Merrimack College community members get together to package meals that will be distributed to those in need through The Outreach Program. For 1 hour, we worked in an assembly line to package individual meals of apple cinnamon oatmeal. In the end, we packaged over 250 meals to be distributed!