The newly-renovated Schine Dining area has exceeded all expectations in its first 30 days of operation. Food Services staff has remained busy from the moment the building opens each day to well after it closes it each night. Led by Sue Bracy, Food Services director of retail and catering operations, 64 professional union staff and 140 student employees serve thousands of hungry customers each day, all while managing social distancing and public health guidelines around in-person seating and dining.
The success at Schine has been shared at every location. Both CoreLife and Halal Shack have reported that their locations at Schine are the busiest locations in their entire chains. In the beginning, CoreLife staff from its flagship location were on hand to assist because of the incredible volume – and they ended up staying for weeks to pitch in!
In the coming weeks and months, Food Services will look to expand its workforce at Schine, enabling its restaurants to extend their hours as new staff are hired and trained. But for now, the team will take a quick minute to breathe and celebrate the successes of their first month!
In its first month, Schine Dining:
- Served 70,000 customers
- Earned $630,000 in sales, compared to $274,000 in the same month in 2019
- Dunkin’ served 8,748 breakfast sandwiches and 8,000 iced coffees (and counting!)
- Chocolate Pizza Company sold 900 chocolate pretzel rods and 144 slices
- Halal Shack’s cooks prepared 7,500 pounds of chicken
- Panda Express distributed 12,400 fortune cookies
- CoreLife Eatery serves over 500 bowls a day in seven and a half hours. That means their staff can prepare a bowl in less than one minute!
- Food Services staff prepped 80 pounds of sweet potatoes each day for CoreLife
- The staff needed to purchase 36 new stanchions for social distancing and line control
- Four times a day, a truck full of dirty dishes is shipped from Schine to the commissary to be washed, as the dish room on-site is not large enough to keep up!
