Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Please help us figure out..........

[Fleck (foam4u]

At Jackson Place Seattle we have 5 meals/week (yes, really) and our Kitchen
Team (6 people) schedules 4 weeks ahead. Mon-Wed is a planned meal and Thurs
is "Creativity" using leftovers plus there's dessert. And there is either a
Saturday breakfast (before workdays) or a Sunday dinner (after biz
meetings).

There are 2 cooks (1 lead & 1 sous), 1 early cleaner & 1 late cleaner.
Everyone who eats is expected to work at least 2 shifts/cycle. It works like
this:

1. Everyone signs up for work shifts. Lead cook submits the meal they want
to cook (always a vegetarian meal available but not neccesarily a meat dish
available)
2. Everyone signs up for the meals they want to eat
3. The lead cook submits a list of ingredients based on how many people have
signed up for that meal plus 3-4 extra.
4. The kitchen team compiles the ingredients list and orders in bulk (as
much as possible) and arranges for someone to pick up last minute
ingredients or unusual things.
The due dates for the above schedule are set in stone so Kitchen team
members aren't abused by late/lazy/forgetful people. If cooks don't get
their act together the meal is dropped (or they can buy all their own food!)

We get dry goods once/month and fresh once/week delivered. We have a large
commercial fridge and smaller stand-up freezer. Cooks start cooking about
3:30 for a 6:30 dinner. First cleaner comes in at 6 to set up and clean
dirty cooking dishes and does some after dinner cleaning. 2nd cleaner
cleaner starts after dinner (7:30ish) and finishes up. We put together late
plates for signed-up people who can't make it to dinner that go in the
fridge labelled. EVERYTHING (foodwise) is labelled for month, day, year.
Either when it went in the fridge or for what day it's to be used. People
also donate food from their gardens occasionally.

We have organic as much as possible. Usual number of people at dinner is
about 30. We charge $3/adult & $1/kid. We have a sign-in sheet to either add
or subtract your name for that meal. You must check with the cook before you
add. We eat very well!
Hope this helps.
Anne at JPC Seattle


-----Original Message-----
From: Deanna Stepp [mailto:deanna [at] efn.org]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 7:47 AM
To: cohousing
Subject: [C-L]_ Please help us figure out..........


the best way to organize the cooking duties.  Yes, Eugene, Oregon cohousing
is going !! and currently we're talking about how we want to organize the
cooking of the community meals.  And we don't want to reinvent the wheel, so
if you think that your system works well, please give us your advice.
Thanks very much.
Deanna Stepp
541-343-2310
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