Trayless Tuesday

Today was the first Trayless Tuesday!

Though Simone, Nayab and I had established with the Operations and Dining Hall staff for the weekly event to start next week, Simone and I were pleasantly surprised at breakfast when there were no trays and one of the kitchen staff was directing students faculty to bus their own plates and utensils.

Our meeting yesterday (which I'll highlight later in my second weekly update) went very interestingly, but Ms. Ola was very happy to start Trayless Tuesdays. The only major stipulation to TT was that waiters would still use trays to carry food and plates during sit-down lunches. This of course made sense because they carry heavy platters and multiple plates on a tray at a time.

Next week we just have to remove the trays from the side dining hall where faculty and staff eat their lunches and our dining hall will be (nearly) completely trayless once a week! This project will certainly cut down our water usage and food waste. Hopefully this will run smoothly and we can eliminate trays at all non sit-down meals.

Here is an interesting and very timely post from Freakonomics:
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/what-happens-when-college-cafeterias-go-trayless/