in house cooks?

skip101 · #1 01-17-2002, 02:02 PM

Do any of your chapters have a cook?
How many members do you have on your in house meal plan?
How is the price compared to an on campus meal plan?
How is the food?

twinstars · #2 01-17-2002, 02:24 PM

Do any of your chapters have a cook?

Each of the sororities on my campus has a big kitchen and paid employees who cook for us.

How many members do you have on your in house meal plan?

Everyone in a sorority (including those who don't live in the house) is required to eat lunch at their house on weekdays, plus chapter dinner once a week. That is the minimum required plan. If you wanted to, you could sign up to eat more weeknight dinners at the house, but that plan is only "required" for in-house girls.

How is the price compared to an on campus meal plan?

I think the sorority meal plans are somewhat more expensive per meal than if you ate in the dining hall.

How is the food?

The food is very decent, at least comparable with what is served in the dining hall, plus you can put in requests if you want something new. Each house has some discretion over what is served.

#3 01-17-2002, 02:58 PM

every sorority at UM has a cook with busboys. I think the fraternities have cooks come in occasionally, dunno.

All the girls are on this plan because its part of the rent. I think the only day to have dinner thats mandatory is Sunday (?).

Living in a sorority or fraternity house is always chepaer then living at the dorms and the food is 100X better. (Our house mom cooked alot for the chapter before we got another cook)

AchtungBaby80 · #4 01-17-2002, 03:49 PM

All the sororities on this campus who have houses have cooks. Some are better than others. My sorority seems to have a cook problem no matter what--we've had about seven different ones in the past year!

Everyone living in the house (40 girls) pays to eat dinner and supper here, but it isn't a separate part of our bill. We are just charged one amount that covers everything (about $1800 per semester), so I don't know how much it costs. We aren't required to eat the food we pay for, though. I try to eat as often as I can, but many times I have classes so I miss dinner and then supper might be something really gross, who knows? We don't have any say in the making of the menu.

As for the food itself, it's generally better than the cafeterias on campus. Each cook we've had did things their own way, so the food varied depending on who cooked it. I guess it's all right...like I said, it's better than cafeteria food, but it sure ain't like my mom's! (Case in point: Night before last, the fried chicken was not done...it was still pink inside, and one of my friends got sick. Not good!)

ZTAngel · #5 01-17-2002, 04:27 PM

We have an in-house cook. We have 10 meals a week (Monday- Friday, lunch and dinner). Every sister is on the house meal plan. It is tacked onto our dues. It ends up being cheaper to be on the ZTA meal plan. If you add up all the meals you get for the semester and divide it by the amount owed for food, it ends up being about $3 per meal. Not bad! And the food is great. There's a lot of variety in the menu. It's great because I eat things there that I wouldn't normally eat if I had to cook for myself (such as stuffed chicken, fajitas, etc.)

Optimist Prime · #6 01-17-2002, 04:49 PM

what is the difference between dinner and supper?

SigkapAlumWSU · #7 01-17-2002, 07:16 PM

We had our own cook, and so do most of the sororities. We lucked out though. Our cook was a former gourmet cook/restaurant owner in town. I miss his cooking sooo much!!

His wife (also a cook) worked at one of the houses just up the street, so they would trade cooking tips and plans with each other. We got to have a weekly menu and if there was something we wanted, you just asked him if it was possible. I don't know but I'm pretty sure that the meal was included in the housebill.

GammaPhiBabe · #8 01-17-2002, 07:39 PM

All of the sorority/fraternity houses on our campus had a kitchen staff and a janitorial staff. (In our house, the janitorial staff consisted of two maids...then, in the kitchen we had one lady who was the main cook, & she had 2 assistants. One of the assistants was a man who also did some handywork around the house and did things like take out the trash, etc.)
We were offered 3 meals a day, 5-6 days a week. The cooks also made food for our pre-football-game brunches and homecoming and parents day lunches (and any other special events we asked them to cater). The meals were included in the house bill. Breakfast was optional for people who lived off campus. Everyone paid for lunch & supper whether they ate there or not. If you had a class or something at night, you could request a "late plate" and the cooks would make you a take-out version of that night's dinner in one of those divided styrofoam plates and write your name on it.

We also had a fridge downstairs that was open to everyone and had juice, tea, milk, etc. and a cabinet with cereal, pop tarts, granola bars and the like. Plus, the cooks would often make little treats for us and leave them in the dining room. The food was pretty good and there was a nice variety. I've heard it's even better now because there's a new housemother and a new cook. I think the cost was comparable to the school meal plan.

33girl · #9 01-17-2002, 10:12 PM

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Originally posted by BrownEyedGirl
I think she's referring to dinner as the lunchtime meal and supper as the evening meal. Just a guess.

Yes that's right. My dad tells me I'm being "fancy" when I call the evening meal dinner - whatever!

I have a dumb question - do the cooks live in? What do you do with live in staff during rituals if they aren't members? All this is completely foreign to me. The closest we got to having a cook in the house is when a sister made popcorn and shared it.

ladybug1116 · #10 01-18-2002, 01:22 AM

My experience was almost identical to GammaPhiBabe's (meal plan and house help). We also had something called the transient plan. You could only be on this for 2 semesters the whole time you were in college though...it included 5 meals a week plus Sunday dinner. Everyone had to be on some kind of meal plan whether or not you lived in the house.
Our hired help did not live in the house. Our house mom obviously lived there though, but she was not an initiated Phi Mu. Whenever we had ritual she would just leave the house and go to her family's (they lived in town) while it was going on.

GammaPhiBabe · #11 01-18-2002, 10:53 AM

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Originally posted by 33girl

I have a dumb question - do the cooks live in? What do you do with live in staff during rituals if they aren't members? All this is completely foreign to me.

Our staff left after the evening meal and came back in the mornings. We didn't have a place in the house for them to live and, anyway, they all had families to go home to. It was just a day job to them...they were all older people.
Our housemother lived in the house. She had a suite that was on the lower level of the house (our rooms were upstairs). She did not take part in our ritual events, but either stayed in her room or left the house. I think the current housemother was a Sigma Kappa (SK is no longer on our campus).

dgbibo · #12 01-18-2002, 01:32 PM

Sig Eps are the only House to have a cook at Illinois State out of 30 fraternities. Its ok food but the main thing is not having to walk to the cafateria. That shit sucks.

#13 01-18-2002, 03:02 PM

Same at UM, all house staff (cooks, busboys, maids, etc) live in their own houses. LIke Gammaphibabe said our house mom lived in quarters (a really sweet apartment) downstairs while the other rooms where on the second and third floors. Our house mom could participate in rituals because she was an AGD. If they werent then they cant. Our chapter has actually had a house dad in its history.

TriSigmaTX · #14 01-18-2002, 03:33 PM

Do any of your chapters have a cook?
Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas Sigma Sigma Sigma.
We have a cook, Margaret

How many members do you have on your in house meal plan? Everyone pays house bills in and out (they're cheaper if you're out) and food is provided for all meals. 90 women.

How is the price compared to an on campus meal plan? Much cheaper.

How is the food? Food is awesome!

AlphaSigLana · #15 01-19-2002, 05:41 PM

I live in a sorority house. I know a lot of sororities on other campuses live in dorms so I don't know the price comparison. I have a cook. She cooks Sunday dinner, M_TH lunch and dinner, and Friday lunch. She is an okay cook. The food is decent. My rent a month is $425 and includes my meals. Teh Sigma Kappas next door have a really good cook apparently he cooks shrimp and steak. They also pay a lot more than we do. Thus we have no hashers bc our cook isn't like Sigma Kappas. CAse in point Friday lunch was grilled cheese and spaghettios.