The catering and Beverage Management class in the Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management program will be preparing and serving luncheons, restaurant style, for faculty and staff on five Thursdays during the Fall semester. The students in the class write their own menus, select recipes, and direct the entire operation of the event as part of the requirements of their Catering and Beverage Manage
ment class. The Thursday luncheons will be a full service luncheon with an appetizer, salad, meat, starch, vegetable, dinner roll, dessert and beverages [coffee, tea, and iced tea]. The price will range from about $10.00 to $15.00 depending on the menu -- tipping is not accepted since this is a laboratory capstone course. The dinners will be served in the Academic Complex Dining Room (AC-213) -- you are welcome to arrive anytime between 11:30 a.m. Seating is limited to the first 60 people for each luncheon; tickets go on sale at 8 a.m. the Thursday before the meal. Because this is a laboratory course, for which customers are asked to rate both the quality of their meal and service, we do not provide "to go" or take out meals. HOW TO PURCHASE TICKETS
Interested faculty and staff must purchase a ticket in advance. Tickets will be sold in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) office (AC-302) during normal business hours (8:00 a.m. beginning on Thursday the week before the meal. Unfortunately, we cannot accept credit cards, so please bring cash or a check made payable to WKU to pay for the tickets. Please note that calling the FACS office does not constitute a reservation or a ticket for you, as tickets cannot be "held" for anyone.. You must have purchased a ticket to have a reservation. Tickets generally sell out rather quickly, so be sure to purchase your tickets early. Ticket prices are not refundable -- here is why. We sell our tickets in advance, so we know exactly how many meals to prepare -- that way we keep the cost of the meal to a minimum. Since we do not maintain an inventory of food items and we have no other source of funding, we purchase only the ingredients we need for each meal, using the funds from the tickets. Once a ticket is purchased, we commit those funds to purchase the items we need to prepare and serve the meal. If you purchase a ticket and realize later that you cannot attend the luncheon for one reason or another, please understand there are no funds available to give you a refund -- the money has already been committed to purchase food and supplies for the meal. Feel free to transfer the tickets to a friend. Thanks for your support. Bon Appetit!
