Table Service Restaurant Unit: BBQ Style!

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Three times a year, the LABBB Transition Program focuses on restaurant skills at various table service establishments. Over the past few years, we visited a wide variety of table service restaurants, such as The 99, Cambridge Common and Johnny Rockets. All of these restaurants were very good, however after many class discussions, we realized that we have not been listening to our students. We talk about food all of the time in class and our students have such a great amount of culinary knowledge and interest in trying new things. Yet, our restaurant choices have not reflected their vision. Additionally, our students come from various cultural backgrounds with fantastic dishes that are prepared in their home. So, the time has come for our curriculum to match our students cultural background and vision! 

With this in mind, our second restaurant trip focused on our student’s vision. So, we explored BBQ at Redbones in Davis Square. After learning BBQ menu vocabulary, (pulled, slaw, plates, hush puppies) and continued our focus on independently splitting the bill, we made our way to Redbones via public transportation. 

After a lot of preparation by the staff, we are always concerned about how our students liked the activity. Upon finishing our meal I wanted to know if it was all worth while, so I made my way over to one of the student tables and I asked how it was. The one phrase that signifies someone’s pleasure after a meal was belted out, “I’m so full!” 

That one phrase let me know that we have now begun to listen to our students. I wonder where our third restaurant trip will take us?