The pandemic taught us the importance of having contingency plans to keep our community whole in a crisis. Of course, the hope is they will never be needed. Yet, Covid combined with a staggering workforce shortage, has brought us to a painful place. As I write this, 19 staff are out with confirmed Covid positives or serious symptoms. In addition, many need to stay home with children who are positive or home due to exposures.
Tag: dining services
Town Hall Recap – February 2020
The next Town Hall will be at 2:00PM in the Life Center on Wednesday, March 4th. See you there!
Last Chance to Purchase Labor Day Tickets!
Monday, September 2nd, 11AM-2PM; Reservations Required. Tickets are $12 each, available at the Plaza Bistro!
Saying Goodbye
It is with a heavy heart that I share with you that we lost one of our own last week, Melissa Buljubasic.
Food Drive for National Nutrition Month
The Dining Services Department invites both residents and staff to participate in this food drive again this year to help KOS to stock food pantries on school campuses. Food collection boxes will be located around the Campus from March 7th to March 28th.
Buckwald’s Sunday Morning Dining Experience is Moving
One of our greatest responsibilities as staff serving you is to be the best stewards possible of our resources. Every few months we analyze our systems and costs looking for inefficiencies and waste. If discovered, we aim to take immediate action to quickly minimize its impact. We have watched for some time the lower participation in our Sunday dining option at Buckwald’s Arizona Grille. In that the low attendance simply does not justify the labor and food costs, we have made the decision to realign our Sunday experience Campus-wide. Beginning in March, we will close Buckwald’s on Sundays, but Sundays will still be offering you great options.
Our intention is to continue a once-monthly Sunday Brunch in Elaine’s Fine Dining. The new design will not include a buffet, but rather a delicious menu enticing you to want to bring friends and family for this special experience. Should we see this become as popular as we believe it will be, we will expand the number of Sundays. If the day comes that we are busting at the seams for Sunday brunch, we will absolutely revisit expanding back to Buckwald’s. Again, our goal is to balance costs with the greatest dining experiences possible.
We will be closed effective March 10, 2019 on Sundays.
I am grateful to our Dining Services Team for their continuous commitment to providing the best dining experiences and options with the most efficient use of our resources.
Rev. David W. Ragan, Senior Vice President of Resident Services
Joe Kane, Director of Dining Services
New Elaine’s Fine Dining Menu Offers Residents More Variety
We are excited to announce that, on January 31st, we will be migrating to a 52-week menu in Elaine’s Fine Dining to continue our commitment to variety.
Elaine’s format will have new and exciting offerings weekly and will be part of your Roadrunner each Monday. We will have changing options in seafood, appetizer, salad, soup, chicken, pork and others while maintaining our most popular dishes on our weekly menu.
We are very excited to bring this new option to you and, hopefully, you will come to Elaine’s Fine Dining and experience a night out, away from the bustle of our other venues, in a quiet, sophisticated atmosphere providing excellent food and service and featuring a new drink menu to add to the variety.
The Bistro moved to a 52-week menu a couple of months ago and has been very successful in bringing you variety with menu changes on a weekly basis. In the past, we changed our menus twice a year and added variety by offering multiple specials in each venue. These specials were advertised weekly in the Roadrunner and quickly became the only options you saw in our venues. Many people said to me, “Joe, why do we only have these choices available to us” when indeed, there was an entire menu to choose from on top of the advertised specials. Moving forward, we will create all of our menus on a 52 week menu platform and provide you exceptional variety of choice, not only on the menu selections but make each venue varied and make your choice of where to dine much harder for you. This is a good thing, right?
We look forward to this change as much as you do and cannot wait to hear your reactions about the variety offered in our restaurants.*