by Michelle Snider

Culinary Arts students and staff had cause for elation Nov. 21 when a very important campus elevator was fully functional after four weeks “out of service.”

The elevator goes from the downstairs kitchen to the Student Center cafeteria and is the main food transport. “The students are thrilled,” noted culinary arts instructor Lawrence Jackson. “We had been using ‘wheels for hotboxes’ to keep the food warm as students rolled them from the kitchen to the Student Center cafeteria.”

That circuitous route went from the Student Center ground floor, past the wood tech construction area, to the G building elevator. Then students moved the hotboxes from lower G building to the cafeteria in the Student Center. “Those hotboxes are not sturdy enough for long distances,” Jackson points out. He was concerned that a wheel could break off and the hotbox could injure on a student. In addition, culinary instructors had to run up and down the stairs at F building several times a day to check on students in the cafeteria. A functioning elevator has solved many problems.