I mentioned that we were having a big conference on campus - it started on Friday, October 11, and continued through Tuesday, October 15, skipping Sunday (there was a plenary session on Sunday evening, but that was the only event scheduled on that day). I was involved primarily in serving at the dining hall = we served meals for the conference attendees on Friday evening, Saturday lunch and supper, Monday lunch and supper, and Tuesday lunch. Tuesday night there was a banquet at a hotel off campus. We normally serve ~100 people (sometimes more, sometimes less) on Monday-Friday lunchtime. For the conference, we were serving 350 additional. Some of the food was taken to another site on campus where we anticipated about 100 people to eat, so we had about 250 coming through our dining line, in addition to our regular customers on Monday and Tuesday lunch. It was "interesting"! We did not offer as many options as we would normally provide to our customers (it was a "fixed plate" meal unless people had food allergies). We would be super, super busy for 45 minutes, and then have just a few more come in through the remaining half hour that we were open. The nice thing is that it makes the time go really fast!
On Wednesday after the conference, we were getting some of the badge sleeves and lanyards into the Information and Welcome Center so they can be reused:
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| A sampling of some of the different lanyard colors... |
Each lanyard color had a meaning - the only one I know for sure was yellow, because that was for volunteer. That meant that we had not paid for the conference, and we weren't to have a seat in sessions unless all the paying attendees were seated. I had a yellow lanyard.
We'll have plenty of badge sleeves and lanyards for a while!
I think the conference went well... and I think we're all glad it is finished!
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