Or maybe you can hold out for Ritchie Cunninghamburgers and Fonzie s French Fries. All the above and more are featured on upcoming menus at The Club at College Inn, a training ground for students in the University of North Texas hospitality management program. Each student gets a taste of restaurant work, form serving meals in the dining area to cleaning the kitchen. Cynthia Simons, general manager and lecturer, said all the students stay busy throughout the day, and often come in the night before to prepare for the next day s luncheon. The program features two courses dining room service and management and the quantity food production and management course.
Students start out in the dining room and move into the kitchen in their junior and senior years.
Mr. Ellis, who graduated form the UNT program, said students plan the menu, do the prep work and clean the kitchen. Even though the restaurant is open only Mondays, Wednesday s and Friday s, students put in a lot of hours. That s the kind of schedule Jessica Foret keeps, in addition to taking a 15-hour course load and working full time at a local hotel. She served as kitchen manager on Monday, preparing recipes and making sure the meal stayed within budget, as well as assigning duties to the other students working in the kitchen. Ms. Foret plans a career in food and beverage management, and would eventually like to go to culinary school.