Favorite Foods during Build Process

[Dan2081]

coffee.... lots of coffee

[IBdrummer]

I wish we had an In N Out burger or Chipotle around us =/
but we always go to Odyssey Pizza (local restaurant) every friday during build season as a team tradition

[ATannahill]

Big places around us are Subway, KFC, Wendy's, McDonalds and Taco Bell. I could tell stories about the last one.

[Wayne Doenges]

Pizza and Dew

[pheadxdll]

We usually pick up some burgers from Sonic on the way to the shop. yummm

[Kims Robot]

Sounds like a lot of teams do the same as us... our parents provide a meal or two during the build season, so we get dinners 5 nights a week, and lunches on weekends.

My favorite so far from the parents is probably the full cold turkey dinner that we had last year, or the Dinosaur BBQ that one of our new parents brought this year! But we have had so many amazing meals its hard to keep track!

Last night I had easy mac at about 11:30 when I got hungry again and was working on our Team's engineering notebooks/wiki at the school.

And every year our team celebrates Ice Cream for Breakfast Day on the first saturday in february. We have also started making it backwards day as of the last two years, and my husband and I bring "Breakfast for Dinner" and we cook waffles, pancakes, eggs and bacon right in the back room of our computer lab!! Its tons of fun and we've even had a few teams "crash" our dinner!

[WhiteShadow1474]

Can anybody say 5 dollar foot long?

[wooodman4449]

Originally Posted by WhiteShadow1474

Can anybody say 5 dollar foot long?

how about $5 for a whole pizza?

[The Megan 2207]

Vending machine drinks started to get very expensive in our school, then Coke decided they were making everyone fat and couldn't sell anything with sugar or caffeine in schools. We used to rely on the vending machines for drinks during build season, but since there is no sugar or caffeine in them, we had a problem. Fortunately, we found a solution!

We got a large mini-fridge from the older brother of one of our team members. We (by "we" I mean "I") had to wash it with bleach 3 times because there was some sort of science experiment growing in it, but we decided that almost makes it better than buying a new mini-fridge. We keep it stocked up with generic pop (or soda, for you non-Minnesotans) from our local Cub Foods (go SuperChill!). We even have a punch card system for it.

We worked out all of the details so that we get pop for 1/3 the cost of the vending machine drinks AND the team gets profit!

Now we should do the same thing with snacks... Hmm...

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by The Megan 2207

We even have a punch card system for it.

How does the punch card system work?
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Science experiments in the refrigerator are underrated. kid, I kid, honest...

[The Megan 2207]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

How does the punch card system work?
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Science experiments in the refrigerator are underrated. kid, I kid, honest...

We get 12-packs of the pop for $2.50 and we get some juice for those who don't like or can't drink pop. Anyone who wants to join the "Pop Club" pays $10 for the first punch card, then $5 for each card after that. Each punch card is worth 20 items. We calculated the profit per punch card (based on pop, the juice is a little more expensive) and it came out to somewhere around 80 cents per punch card, plus $5 for the first card (we were originally going to have to buy a mini-fridge). Also, we have everyone crush their cans when they've finished and we collect them. When the price of aluminum goes up a bit, we're going to take all the cans from the season- plus the cans that some of the students collect at home- and bring them to a local recycling center.

It's working really well. I think we have about 10 students and a couple mentors involved. It doesn't generate a ton of profit, but any money we can get is good, plus we all save money with the punch cards!

[Sunbun]

Mountain Dew and cup noodles.

FIRST: Showing high school students the college experience. Woo.

Also, I second the In-n-Out, but we also get food from L&L's Hawaiian BBQ and Chipotle a lot too.

[TotalChaos]

Originally Posted by wooodman4449

how about $5 for a whole pizza?

Seconded!

- Austin

[ZakuAce]

Originally Posted by wooodman4449

how about $5 for a whole pizza?

Its called Pizza Hut Pizza Mia

Since we have some member that have to eat half a pizza (like me ) we can pig out and still afford it!

[amariealbrecht]

The Robettes like to bake for each other for sure...cookies and brownies and last saturday we had huge birthday cupcakes for one of our mentors...!