in house cooks? - Page 2

dzsaigirl · #16 01-19-2002, 07:48 PM

That is a really good price per month since it includes food! But grilled cheese and spaghettios? Sick...a tossed salad would have been cheaper and would have tasted better! Anyway, at my school, the sororities and fraternities do not have cooks because the groups that have houses only house like 10 or fewer people. I lived in the ATO house at SMU after they got kicked off campus. The university opened it up to sophomores and up who had to interview for a spot and then if you got in, you had to do 30 hours of community service per semester (not hard). We had the restaurant style kitchen with the giant fridges and freezers and giant food prep area, pantry, ultra-fast diswasher (the kind that takes like one minute!). But we did not have a cook. It was nice though 'cause we could buy our own food and cook whatever we wanted and then there was some food (not a lot) that was for general house use, like condiments, pancake mix, popcorn, crackers, etc. The fraternities and sororities there had cooks. I sort of wish I had been in DZ at a school that had cooks and huge houses, but oh well! I think I'll live

AlphaSigLana · #17 01-19-2002, 11:14 PM

Believe me I that isn't even the worst meal I think her french fry casserole would qualify. Half the time the french frys are still cold. It 's french frys with meat and chesse on top. A lot of girls go out to eat at least 3 times a wk.

ladybug1116 · #18 01-20-2002, 05:07 AM

Yuck....AlphaSigLana I'm sorry that you all have such an awful cook. We were always very lucky. Plus we had a committee (only like 1 or 2 people) that was called "Mom and Meals" They informally got imput from all of us on what we would like for lunch and dinner each week. They would make up sample meal plans and then submit them to "mom" who would ultimately have the final say. We also had a full salad bar at lunch and dinner in case you didn't like what was being served. Has your chapter approached your house corporation or advisor about finding a new cook?? It sounds like one is in order.

AlphaSigLana · #19 01-20-2002, 02:12 PM

Well this is the 3rd cook our house has had in a yr. She is very open to suggestions. WEll we had a comment card, but people wrote really rude things. Now that I am house manager I will take girls complaints and tell DAnielle, but no one has said to me to tell her to stop cooking such and such a meal. She did submit a list of all the foods she cooked beforehand. Plus she only gets $350 to spend a wk on 20 girls. Actualy housing corp just decided in $350 she used to only be able to spend $320. SO she can't make shrimp etc. WE get cheap fatty food.

KillarneyRose · #20 01-20-2002, 05:15 PM

The idea of having an in-house cook is so exotic to me! We had our DZ table in the cafeteria and the closest we had to in-house cooking was when we'd all gather in the informal living room and share each other's Ramen Noodles or Kraft Mac and Cheese!

dzsaigirl · #21 01-20-2002, 05:53 PM

KillarneyRose, it sounds like we had the same DZ house! Yeah, it is more like let's order pizza or everyone bring some food over...before we got rid of our house we did that kind of stuff. And then we had a pantry that was half for the girls in the house who bought their personal groceries and half for chips, crackers, cokes, and other snackies that were for the chapter when we would come in between classes and stuff. Of course, I am on a mostly commuter campus, so it's a different ballgame down here than it was for the sororities that I saw at SMU (my pre-greek days). I didn't rush there but other than living in an ex-fraternity house, I did get to see the inside of a sorority house because one of the girls wanted to interview me for a newspaper article and asked me to go over there...that was highly illegal since it was during the first semester of my freshman year and they have spring formal rush! It was on the DL, but I wasn't rushing there anyway. I think it was a secret ploy to try to get me to go through, but who knows...oh...I digress...I hope one day I will have daughters and they will be in a sorority where there is yummy food

dzsaigirl · #22 01-20-2002, 06:00 PM

Oh yeah, I forgot. After we got rid of our house (landlord decided to sell so we couldn't renew the lease, plus we are building a greek row) I got an apartment and lived with one of my sisters and another sister lived a few apartments down. I cooked dinner on Monday nights after chapter meeting for everyone in my family line in the sorority (direct decendants of my big) which is about 15-20 people. That was always fun. We called them family dinners. I would make salad and spaghetti or tacos or some other easy thing and someone would bring bread or dessert and drinks or whatever. We stopped having them when I moved out of the apartment though

AlphaSigLana · #23 01-20-2002, 07:12 PM

I do feel bad for our cook since she cooks for twenty girls and often many of htem sign up but don't eat- what a waste. There is a menu so everyone knows what the meal is. Our cook even does late plates so if you aren't home when meals are served you are sure to get one. It would suck not to have a cook bc there are some girls in the house who like to eat other people's food. It really pissed me off when i lived in the house over break with a few other girls and a certain sister would never buy food and bitch that their wasn't food in the house(rent was cheaper over break bc we didn't have a cook - she knew beforehand food was on us). I spent money on food and made my own meals with one of my roommates(who never chipped in equally). My roommate would invite her to eat the food I bought! Did this girl ever cook- no! A cook saves me grief. Maybe I am just selfish.

Betarulz! · #24 01-21-2002, 03:17 AM

All the houses at Nebraska have cooks.

Some are better than others. Ours is awesome, and I love her to death. All the brothers who live in the house get meals as part of their live in fees. Those who live out have two options - either all meals or only monday night formal dinners. I think most choose all meals b/c then they don't have to pay for fast food. I'm not sure about my pledge brothers who live in the dorms. I think that they have plans for both, but only the cheapest dorm one.

Considering that room and board for the house, for pledges is only 90 dollars more than it would be for the dorms, and out of that we get social activities, supplies like pledge manual, badge adn the like, it's obviously more economical to be in the house. After the first semester the house bill is only about 2000 dollars a semester so in the end it adds up to be about 300 dollars cheaper than the dorms.

Finally, the food we have is fantastic, but not all the houses have such a good cook. So we are really lucky. For me, the food is a lot more regular and better than the food I have at home so I enjoy it.

Optimist Prime · #25 01-21-2002, 04:56 PM

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Originally posted by Betarulz!
All the houses at Nebraska have cooks.

Some are better than others. Ours is awesome, and I love her to death. All the brothers who live in the house get meals as part of their live in fees. Those who live out have two options - either all meals or only monday night formal dinners. I think most choose all meals b/c then they don't have to pay for fast food. I'm not sure about my pledge brothers who live in the dorms. I think that they have plans for both, but only the cheapest dorm one.

Considering that room and board for the house, for pledges is only 90 dollars more than it would be for the dorms, and out of that we get social activities, supplies like pledge manual, badge adn the like, it's obviously more economical to be in the house. After the first semester the house bill is only about 2000 dollars a semester so in the end it adds up to be about 300 dollars cheaper than the dorms.

Finally, the food we have is fantastic, but not all the houses have such a good cook. So we are really lucky. For me, the food is a lot more regular and better than the food I have at home so I enjoy it.

Do you mean that pledges can live in the house? Would you mind explaing how that works?

Corbin Dallas · #26 01-22-2002, 01:24 AM

We have our own cook. She works from about 9:30 am to 3:30pm. Her husband was our milkman for several years, and is still friends with many guys at the house. She cooks lunch 5 times a week and dinner 4 times a week. She also orders food for us on the weekends. Our entire meal plan is only $200 a quarter, and is open kitchen basically. All in house guys are on it, and the out of house guys just sign up on a sign up sheet for snacks and meals, which vary from $.50 to $2.00 for snacks and dinner respectively.

Also, we have AM's (Pledges to most Frats) living in house, 4 of them this year. It works out fine. When we practice for Initiation, they aren't allowed near where we practice. Also, when we have Initiation, the house is closed to non-brothers, so AM's have to leave the house early.

Optimist Prime · #27 01-22-2002, 03:49 PM

oh...so after rush they just move out of the dorms??

ROWDYsister · #28 05-18-2002, 07:07 PM

We've got a two cooks, one in charge of lunch and one in charge of dinner. Neither of them live with us. We've also got a dozen busboys that rotate shifts. They're usually frat guys, so it's funny when I see them outside of the house and inadvetently embarrass them by exclaiming, "Omigod! It's my busboy!" They just smile and exclaim back, "Omigod! It's my sorority girl!" My non-Greek friends think we're spoiled, but how else are that many girls supposed to get their food? If we had walkthroughs every night, it would be pandemonium.