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Oh man, what a weekend!

For those of you know don’t know, Chartwells has two main components, which are campus dining and catering.

The catering component isn’t limited to students or academic life. Chartwells caters wedding receptions, parties, or other events.

This weekend was my first catering job. It was for a college reunion at the west campus dining hall in Lourdes. 

Pretty snazzy looking, isn't it?

I lived in Lourdes Hall my freshman year.

I thought places like this only existed in really stereotypical movies about college.

What I didn’t know is that Lourdes used to be part of the College of Saint Teresa.

On Saturday night, a few other staff members at Jack Kane came over to Lourdes to help out with the catering gig. This meant we folded dinner rolls in bread baskets, polished and set silverware, but we were mostly responsible for serving food. 

Hi, my name is Leanne Keacher. I have never been a waitress, but now, I am suddenly going to be a waitress for that huge dining hall. 

That's what it felt like. 

But it was fun! It was super, super busy, so I didn't have any time to take pictures, which was a shame. Instead of this the classic purple polos, I got to wear a white collared shirt and a black apron. I'm really, really mad at myself that I don't have a picture of it. The WSU Chartwells page usually has pictures of catering events, so I am sad that they didn't post any for this one. I put off writing this blog entry because I wanted pictures of the event so you could see how swell the place looked...*head-desk*

 Here is a picture of a wedding Chartwells catered, which is similar to how the class reunion looked:

It sure doesn't look like the same place where I ate egg-white omelets at 7 am with a newspaper in hand. 

Debbie King is the manager for catering jobs. This summer, they allowed alcohol at campus building for catering events. Suddenly after that, she had seven wedding receptions booked. Coincidence much? They even had a wedding in the Tau Center. Not just a reception, an actual wedding, seriously. 

I think the word should get out that they now allow alcohol. Lourdes is a really beautiful building and I would highly recommend it for any special events. They don't serve you the same food as they have in Jack Kane. They offer special menus and custom requests. I was surprised to see chicken stuffed with wild rice, asparagus, and tiramisu at this class reunion, but it was all very tasty. At 9 pm, us staff members got a chance to sit down and enjoy dinner. My friend David hadn't eaten all day, so he was pretty stoked to get a tasty meal at the end of a night of running around like a hyper mouse carrying trays of chicken.

For more information, this is the catering home page:

http://www.dineoncampus.com/winona/show.cfm?cmd=catering