{"id":4821,"date":"2019-11-09T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bracketyackrc.wpengine.com\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2019-11-22T01:36:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T01:36:49","slug":"commons-staff-spotlight-chef-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=4821","title":{"rendered":"Commons Staff Spotlight: Chef Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Carey Linkous<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you ever wonder who makes the food that you eat in Commons? Who is behind the scenes doing all of the work? This week I got to meet Chef Lane Downing, who is extremely instrumental in making sure that all Roanoke College students have fresh food options.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chef Lane is the morning chef in Commons. He arrives at 6:00am each morning and is preparing meals by 6:15am. He\u2019s been at RC for 20 years and he told me that he loves it. Talking about the staff in Commons, he says, \u201cWe\u2019re probably the best kept secret in the Roanoke Valley. We\u2019ve got a lot of great talent here, a lot of culinary talent from the top down\u2026 We don\u2019t just slap food together; we take a lot of pride in it. I don\u2019t know how well documented we are, but we are a good working team. I\u2019ve been in this business a long time and this is still one of the best places I\u2019ve ever been.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Chef Lane\u2019s clear love of RC was clear while I spoke with him. He seemed to\u00a0 be sincerely happy to be doing what he was doing, and as a student, that was exciting to see.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chef Lane says that his favorite days in Commons are Mondays. This is interesting to me because I know that personally, for me, Mondays can sometimes be the worst day of the week. \u201cWe usually know that we\u2019re going to be busy,\u201d he told me. Chef Lane is often working behind the scenes preparing our meals for us and his work has such an impact on so many of the RC students.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Concluding my interview with him, I asked one final question about how he had seen Commons change over the years. \u201cI think [the change] is for the good,\u201d he said, \u201cWe\u2019ve kept up with trends, we try to keep changing as time goes on. Tastes change, kids like different things. We\u2019ve done a lot of menu changes in the past 20 years. It\u2019s constantly evolving, but that\u2019s a nice challenge for us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Talking to Chef Lane reminded me just how much the RC community and staff truly do care about the students. Chef Lane\u2019s passion and love of culinary arts was inspiring to me. I can only hope that each student here can find a career one day that we love the same way that Chef Lane loves his job.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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