Daily Blog #6

This past week of the Ho’oulu ia Kamehameha project we have made much progress. After interviewing with Gordon Morris, Director of Food and Nutrition Services, we were able to gather much information. Our main goal was to help relieve the congested lunch lines. But as we interviewed Mr. Morris, we came across many problems that he had in mind. His main problem was the seating arrangements. Originally, students would have to get their lunch from what is now the pasta and sandwich bar. However, the lunch workers were not able to accommodate the sudden surge of students. So, to relieve that problem, we have our lunch lines today. But, by moving the lunch lines to the dining room of Akahi, minimized the amount of seating. Mr. Morris left that problem aside and tended to other problems such as the overflow of food waste. So we came up with the idea of “picnic benches” to help maximize the seating arrangement. Hopefully, by introducing a different setup of tables will help the seating arrangement. We also talked with Mr. Morris about trying to have the students dump their napkins into a specific container before putting their trays on the conveyor belt. As you can see in the picture above, Mr. Morris had his workers put out bins so students could dump their napkins in its respective bins.