Mickie Vanhoy and Tricia Dye purchase sandwiches from Central Station. Photo by Sacha Swift, The Vista
Central Station, located in the food laboratory of Human Enviromental Sciences building, has opened for the semester.
The venue is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and has been updated in menu and look.
?Central Station is run by the dietetics department. We have everything from our own turkey central sandwiches to the signatures dishes students prepare on their day,? Misty Loafman, general manager of Central Station, said. ?The students all work at a different position each day. It?s a great learning experience. The food is really good, and there?s no tax on it. We also have lattes, coffee, two different kinds of desserts, and more.?
While the layout remained generally the same from the semester, a small bar adds more seating space. The new gray counter tops replaced the old wooden counter tops.
?We remodeled Central Station, and still doing more remodeling. It?s still the same size, but we have new countertops. We have new students every year. It?s good, healthy food,? Loafman said, before returning to observing the operation of the station.
Two students were seated not far from the counter, busy in conversation over two sandwiches, while another two were getting ready to present their empty plates to the staff and move on with their day. The seated students are both nontraditional students majoring in dietetics and going back for their second bachelor?s degree.
?I love the countertops and the new look of it. It?s not as dated,? Laura Scheihing, one of the seated students, said.
?The new bar looks really inviting. I like it. It?s a really updated look, more inviting, more college-y,? her companion, Katy Soper, added.
The food and drink enticed the patrons. The sweet aroma of pastries and smoothies mixed with the more tart smell of coffee and salad dressings.
?Mainly, everything is made the day of. It?s usually started at seven or eight, and that?s what brings people in. You can smell the food going to class,? Tricia Dye, a junior who was working the counter, said.
?We have a chicken salad sandwich. It has grapes, celery, green onions and mayonnaise on some honey wheat bread. For salads we have spinach strawberry salad with raspberry vinaigrette , with mushrooms and bacon bits as well. I made the chicken salad last night and help finish everything this morning,? Rochelle Plummer, a graduate student and one of the production employees in the back, said.
Dye explained the roles of students in Central Station.
?Today I was business manager, which basically means I was in charge of the cash register, and that?s the only thing I do. For sanitary reasons, I can?t touch any of the food or make any of the drinks. [Students working the counter] are called hops, but they just stand behind the bar and take your orders and make drinks. And then there?s the production employees. They?re in the back, in the kitchen, preparing the food,? Dye said.
?Then there?s the production manager. It?s a big deal. That?s your day. You have to come up with the menu, you have to assign the parts, and all the stuff like that,? Dye finished.
Dietetics is the study of nutrition as it relates to health. The students each explained their decision to major in dietitics.
?I was a teacher, and I was extremely overweight, as a matter of fact. And I was in a class with some kids that were pretty overweight too. We did a challenge, to lose weight, and the kids and I really took to that. I thought, this is really important work, and it?s really important to educate [kids] about health,? Scheihing said.
?I?ve always been interested in it and I?ve had some food issues,? Soper said. ?As I?ve gotten older, and had a son, I realized I needed to get healthy. I was always athletic, and I really got back to that.?
?Growing up I didn?t really know what I wanted to major in. I?ve always had questions of ?What was good for you, what was bad for you?, and so when I got to college, my freshman year, I found out about their program. I heard it was good and it interested me, and so far I?ve liked it a lot,? Dye stated.
?I like knowing where food goes in the body and all that kind of stuff,? Plummer explained.
Source: http://uco360.com/news/central-station-open-for-business/
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