We came across a great story about Trinity-Pawling School's dining hall renovation that will leave the school without a permanent dining room for the 2008-2009 academic year. The story of how the school will work through the renovation is a testament to planning and it's just fun.
How do you feed the community while the dining hall is a construction site? If you're lucky, you have another building or two that can serve as temporary dining rooms.
T-P tore down their old dining hall, but left the left the kitchen standing and fully functional. The hockey rink will serve as the dining room until the ice goes down in late fall. When the ice goes down in late fall, a new maintenance barn will be partially complete and this building will serve as the second temporary dining facility until the new dining room, Scully Hall, is finished.
Food Service moves every meal from the kitchen to the hockey rink and the school has added new vehicles to support their mobile role. As T-P Food Service Director Mark Barone told the Pawling News Chronicle, "It's like doing a wedding three times a day, seven days a week."
Underlying this year's fluid dining situation is Trinity Pawling's dedication to sit-down meals and their importance to the daily interaction among students and faculty.
Scully Hall will also be LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) compliant.
How do you feed the community while the dining hall is a construction site? If you're lucky, you have another building or two that can serve as temporary dining rooms.
T-P tore down their old dining hall, but left the left the kitchen standing and fully functional. The hockey rink will serve as the dining room until the ice goes down in late fall. When the ice goes down in late fall, a new maintenance barn will be partially complete and this building will serve as the second temporary dining facility until the new dining room, Scully Hall, is finished.
Food Service moves every meal from the kitchen to the hockey rink and the school has added new vehicles to support their mobile role. As T-P Food Service Director Mark Barone told the Pawling News Chronicle, "It's like doing a wedding three times a day, seven days a week."
Underlying this year's fluid dining situation is Trinity Pawling's dedication to sit-down meals and their importance to the daily interaction among students and faculty.
Scully Hall will also be LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) compliant.
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