Meal Time Success!

Meal Time Success!

Wash Hands at Casa de Pepe. 

Line up at the hallway near the dish pit OR by the Front Doors. The Lodge Fairy will let you know where to wait! 

The Lodge Fairy will open the doors when the kitchen is ready for Campers to be in the Lodge. 

Find Your TABLE - SAME TABLE EACH MEAL - with your Troop.  

Stand Together - to sing "Thanks" together, then seated. 

Then, we'll get instructions from Kitchen Staff for picking up our Food. 

• The Lodge Fairy will excuse Tables to get in line to get their food. 

Before you get seconds from the Kitchen, see if there is more at your table or another table.

During the meal campers eat and talk. 

• All campers should stay at their tables until the end of the meal. 

At some point, Someone will Share the A-Words!

• • Iris to start with Program Instructions

  • Anyone else from Director Team

  • Instructions for cleaning up

  • Next activity or event

Remember to Practice Good Manners to help everyone be successful! 

• Take a what you will eat (take a serving and go back and get more!)

• Chew with lips closed.

• Finish chewing and then talk. 

• Keep a calm body. 

• Stay seated while you are eating. 

• Keep your cup above your plate and away from elbows. 

• Stay at your table until your table mates are complete. 

• Practice making friends with your table mates by asking questions to get to know them. 

Announcements during Meal Time by Camp Leadership Team. (Avoid saying the A-Word, to avoid singing the song!) 

When you are finished eating:

• Stay seated until all of your Girl Scout Friends are finished.

• Scrape all of your dishes into the Coffee Can using the rubber spatula. This makes it easy for our dishwashers.

• Stack your dishes in an organized way, and bring them to the dish pit crew.

• Wipe off Tables

• Wipe off Benches

• Set Benches on top of CLEAN (not sticky!) tables

• Sweep under your table area

• Raise Hand for the Lodge Fairy to Dismiss your Table

• Clean up after meal: 

  • Everyone at the table passes plates and cups down to the "foot" of the table (adult sitting at the end of the table on the dish pit side of the lodge)

  • The person at the foot of the table combines the contents of drinks into as few cups as possible and scrapes all dishes into scrape buckets (large coffee cans with spatulas - Kirby should have these)

  • Everyone at the table stacks silverware on one plate

  • One all dished are scraped tables, tables identify 2 campers and at least one adult to stay and clean. The rest of the table may leave the lodge.

  • The 2 campers and 1 adult bring the scraped dishes and silverware to the table outside the dish pit and stack them with similar dishes. Silverware goes in a bus tub. Drinks get dumped in the sinks in the dish pit or one large bucket on the table. Scrape buckets get emptied into the trash can and empty buckets are stacked under the table. 

  • They can then wipe down tables and benches and sweep under their tables.

  • The lodge ferry will dismiss tables once they are completely cleaned.